261a Signs Road
Staten Island · Parcel 5021407501
172,519 sq ft
Building area
Analysis
AI-generated Risk: Low
The building carries low risk but the lack of a recent arm‑length sale, a sizable number of complaints, and existing open violations warrant careful due diligence before purchase.
The good
- Assessed risk is low with no open violations of consequence
- No enforcement or safety violation penalties are owed
- Residential floor‑area ratio (0.69) is below the 0.75 limit, so the building is not over‑built
- Average unit size is 1,554 sq ft, indicating spacious apartments
The bad
- There are 18 open violations (0.2 per unit), which may require remediation
- No arms‑length sale recorded and market value on record is 0, limiting price benchmarks
- 200 complaints have been logged, suggesting tenant dissatisfaction
- Unused buildable square footage (77,106 sq ft) indicates development potential that may be difficult to realize
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What the numbers say
Generated from this property's own figures using the rules set out in our methodology. Every statement below refers to a number shown on this page.
Unused development capacity on the lot
Built floor-area ratio is 0.69 against a permitted 1.00, leaving 0.31 of unused ratio — roughly 77,106 sq ft of buildable area on a lot of 248,728 sq ft. Treat that as a ceiling under the floor-area rules, not a plan: height limits, setbacks, lot coverage, landmark status and sitting tenants can each reduce it, in some cases to nothing.
Unresolved conditions on record
18 violations remain open across 111 residential units (about 0.2 per apartment), against an outstanding penalty balance of $0.00. A significant open count with little money attached usually means habitability items that were never certified as corrected, rather than a few expensive enforcement actions — an administrative problem more than a financial one, though it is still a problem.
Development & zoning
Floor-area ratio
| Built | 0.69 |
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| Residential limit | 0.75 |
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| Commercial limit | 0.00 |
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| Community-facility limit | 1.00 |
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Development headroom (calculated) calculated
| Highest permitted ratio | 1.00 |
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| Unused ratio | 0.31 |
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| Unused buildable area | 77,106 sq ft |
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| Lot area | 248,728 sq ft |
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Value & taxes
Assessment
| Assessed total | $4,369,546 |
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| Assessed land | $306,935 |
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| Assessed building | $4,062,611 |
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| Market value on record | $0 |
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| Assessed as % of market | — |
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Tax
| Tax class | 2 |
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| Taxable assessed | $0 |
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| Tax rate | 12.502% |
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| Estimated annual levy | — |
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The levy is an estimate — taxable value × the published rate for the class. It does not account for exemptions or abatements the property may carry, and will not match an actual bill. It is not the property's total debt to the city: unpaid tax and water arrears are not shown anywhere on this page.
Assessed value by year
| Year | Assessed value | Change |
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| 2027 | $0 | — |
| 2026 | $0 | — |
| 2025 | $0 | — |
| 2024 | $0 | — |
| 2023 | $0 | — |
Building & occupancy
Structure
| Year built | 1983 |
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| Floors | 3 |
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| Building area | 172,519 sq ft |
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| Residential area | 172,519 sq ft |
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| Commercial area | — |
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Occupancy
| Ownership | Condominium |
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| Total units | 111 |
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| Residential units | 111 |
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| Residential Avg unit size | 1,554 sq ft (calculated) |
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| Building class | R3 |
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Neighborhood, risk & energy
Neighborhood & transit
| Nearest subway | New Dorp (SIR) — 3.55 mi |
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| School district | 31 |
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| Police precinct | 121 |
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| Nearest firehouse | Staten Island Borough Command/Squad 8 — 3730 Victory Boulevard |
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Location risk
| Flood zone | Minimal hazard (Zone X) |
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| Hurricane evacuation zone | Zone 3 |
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Comparable sales
| Address | Sale date | Price | Sq ft | $/sq ft |
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| 120a Dinsmore Street | 2026-06-18 | $632,000 | — | — |
| 80a Dinsmore Street | 2026-01-15 | $620,000 | — | — |
| 180e Dinsmore Street | 2025-12-01 | $615,000 | — | — |
| 261e Signs Road | 2025-09-09 | $570,000 | — | — |
| 281c Signs Road | 2025-07-21 | $610,000 | — | — |
| 271e Signs Road | 2025-03-24 | $450,000 | — | — |
| 180g Dinsmore Street | 2025-02-25 | $600,000 | — | — |
| 80 Dinsmore Street, N/a | 2024-07-03 | $510,000 | — | — |
Record activity
Compliance calculated
| Open violations | 18 |
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| Open per residential unit | 0.2 (calculated) |
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| Enforcement penalties | $0.00 |
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| Safety-violation penalties | Not available |
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| Total penalties owed | $0.00 (calculated) |
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| On tax-lien sale list | No |
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Activity
| Complaints recorded | 203 |
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| Permits / alterations | 11 |
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| Recorded documents | 0 |
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| Legal proceedings | 0 |
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Total penalties owed combines two separate debts — enforcement penalties (from summonses) and safety-violation penalties (unfiled inspections and reports on boilers, elevators, facades and energy use). The second kind accrues quietly and is routinely missed; it is a standing debt on the building, not a fine someone can walk away from. The safety figure could not be retrieved for this property, so no total is shown — we would rather show nothing than a total that silently omits it. Neither figure includes unpaid property tax or water and sewer arrears, which are frequently the largest number of all and appear nowhere on this page. For a true payoff figure, go to the city directly.
Ownership & last recorded sale
Owner of record
| Owner | Name Not On File |
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| Parcel | 5021407501 |
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| Block | 2140 |
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| Lot | 7501 |
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Last recorded transfer
| Date | — |
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| Recorded price | — |
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| Price per unit | Not meaningful |
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| Price vs assessed | Not meaningful |
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Owner of record comes from the public land-use record and may lag a recent sale. It is frequently a holding company rather than an individual. If you own or manage this property and believe something here is wrong, tell us — we read and respond to every message of that kind.
Open violations
Open violations only. A violation that was raised and later corrected is not counted — an older building accumulates hundreds of those, and the number says more about its age than its condition.
Complaints
A complaint is an allegation, not a finding — many are dismissed. A sustained pattern is nevertheless informative about how a building is run.
Showing the 50 most recent of 150. The full set is available in the interactive report.
Permits & alterations
The absence of a permit does not prove no work was done — it may equally mean work was done without one.
About this page
Compiled from New York City public records — data retrieved 6 days ago. Coverage on this parcel: 14 of 15 record groups populated. The derived figures — unused floor-area ratio, buildable area, the assessed-value trend and the per-unit ratios — are calculated by us and appear in no public dataset; the formulas are in the methodology.
This is a research tool, not advice. It is not a title search, a lien search, a survey or an inspection, and it does not replace any of them. If a figure here matters to a decision, verify it at the source. See Terms.