Todt Hill-Emerson Hill-Lighthouse Hill-Manor Heights, Staten Island

Lot size is the standout figure in Todt Hill-Emerson Hill-Lighthouse Hill-Manor Heights' records. The median recorded lot runs 4,680 square feet, and the largest tenth of parcels reach 13,330 square feet or more — both well above the typical size elsewhere in this part of the island. Flood exposure, by contrast, is minimal: just 2% of the roughly 8,700 tax lots here carry federal Special Flood Hazard Area mapping. That combination of larger parcels sitting mostly outside the mapped floodplain is one of the more distinctive patterns among the hill neighborhoods on this stretch of Staten Island.

The building stock is decisively postwar. The median recorded construction year is 1970, and 58% of buildings on file date from the boom years between 1945 and 1975, well above what's typical in this batch. Only 10% predate 1940 and another 10% date from 2000 or later, so most of what stands went up in a single postwar wave rather than in an older or more recent one. Heights are uniform at a median of 2 stories, with none of the recorded stock rising past 6 floors.

Building-class records lean toward one-family construction: 71% of buildings are classed as one-family homes and 20% as two-family homes, with 6% carrying a vacant classification. Land-use coding is similarly concentrated — 90% of lots fall under one- and two-family use and 6% are recorded vacant, with the remaining 1% coded to other uses on file. Residential use covers 92% of lots, supporting 11,276 housing units. None of the recorded lots carry a historic-district designation — that share sits at 0% in the current registry.

Development headroom runs high here — 89% of lots sit below their district's floor-area allowance, a median shortfall of 0.3 FAR. The neighborhood borders Grasmere-Arrochar-South Beach-Dongan Hills, Great Kills-Eltingville, New Dorp-Midland Beach, New Springville-Willowbrook-Bulls Head-Travis, Oakwood-Richmondtown, Rosebank-Shore Acres-Park Hill, West New Brighton-Silver Lake-Grymes Hill, and Westerleigh-Castleton Corners — a wide ring of neighbors reflecting its central position on the island. PearlAudit's records carry the per-lot detail behind every one of these numbers.

The prevailing district pattern across the neighborhood favors low-rise, large-lot construction over attached rowhouses or apartment buildings, which helps explain why so much floor-area headroom sits unused even as the postwar building wave filled in most of the surrounding hill neighborhoods. Large parcels, a low flood share, and a construction record concentrated in one mid-century era together describe a hillside enclave that has changed only modestly since that wave passed through, with the file showing more capacity on paper than has been built out in practice.