Tottenville-Charleston, Staten Island

No neighborhood in this batch carries larger recorded lots than Tottenville-Charleston. The median lot runs 5,000 square feet, and the largest tenth of parcels reach 16,567 square feet or more — both well above what's typical elsewhere on the island. That scale sits alongside a building-class mix of 44% one-family homes, 28% two-family homes, and 10% carrying a vacant classification, the lowest one-family share and among the higher vacant-land shares in this group.

The neighborhood's construction record spans an unusually wide range of eras. A full 24% of buildings predate 1940, while 29% date from 2000 or later — the highest recent-construction share in this batch — and only 10% date from the postwar boom between 1945 and 1975, the lowest such share here. The median recorded construction year is 1990, reflecting that split between an older core and continued recent building.

6% of Tottenville-Charleston's roughly 6,100 tax lots carry federal flood-hazard mapping on the current record. Land-use coding shows 73% of lots under one- and two-family use, 11% recorded vacant, and 7% coded to other uses on file. Residential use covers 75% of lots, supporting 7,402 housing units — a smaller residential share than most other neighborhoods in this batch.

81% of lots on file still have floor-area room to grow, at a median residual of 0.3 FAR. Every recorded structure stays low-rise — a 2-story median, and zero percent exceed 6 floors — and historic-district status doesn't appear on any lot here, a 0% share in the current file. The neighborhood borders Annadale-Huguenot-Prince's Bay-Woodrow and Arden Heights-Rossville; per-lot figures behind the lot-size and construction-era numbers here are available in PearlAudit's records.

The wide construction-era spread here — a substantial prewar share alongside the batch's highest recent-construction share — is unusual among these neighborhoods, most of which cluster more tightly around a single building wave. That pattern, combined with the largest recorded lot sizes in this group and a comparatively modest residential-use share, describes a peninsula neighborhood where large-parcel development has continued over a long stretch of time rather than in one concentrated period. The land-use and building-class figures cited above, together with the floor-area headroom recorded across most parcels, describe a file shaped by building activity spread across a longer span of decades than the single compressed wave visible in several of its neighbors' records, a contrast most visible when the construction-year figures are set side by side.