1 Ascan Avenue
1 Ascan Avenue, near Austin Street, Forest Hills Gardens · Forest Hills
Forest Hills, Queens
BBL 4032760024 · BIN 4078367
- Year built
- 1918
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 51
- Floors
- 5
- Amenities
- Elevator; shared garden; laundry room; superintendent and porter
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; not in a historic district
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission and City Planning records, updated February 2026
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2024
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 3BR median, 2024
- $1M
- 2 qualifying sales
- Recent range
- $900K – $1.2M
- Listing discount
- 1.9%
- Recorded transfers
- 31
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1 Ascan Avenue is a 1918 apartment house within Forest Hills Gardens, with a shared garden and a range of prewar layouts. Its five-story scale accommodates both smaller apartments and substantial three-bedroom homes. The building sits close to Austin Street while participating in the Gardens' private-street setting.
The garden is part of the cooperative's common space. It has its own use protocols and an event-scheduling process through the managing agent. The building's outdoor life therefore includes a shared ground-level area accessible to residents beyond the apartments that face it.
Forest Hills Gardens is central to the address's identity, but this tax lot is not designated by LPC. Private street arrangements and the cooperative's own rules remain separate matters. A street-parking permit is one of the practical features associated with ownership here.
Architecture and unit composition
The apartment mix includes one-bedroom homes and larger multi-bedroom layouts. High ceilings and oak flooring survive in some interiors, along with the room separation associated with older apartment plans. The smaller homes can offer a dedicated bedroom and living room without the circulation or room count of the larger residences.
Three-bedroom plans include homes with two bathrooms and approximately 1,300 square feet. Larger residences have also traded, including a three-bedroom home with an additional half bathroom. Some apartments retain a fireplace; that is a feature of individual interiors, not a building-wide specification.
The sales history spans homes around 550 and 750 square feet as well as layouts above 1,000 square feet. Those differences establish several distinct size categories within the cooperative. The larger homes occupy a different part of the resale market from the smaller apartments, even where both retain similar prewar details.
The lot's existing density exceeds the residential allowance shown under its current R3-2 zoning: built FAR is 2.72 against 0.75 allowed. The five-story apartment house is an established part of a district that also contains substantially lower-density housing. Its built form dates to the early development of Forest Hills Gardens.
Building operations
The cooperative has a superintendent and a porter, with a managing agent handling general operations and garden-event requests. Residents have access to a common laundry room. The public building information also maintains a garden calendar and separate communications from the board.
The courtyard and garden are shared property. Scheduling a private event there goes through the managing agent, giving residents a defined process for using the outdoor space beyond ordinary daily access. Garden-facing windows do not convey exclusive ownership of the space below them.
The Class 2 tax treatment applies to the cooperative as a whole, with no building-wide abatement identified. The apartment house is outside the small-property tax subclasses that receive annual assessment-growth caps. Its size and ownership structure therefore carry a different tax framework from the surrounding individual houses.
Policy framework
Pets: Permitted — confirm with the managing agent.
Street parking: Private-street parking permits are available under the applicable Gardens arrangements — confirm eligibility and current terms with the managing agent.
Building staffing and amenities
- Elevator
- YesSource: NYC Department of City Planning records (PLUTO)
- Amenities noted
- Garden, laundry roomSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
Staffing and amenities as our building profile and recent listing records describe them. A feature not listed is not confirmed absent. Outdoor space, parking and some facilities can belong to particular apartments or to a separate owner; confirm access for the specific apartment.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $52,658/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $86
- Modeled exposure split equally across 51 units (the residential count on the city's lot record). Not an assessed amount; co-op shareholders are typically charged by share allocation.
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City data last refreshed October 2026.
See full Local Law 97 analysis — emissions history, scenarios, methodology →Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available FISP filing classified the facade as Safe — no repairs were required at that inspection. A filed Safe grade is not a guarantee of current condition: owners still maintain the facade and, where required, observe parapets each year. Future inspection timing (Local Law 49 of 2025 changed the cycle framework from October 1, 2026), repair and any assessment decisions remain building-specific.
How to read this, and where it comes from
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — a licensed professional engineer or registered architect who meets DOB’s FISP qualifications and signs the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent).
Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library. City data last refreshed October 2026.
Recent sales
Recent transfers at this building, from The Roebling Research Library. Prices are the transfer amounts recorded with the NYC Department of Finance; apartment-level detail is checked against the building’s own file in The Roebling Research Library before publishing.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | PPSF | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 20, 2024 | 41 | 3 BR · 2.5 BA | $1,175,000 | -5.1% | |
| Dec 17, 2024 | 35 | 3 BR · 2 BA · 1,300 sf | $900,000 | $692/sf | +0.2% |
| Aug 17, 2023 | 1B | 1 BR · 1 BA | $150,000 | -34.5% | |
| Mar 2, 2022 | 64A | 1 BR · 1 BA · 1,000 sf | $588,000 | $588/sf | +0.0% |
| Mar 2, 2022 | 64 | 1 BR · 1,100 sf | $545,000 | $495/sf | +9.2% |
| Oct 19, 2020 | 25 | 3 BR · 1,300 sf | $730,000 | $562/sf | -0.7% |
| May 1, 2019 | 21 | 2 BR · 1,100 sf | $630,000 | $573/sf | +0.0% |
| Mar 14, 2019 | 25 | 3 BR | $675,000 | -6.9% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2024) cleared a median $692/sf (recorded) across 1 sale. Median listing discount 1.9% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy.
The retrade record
Lines that have traded more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
Full closing history with price-per-square-foot over time, the complete retrade record, and every line that has traded.
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 4-03276-0024). Apartment-level facts (line, condition, asking-price context) curated and cross-verified in The Roebling Research Library. Not all transactions cross-verify with ACRIS records — sponsor and LLC purchases sometimes record at stipulated values rather than market price; square footage on co-ops is not officially recorded, figures shown are approximate.
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What to know if you’re buying
Separate a parking permit from an assigned space. The parking feature here concerns access to private streets. A buyer who needs a particular space should establish exactly what the permit allows and whether any separate parking arrangement transfers with the apartment. The cooperative's garden scheduling and the Gardens' street-parking rules are administered through different arrangements.
Comparable buildings
- Lane Towers — A nearby Forest Hills cooperative with a postwar tower form, useful for weighing height and scale against a prewar garden setting.
- Kennedy House — A much larger Forest Hills cooperative for buyers considering the same tenure with a high-rise service model.
- Colonial Court — A Jackson Heights prewar elevator cooperative, relevant for established layouts and a lower-rise apartment-house setting.
- Washington Plaza — A Jackson Heights cooperative with a landscaped central court, offering a larger shared-garden comparison.
- Plymouth Hall — A Sunnyside prewar apartment house whose residences trade as cooperative shares, providing another western Queens comparison for older interiors and elevator access.
More Forest Hills buildings
- 10 Holder Place — 1930 co-op
- 107-40 Queens Boulevard (Lane Towers) — 1965 condominium
- 108-07 65th Road, 108-07 65th Road at 108th Street · Forest Hills — 1949 co-op
- 110-11 Queens Boulevard (Kennedy House) — 1965 co-op by Philip Birnbaum & Associates
- 150 Burns Street — 1932 co-op
- 4 Dartmouth Street — 1931 co-op
The neighborhood
For the full neighborhood — its buildings, character, and market — read The Roebling Team Guide to Forest Hills.
The full playbook — what goes in the package, how boards read your financials, the interview, and the timeline — plus sample cover, reference, and personal letters you can adapt.
How to read the facts on this page. Items attributed to an offering plan describe the building as it was offered at that filing — unit mix, square footage, the amenity program as planned. They are not a statement about how the building operates today. Tax and compliance figures are sourced separately to current City records and carry their own dates. House rules, staffing and fee policy can change by board resolution without any public filing: treat every policy line here as a starting point for diligence and confirm it with the managing agent. Where this page compares one building or neighborhood to another, that is our analysis of the recorded record — it names the measure, the period and the sample it rests on, and it is an observation about medians rather than a prediction about any particular apartment.
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