5 DOB filings on South Avenue · 1 not yet closed
1 more on this buildingStreet record · Staten Island
South Avenue
17 mapped DOB filings publish this street name in the current snapshot. They span New Springville-Willowbrook-Bulls Head-Travis, Mariner's Harbor-Arlington-Graniteville, Mariner'S Harbor-Arlington-Graniteville. 2 changed status in the last 7 days.
What is on this street
The built record of South Avenue
City Planning maps 191 tax lots on South Avenue in Staten Island, 79% of them one and two family homes. The oldest went up in 1899 and the newest in 2025. This describes the street as it stands, not the filings below.
Where 1990s sits in the city’s own timeline
- Tax lots
- 191
- Buildings
- 346
- Homes
- 406
- Typically built
- 1990s
- Typical height
- 2–8 floors
- Built area
- 1,679,908 sq ft
How the lots are used
- One and two family homes151 of 191
- Commercial and office12 of 191
- Vacant land6 of 191
Zoning: R3X, R3-2, M2-1 are the districts covering most of the street. A zoning district sets what may be built, not what is there now.
NYC Department of City Planning · Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO) · 64uk-42ks · read 2026-09-11
Living here
The housing record on South Avenue.
Of the 5 addresses here checked against the city’s open-violation extract, 1 carries at least one — 20% — and 1 carries at least one the city calls immediately hazardous.
- Open violations
- 116
- Immediately hazardous
- 11
- Addresses checked
- 5
The Housing Maintenance Code is about living in a building — heat, hot water, pests, paint — and is a different thing from the Department of Buildings violations elsewhere on this page, which are about building work. The two most common open violations in the whole city are both paperwork, so a high count is a reason to read the classes rather than a verdict. What each class means Counted from the extract accessed Sep 21, 2026.
How to read this street page
A shared street name does not mean a shared project.
These records are grouped by the street name and borough published by DOB. Each address remains an independent filing unless its source record explicitly connects it to another site. Use this page to scan activity along the corridor, then open an individual filing for its exact status, scope and identifiers.
Explore this corridor on the mapSource snapshot accessed Oct 11, 2026. Street grouping is based on the normalized street-name field.








