For the love of God, Densify Staten Island, it is too suburban to be part of a city with as severe a housing crisis as NYC. This is not acceptable land use around a transit station in a city with median rents over 3,500 dollars a month.
There should be at a minimum multi family dwellings and low-rise apartments around a transit stop in New York, Not Suburban Houses, a YMCA, and a strip mall. And it's not like Staten Island is any cheaper to live on because of its suburban nature
There are no benefits to Staten Island being like this, it's less sustainable, less livable and in general makes New York more expensive to live in because there are fewer places to live in the city.
Assuming of course that the local geography permits densifying the place any further. I presume there are neighbourhoods in New York where the buildings only go up to three or four storeys because anything taller would sink under its own weight unless given ridiculously elaborate and expensive foundations, same as most large cities.
The buildings could still be denser than single family homes even if the Geography only permits 4 stories, my example of low rise apartments and multi family dwellings is proof of that