New Springville inside a larger statistical area
New Springville appears on the city's list of Community Board 2 neighborhoods, next to Travis. Housing statistics, though, are kept for a larger official unit, the New Springville-Willowbrook-Bulls Head-Travis neighborhood tabulation area, so every tax-lot figure on this page describes that whole area rather than New Springville on its own. The city's rolling sales file tagged 370 sales recorded between September 2025 and August 2026 as New Springville, and every one of them falls inside that official area.
What the tax-lot file counts
For the official New Springville-Willowbrook-Bulls Head-Travis area, the city's tax-lot file (PLUTO) lists 15,410 residential units on 8,034 residential lots. Two-family houses account for 39.8 percent of the units, one-family houses 30.9 percent and condominiums 26.1 percent; walk-ups, three-family buildings and mixed-use lots share the last few percent. By age, 51.9 percent of units date from 1980 or later, 39.0 percent from 1940 through 1979, and 1.9 percent from before 1940. Half the one- and two-family lots have a frontage of 27.5 feet or less.
Lots that narrow tend to carry attached or semi-detached houses. The Census Bureau's structure table for ZIP code area 10314, which spreads well past New Springville, shows roughly 9,900 detached one-unit homes against roughly 10,800 attached ones (ACS 2020-2024, table B25024). A shared party wall carries the job to the property line: the roof valley between two coverings, the flashing where rooflines step, the downspout emptying next door.
In the official New Springville-Willowbrook-Bulls Head-Travis area, condos make up more than a quarter of all units, so many buyers there own an interior while the roof and site drainage belong to an association; read its reserve study and board minutes as closely as the unit.
Two early buildings the city has designated
Asbury Methodist Church stands on Richmond Avenue between Signs Road and Rockland Avenue; its designation report gives it as completed in 1849 and remodeled in 1878 (Landmarks Preservation Commission report LP-0364). The Sylvanus Decker Farm at 435 Richmond Hill Road was built about 1810 and was owned by the Staten Island Historical Society when it was designated (LPC report LP-0369). Neither report names a neighborhood; both sit on blocks the city's sales file labeled New Springville between September 2025 and August 2026.
The sewer question has no local answer on file
No primary source found for this page documents sewer construction, or a past reliance on septic tanks, in New Springville. The Department of Environmental Protection's Bluebelt program page describes natural drainage covering about 10,000 acres, fifteen watersheds grouped at the island's southern end plus the Richmond Creek watershed, and it does not place any of them in New Springville. That silence proves nothing in either direction. Before closing, ask the seller for DEP's sewer-connection record for the address and have the house's sewer line run with a camera.
How the flood layer falls across the area
The Department of Finance labels sales by assessment neighborhood, not by any official boundary. On blocks with a sale labeled New Springville in its rolling sales file between September 2025 and August 2026, 18 residential lots have their center point in shaded Zone X on FEMA's National Flood Hazard Layer, the 0.2-percent-annual-chance floodplain, which is a mapped flood hazard in its own right. The same test across the whole official New Springville-Willowbrook-Bulls Head-Travis area puts 26 lots inside the Special Flood Hazard Area, 14 in Zone A and 12 in Zone AE, and 168 in shaded Zone X. The 26 and the 168 describe that whole official area, not New Springville alone; high-risk lots on blocks the sales file has labeled Travis are counted on the Travis page. Treat each count as a minimum: a lot whose center misses a zone can still have part of its yard, or the house, inside one.
New York City's effective flood map is dated 5 September 2007, and the city's row in FEMA's Community Status Book shows no Community Rating System class, so a flood policy here carries no CRS discount. Before signing, pull the panel for that one lot from the FEMA Flood Map Service Center and have a broker price a flood policy against it.
Before planning an addition
- Zoning Resolution section 12-10 makes the whole Borough of Staten Island a lower density growth management area for its R1, R2, R3, R4A, R4-1 and C3A districts; have an architect confirm which provisions reach the lot.
- PLUTO records no special zoning district on the residential lots of the official area.
- Community District 2's next Local Law 152 gas-piping window is calendar 2029. Buildings in occupancy group R-3, which takes in one- and two-family houses, are exempt; buildings outside that class, such as three-family and larger multi-unit buildings, are covered.
- The Local Law 126 basement program names no Staten Island district, and its rule is still proposed as of September 2026.
Getting to the ferry
None of the Staten Island Railway's stations is named for New Springville. For the trip to the St. George ferry, look up the connections that serve the particular address on the MTA's own planner rather than relying on a neighborhood summary.
Heartland Village
A City Planning environmental scope dated 10 December 2014, prepared for a proposed enlargement of the Staten Island Mall, places the mall at 2655 Richmond Avenue "in the Heartland Village neighborhood of Staten Island Community District 2" (Final Scope of Work). It describes an 84.95-acre site zoned C4-1 and bounded by Richmond Hill Road, Marsh Avenue, Platinum Avenue and Richmond Avenue. That block lies inside the official New Springville-Willowbrook-Bulls Head-Travis area. The document records the project as proposed in 2014, not the mall as it stands now.
Arranging a visit
The two- to four-family walkthrough and the single-house walkthrough are booked from the East New York base through the contact page, held in Bangla or English, with the written report finished the same day.