Park Hill is best known for one large affordable rental complex. For an investor, what matters is the small stock of houses around it, the rents in ZIP 10304 and how few of them trade.
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Park Hill is a North Shore Staten Island neighborhood in ZIP 10304, next to Clifton. Its best-known property is the Park Hill Apartments complex: 8 buildings and about 1,100 units built in the 1960s, which in December 2025 began a $165 million rehabilitation that extends affordability for 40 years under a new 20-year HUD Section 8 contract. That complex does not trade on the open market. The investment opportunities are the houses around it.
The Park Hill median sale price was $610,000 in Q2 2026, up 14.4% from $533,000 a year earlier, on 8 recorded sales, according to PropertyShark, at $550 per square foot. Eight sales is too few to call a trend. Redfin does not publish a Park Hill neighborhood page, so the best broader read is ZIP 10304: a $737,181 median over the three months ending August 2026, essentially flat year over year, with 63 sales in August, a median of 59 days on market and 30% of listings taking a price cut. ZIP 10304 also covers other North Shore neighborhoods, so treat it as context, not a Park Hill price.
Zillow reported an average asking rent of $3,000 in ZIP 10304 as of September 21, 2026, flat year over year, across 64 available rentals ranging from $1,400 to $4,850. That is an average, not a median, and it spans studios to whole houses. For underwriting a specific property, Joseph Ranola pulls the rents of comparable units, same bedroom count and same building type, rather than the ZIP average.
Almost none of it. PropertyShark reports that 7 of Park Hill's 1,478 residential buildings are in a flood zone and none is in a hurricane evacuation zone. For an investor comparing the North Shore with the East Shore, that means lower flood insurance risk and fewer lender conditions, which improves the cash-flow math before a single rent is collected.
It can be, for the right house at the right price. The case for Park Hill is a sub-$700,000 entry point, steady North Shore rental demand, and very little flood exposure. The case against is thin sales volume, which makes appraisals harder and resale slower. Joseph Ranola checks the certificate of occupancy for the legal unit count, the rent roll and the closest real comps before an investor writes an offer, because a house with an unpermitted extra unit is worth less than the listing implies.
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