Rosebank-Shore Acres-Park Hill, Staten Island

Construction here reads younger than most of the neighborhoods in this file: the median recorded building went up in 1988, with only 28% of the stock predating 1940 and 21% recorded since 2000. The 1945-to-1975 postwar boom accounts for 12% of buildings, a modest showing that suggests most of this neighborhood's growth happened later still, after that wave had already passed through the rest of the borough. It also means a larger share of this neighborhood's built environment has been recorded under more recent code cycles than in most of the surrounding files. That later build-out timeline also helps explain why so little of the recorded stock here falls into the prewar or boom-era categories that dominate elsewhere in the borough. That timeline sets Rosebank-Shore Acres-Park Hill apart from the prewar-heavy fabric recorded in some of its immediate neighbors.

Lots run smaller here than the borough norm: a median of 2,500 square feet, with even the larger recorded lots topping out at just 5,960 square feet, the tightest spread recorded in this group. One-family houses dominate the building-class file at 68%, with two-family buildings adding 18% and a small vacant-land share of 5%. Land use follows the same pattern closely — 86% of lots recorded as one- and two-family residential, 5% vacant, and 2% multi-family walk-up. That combination — smaller parcels, house-scaled classes, minimal commercial or multi-family presence — reads as one of the more uniformly residential footprints in this corner of the borough.

Development headroom is the narrowest recorded in this set: 64% of lots carry floor-area capacity below their district allowance, with a median residual FAR gap of just 0.2. That's consistent with a neighborhood built out more recently and closer to what its zoning already allows. Flood exposure is minor — just 1% of lots sit inside a mapped special flood hazard area — and no lots here carry a historic-district designation on record, an absence in the file rather than a judgment on the area's older pockets.

Residential use covers 91% of the roughly 5,000 lots, and the file counts 9,495 units within them. Four other neighborhoods border this one in the same tax-lot file: Grasmere-Arrochar-South Beach-Dongan Hills, Todt Hill-Emerson Hill-Lighthouse Hill-Manor Heights, Tompkinsville-Stapleton-Clifton-Fox Hills, and West New Brighton-Silver Lake-Grymes Hill, several of which are recorded with a noticeably older median construction year than the 1988 figure here. Reading those files together gives a fuller picture of how construction timing varies block by block across this part of Staten Island.