Tompkinsville-Stapleton-Clifton-Fox Hills, Staten Island

Tompkinsville-Stapleton-Clifton-Fox Hills counts 7,128 residential units across its roughly 3,100 tax lots, the smallest recorded unit base in this group of neighborhoods. Land use here is slightly more varied than the strictly residential pattern found on many surrounding blocks: 72% of lots are one- and two-family residential, but 7% are recorded under mixed residential-and-commercial use and 6% carry a vacant designation. Even with that variation, the neighborhood remains overwhelmingly low-rise and residential in character rather than commercial in any concentrated sense. That mixed-use sliver shows up in daily life as ground-floor storefronts under upper-floor apartments, a pattern the file records but doesn't further describe. That mixed-use presence, however small, distinguishes the neighborhood's land-use file from the almost entirely single-use pattern recorded in several of its immediate neighbors.

Building classes lean one-family at 47%, two-family at 25%, and a small vacant-land share of 6%. The median recorded building here went up in 1931, with 59% of the stock predating 1940 and 17% recorded since 2000 — a meaningfully newer slice than in some of its immediate neighbors. Only 10% of buildings date from the 1945-to-1975 postwar boom, one of the thinner boom-era shares among the neighborhoods on this list. That pace of newer construction held fairly steady rather than spiking in any single decade. Read together, the building-class and construction-year figures describe a neighborhood whose housing stock grew steadily rather than in one concentrated wave.

Flood exposure is minor by federal flood mapping: 3% of lots sit inside a mapped special flood hazard area. Lot sizes run smaller than average, too — a median of 3,000 square feet, with the larger recorded lots reaching 7,625 square feet. Together, the modest flood share and below-average lot sizes describe a compact, inland-leaning slice of the North Shore rather than a waterfront-facing one. Historic-district coverage touches 1% of lots, a small but recorded presence rather than a citywide-scale designation. Neither figure suggests a neighborhood defined by risk or by preservation status so much as by its modest scale and quiet, inland character.

Development headroom covers 71% of lots on record, with a median residual FAR gap of 0.3, and residential use accounts for 84% of the roughly 3,100 lots overall. St. George-New Brighton lies north, Rosebank-Shore Acres-Park Hill south, and West New Brighton-Silver Lake-Grymes Hill west of here — three neighboring files worth reading against these numbers before drawing any conclusion about the wider North Shore from this one alone. Each of those three files carries its own mix of building classes, flood shares, and construction eras worth comparing directly against the numbers recorded here.