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Staten Island Community District 2

Staten Island Community District 2 covers the middle of the island, from the East Shore beach neighborhoods of South Beach, Midland Beach and New Dorp Beach through New Dorp, Dongan Hills and Grant City to Todt Hill, Bulls Head, New Springville and Travis on the west. Housing is mostly houses: in PLUTO tax-lot data about 77% of its roughly 50,000 homes are in one- and two-family houses and 11% are condo units. NYCHA's Berry, Todt Hill and South Beach Houses are here. The Staten Island Railway stops at Grasmere, Old Town, Dongan Hills, Jefferson Av, Grant City and New Dorp. Parks include the Franklin D. Roosevelt Boardwalk and Beach, Willowbrook Park, High Rock Park, and parts of LaTourette Park and Freshkills Park.

Staten Island Community District 2 has 10,975 open HPD housing violations, 988 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 2,643 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 2nd most open violations of 3 community districts in Staten Island. Per apartment it ranks 53rd of 59 citywide, at 219.0 open violations per 1,000 homes.

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Open HPD violations
10,975
988 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
2,643
405 Class C · 2nd in Staten Island
Residential units
50.1K
35,162 tax lots
Open violations per 1,000 homes
219.0
City median 760.6
Heat complaints this season
11
10 by this date last season
Average year built
1971
Lots with a known year
Rent-stabilized units (2024)
984
35 buildings · 2% of homes
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C988 · 9%Class B5,558 · 51%Class A4,429 · 40%Class A here includes a small number of Class I orders.

Source: NYC HPD Housing Maintenance Code Violations · data as of Oct 15, 2026

What residents report to 311
Housing-related 311 complaints, last 12 months
  • Residential noise3,110
  • Building use495
  • Heat / hot water491
  • Unsanitary condition479
  • Plumbing274
  • Rodents236
  • Paint / plaster151
  • Electric137
  • Door / window106
  • Water leak94

Source: NYC 311 Service Requests · data as of Oct 15, 2026

Open violations per 1,000 homes: Staten Island community districts
Staten Island Community District 2 highlighted

Source: NYC HPD violations and DCP PLUTO · data as of Oct 15, 2026

Good to know

  • Staten Island Railway: Grasmere, Old Town, Dongan Hills, Jefferson Av, Grant City, New Dorp
  • About 50,000 homes: roughly 77% one- and two-family, 11% condo (PLUTO)
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Boardwalk and Beach (about 644 acres of park property)
  • Willowbrook Park, High Rock Park, and parts of LaTourette Park and Freshkills Park
  • NYCHA: Berry, Todt Hill and South Beach Houses

Neighborhoods included

Arrochar · Bloomfield · Bulls Head · Chelsea · Concord · Dongan Hills · Egbertville · Emerson Hill · Grant City · Grasmere · Heartland Village · Lighthouse Hill · Manor Heights · Midland Beach · New Dorp · New Dorp Beach · New Springville · Old Town · South Beach · Todt Hill · Travis · Willowbrook

Before you rent or buy here

Check the buildingLook up any address for violations, complaints and owner.Read the violation classesWhat A, B and C mean and how fast owners must fix them.Work out your budgetThe 40× income rule most NYC landlords use.

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Staten Island Community District 1Staten Island Community District 3
Fact-checked October 12, 2026

Neighborhood list from the NYC Planning Community Profiles app (neighborhood names are not official boundaries and some span districts). Housing mix = share of residential units by PLUTO building class (A/B one- and two-family, C walk-up incl. three-family and garden apartments, D elevator, R condo), queried by cd. Subway/SIR stations placed by point-in-polygon of MTA station coordinates (data.ny.gov 39hk-dx4f) against NYC Community Districts boundaries (data.cityofnewyork.us 5crt-au7u); LIRR stations from the MTA LIRR GTFS stops file. Park names and acreage from NYC Parks Properties (enfh-gkve) communityboard field; NYCHA development names and apartment counts from the NYCHA Development Data Book (data.cityofnewyork.us evjd-dqpz, data as of 1/1/2025). Re-verified 2026-10-12 by independent fact-check: neighborhood list matches the NYC Planning Community Profiles app exactly; PLUTO residential-unit totals and building-class shares re-queried by cd (64uk-42ks) and rounded to whole percent; subway/SIR stations re-placed by point-in-polygon against 5crt-au7u and LIRR stations against the MTA LIRR GTFS feed; park names, acreage and community-board assignments re-queried from enfh-gkve; NYCHA names and counts re-queried from evjd-dqpz where cited; max building height from PLUTO numfloors where cited.

Sources

  1. NYC Community District Profiles: Staten Island Community District 2 · NYC Department of City Planning (accessed October 12, 2026)
  2. Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO) · NYC Department of City Planning (accessed October 12, 2026)
  3. MTA Subway Stations (stations, routes and coordinates; includes Staten Island Railway) · Metropolitan Transportation Authority (accessed October 12, 2026)

General information, not legal, tax or financial advice. Rules change; confirm with the agency or a professional before you act.

“Open” counts every HPD violation not yet recorded as corrected, including old ones owners never certified, so totals can exceed the number of apartments. Statistics: NYC Open Data (HPD violations, 311 service requests, DCP PLUTO) and rent-stabilized counts from DOF tax bills (via JustFix), updated Oct 15, 2026. Heat season runs October 1 to May 31; season-to-date counts compare the same dates.