Between a park, a bluff and a creek
The Landmarks Preservation Commission drew Prince's Bay's edges in its 2009 report on the Elsworth House: "bounded on the east by Wolfe's Pond Park and on the west by Pleasant Plains and Mount Loretto," with Lemon Creek winding through on its way to the bay. The same report marks the bay's western point at the former Red Bank Lighthouse, on a high bluff at the edge of Mount Loretto's property, and its eastern point at Seguine Point. Those are LPC's words, not an official boundary; the city's statistical map folds this ground into the official Annadale-Huguenot-Prince's Bay-Woodrow area.
No neighborhood-level sewer record turned up
The Department of Environmental Protection sewer releases researched for this page include none that names Prince's Bay. That is not evidence of septic, and it is not evidence of sewers. It means the answer has to come from the house.
What DEP has said on the record is about stormwater. In testimony on May 7, 2025, a deputy commissioner described the department as "continuing to build out Bluebelts in New Creek, Lemon Creek, Arden Heights, and Butler Manor watersheds" (DEP testimony). Lemon Creek, which LPC describes as winding through Prince's Bay, is one of those watersheds. A Bluebelt carries rain; it says nothing about where a toilet drains.
For a house here, then, the question is plainly tank or sewer. A camera run from the cleanout answers it, since the line ends either at the street or at a tank; a DEP connection permit, or a pumping record if a tank turns up, is the paper that backs the footage.
Three landmarks on two streets
Seguine Avenue carries two designated houses. The Seguine House at number 440, built about 1840, was designated on May 25, 1967. Further along at 509, the Manee-Seguine Homestead, "later known as the Homestead Hotel or Purdy's Hotel," was built between the late seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries and designated on September 11, 1984. LPC's report places it "on the shore of Prince's Bay near the southern tip of Staten Island" and ties it to the oyster trade, naming "the free black oystermen from the Chesapeake Bay area who established the nearby community of Sandy Ground," now covered on the Woodrow page. The Elsworth House at 90 Bayview Avenue, built about 1880, joined the list on January 13, 2009.
A landmark lot needs LPC approval for exterior work. That review covers the designated lot; confirm any neighboring property's status with LPC before assuming either way.
What was built, and when
The housing profile for the shared official area, from the city's tax-lot file, is set out on the Annadale page. For the postal area, the Census Bureau's 2020–2024 survey counts 12,921 housing units in ZIP Code Tabulation Area 10309, which holds the Prince's Bay station. Of those, 4,259 were built in the 1980s, 2,457 in the 1990s, 1,881 between 2000 and 2009, and 859 in 1939 or earlier (year-built table). The ZIP area reaches well past Prince's Bay, so treat these as context.
Close to open water, salt air and wind-driven rain do most of the work on a house's shell. They corrode exposed fasteners and metal flashing, push water behind siding at window and door heads, and rot sills that sit near grade. A house old enough to predate gas service may also have an oil tank, buried or in the basement, that should come with closure paperwork if it is no longer used.
Flood maps and the 2017 map status
FEMA's flood layer maps VE, FEMA's coastal high-hazard designation for wave action, along the shoreline of the official Annadale-Huguenot-Prince's Bay-Woodrow area as the city draws it. That area contains or borders AE zones with floodways, Zone A and the shaded 0.2 percent annual chance band of Zone X, which remains a mapped flood area. Whatever a listing says, the parcel's panel comes from the FEMA Flood Map Service Center, and an insurance quote belongs in the contract period, not after closing.
City Planning wrote in April 2017 that the preliminary maps governed building code and zoning while flood insurance still referred to the 2007 effective maps, and that the city was working with FEMA on new ones. Whether that has changed since is worth asking an insurance broker.
What the special district asks of a builder
The Special South Richmond Development District is mapped over this official area in DCP's layer; check each lot in ZoLa. Its definitions include a waterfront esplanade, "a pedestrian way to be provided for public use within the open space network along the Raritan Bay waterfront," and they require designated open space "to be preserved in its natural state." A lot with either designation carries obligations a buyer planning to build should read first. The district also caps buildings at 50 feet without a City Planning Commission special permit. Staten Island's Lower Density Growth Management Area rules, per DCP's 2011 metadata, add parking, yard and open-space requirements for new development.
The station, finally: Prince's Bay is an open-cut stop without wheelchair access in the MTA's station data, with trains north to the St. George ferry. Local Law 152 gas-piping checks skip one- and two-family houses, and Community District 3's next cycle for everything else is 2028 (DOB).