St. George-New Brighton, Staten Island

Age is the throughline in St. George-New Brighton's file: the median recorded building went up in 1920, and 69% of the stock predates 1940, one of the older construction profiles among the neighborhoods covered here. That timeline puts most of the neighborhood's construction ahead of the postwar suburbanization wave that reshaped much of the rest of the borough. Only 7% of buildings are recorded from the 1945-to-1975 postwar boom, and 14% have been recorded since 2000 — a modest but real share of newer construction layered into an otherwise prewar neighborhood. That construction record places the neighborhood among the older, by median year, of the North Shore files gathered here.

Height sets this file apart from most of its neighbors: the median recorded building runs 2.5 stories, and 1% of buildings clear the 6-story mark, the only lots in this profile recorded that tall. Historic-district designation covers 3% of the roughly 2,900 tax lots, the clearest recorded historic-preservation presence in this part of the borough. Together the two figures describe a denser, older core than the low-rise, house-scaled pattern found on the surrounding blocks. No other neighborhood profile in this immediate cluster records either figure at all, which is part of what makes St. George-New Brighton's built environment read as denser and more vertically varied than the surrounding blocks.

Building classes lean one-family at 37%, two-family at 32%, and walk-up multi-family at 9%, with land use recording 69% of lots as one- and two-family residential, 9% multi-family walk-up, and 8% vacant. The building-class order — one-family ahead of two-family, with a meaningful walk-up share — reflects a denser, more varied fabric than the strictly house-scaled pattern typical of Staten Island's outer neighborhoods. Just 1% of lots sit inside a mapped special flood hazard area. Lot sizes run a median of 3,300 square feet, reaching as much as 9,000 square feet among the larger recorded lots. That variety in land use and building class is consistent with a neighborhood that grew up as a denser waterfront gateway rather than a purely residential enclave.

Development headroom covers 72% of lots, with a median residual FAR gap of 0.3 — a narrower margin than in some of the newer-built neighborhoods nearby, on a stretch where a majority of buildings are already old enough to have found their footing under an earlier code. Residential use accounts for 83% of the roughly 2,900 lots, and the file counts 8,844 units within them. St. George-New Brighton borders Tompkinsville-Stapleton-Clifton-Fox Hills to its south and West New Brighton-Silver Lake-Grymes Hill to its west, both bordering files carrying their own construction and flood profiles worth reading alongside the age and height figures recorded here.