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Neighborhood · Staten Island

New Springville, Willowbrook, Bulls Head & Travis

This Mid-Island area sits near the geographic center of Staten Island. It stayed largely rural until 1964, when the Verrazzano–Narrows Bridge opened, and changed completely after the Staten Island Mall opened in 1973 on the site of a little-used airport; the area is now the island's main retail center. There is no Staten Island Railway station, but the mall is a major bus hub. Willowbrook Park, part of the Greenbelt, has a five-acre lake, tennis courts, ballfields, an archery range and the accessible Carousel for All Children. The College of Staten Island campus occupies the former Willowbrook State School site. Decker Farm on Richmond Hill Road, run by Historic Richmond Town, is an 11-acre working farm and a city landmark.

New Springville, Willowbrook, Bulls Head & Travis has 3,772 open HPD housing violations, 223 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 746 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 7th most open violations of 17 neighborhoods in Staten Island.

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Open HPD violations
3,772
223 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
746
71 Class C · 10th in Staten Island
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C223 · 6%Class B1,783 · 47%Class A1,766 · 47%Class A here includes a small number of Class I orders.

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

New violations in the last 12 months
By class
  • Class C · immediately hazardous71
  • Class B · hazardous219
  • Class A · non-hazardous230

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

Good to know

  • Staten Island Mall opened in 1973 on the site of a former airport
  • Willowbrook Park's Carousel for All Children has 51 hand-carved animals
  • College of Staten Island opened on the former Willowbrook State School site in 1993
  • Decker Farmhouse, 435 Richmond Hill Road, has been a city landmark since 1967
  • No Staten Island Railway station; the mall is a major bus hub

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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Fact-checked October 12, 2026

Re-checked 2026-10-12. Willowbrook Park features (five-acre lake, tennis, ballfields, archery, carousel with 51 animals) from NYC Parks. Removed the carousel's 1999 opening year and the 'farms and marsh to one- and two-family homes and condo complexes' description, which could not be confirmed (NYC Parks history page was rate-limited). Rural until 1964, mall 1973 on airport site, bus hub from Wikipedia New Springville; CSI opening six years after the 1987 school closure (1993) from Wikipedia Willowbrook; CSI campus point falls in this NTA. Decker Farm (11-acre active farm) from Historic Richmond Town; Decker Farmhouse landmark (12/13/1967) from LPC dataset. No SIR station in this NTA.

Sources

  1. Willowbrook Park · NYC Parks (accessed October 12, 2026)
  2. About Historic Richmond Town · Historic Richmond Town (accessed October 12, 2026)
  3. New Springville, Staten Island · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  4. Willowbrook, Staten Island · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  5. Individual Landmark Sites (NYC Open Data) · NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission (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.