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A two-bedroom two-bath co-op in a converted warehouse, with a terrace, listed at $599,000.

(917) 685-8703 Credit Ashok Sinha for The New York Times

It is part of $1 billion in new private investment, which includes a $300 million, 350,000-square-foot mall, Empire Outlets, located between the Richmond County Bank Ballpark and the ferry terminal, and on the other side of the terminal, a $200 million project called Lighthouse Point, with about 100 apartments and a hotel.

Some residents worry that more people will mean less quiet. But Mr. Brant and others hope these changes will lead to infrastructure improvements. “This is an epochal change for the better,” he said.

What You’ll Find

While the harbor indisputably frames most of St. George, the western border is somewhat vague; purists draw the line at Westervelt Avenue, but in terms of its turn-of-the-last-century housing stock, the area seems to extend farther, spilling down toward Jersey Street. Victory Boulevard forms the southern edge.

Densely settled and walkable, despite some thigh-burning hills, St. George has a remarkable grab-bag of housing types: there are co-ops and condominiums, single-family mansions and multifamily rowhouses. There is also the Richmond Terrace Houses complex, a 1960s city housing project that is home to about 1,400 people.

The most prized properties are found in a historic district whose heart is St. Marks Place, with elegant 19th-century homes boasting stained-glass windows and mansard roofs, which rarely hit the market.

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A two-family 1910 wood-frame

(646) 879-2988 A two-family 1910 wood-frame house with six bedrooms and two baths, listed at $359,000.(646) 879-2988 Credit Ashok Sinha for The New York Times

Along the water sits the gated Bay Street Landing complex, a former shipping area that began conversion in the 1980s and continues to this day. It offers co-ops and condos, including the Accolade, a condo project in a former cocoa-bean warehouse that was brought back to life by Meadow Partners when a previous developer was unable to complete it. Thirty percent of its units have sold since February, said Andrew L. Till, a Meadow vice president, including a three-bedroom for more than $1 million. Meadow also recently sold out the Pointe nearby, with 57 one- and two-bedroom units, Mr. Till said.

What You’ll Pay

As of June 17 there were 27 properties for sale, according to data from the Staten Island Multiple Listing Service. They included seven co-ops whose average list price was $272,000; six condos at an average of $603,000; and three single-family homes at an average of $418,000, the data show.