70 Cotter Avenue, Staten Island

A two-unit Staten Island residential building where street conditions carry the visible record.

A 1985 two-family residential property on Staten Island with a minimal operational footprint. Not enough recent housing-code or building-department violation data is available to evaluate historical maintenance filings, leaving the assessment to street-level activity and physical setup. Two things to know:

Direct calls against the house focus on curb access. The property carries two calls over the last year, both logged in May 2025 for blocked hydrants directly outside. Aside from those curb access issues, the address itself generates almost no direct operational complaints.

Winter sidewalk clearing and street parking shape the surrounding blocks. Within three blocks, seasonal snow and ice calls top the neighborhood log at 50 requests over the last 12 months, mostly regarding uncleared sidewalks. Illegal parking accounts for 28 calls across surrounding streets, dominated by posted sign violations and blocked hydrants.

Quieter signals on this building and the blocks around it:

• Five helicopter noise complaints were logged within three blocks over the last 12 months.
• Four overgrown tree calls and four dead or dying tree requests were filed in the three-block radius over the last year.

70 Cotter Avenue is a two-family home in Staten Island, New York City (BBL 5044730030). This building is associated with Scala, Michael. Brix does not yet have a current violation read for this property (not enough recent data), along with inspection history, DOB filings, tenant complaints, and rent stabilization status.

Built in 1985, this two-family home sits in Staten Island and is tracked by Brix using public NYC records from HPD, DOB, ACRIS, and 311.

Brix score: 100/100. View the Building Report on Brix.

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