The Chatham
108-25 72nd Avenue, near Queens Boulevard, Queens, Forest Hills
Forest Hills, Queens
BBL 4032570009 · BIN 4078004
- Year built
- 1939
- Type
- Cooperative
- Amenities
- Elevator, common laundry and resident superintendent
- 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, 2009–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 1BR median, 2023–2026
- $258K
- 3 qualifying sales
- Recent range
- $248K – $670K
- Listing discount
- -2.4%
- Recorded transfers
- 21
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The Chatham is a six-story prewar cooperative just off Queens Boulevard. Its 69 residences share a building with commercial space, placing the property in the mixed-use center of Forest Hills. The apartment entrance is on 72nd Avenue, close to the Forest Hills–71st Avenue subway station and the Long Island Rail Road station.
The building dates to the late 1930s, before the taller postwar apartment houses along Queens Boulevard. Its scale is horizontal, with a brick exterior and elevator access to the residential floors. Shared laundry and a resident superintendent form the core of its service package.
The location gives the building two distinct transit options within the same neighborhood center. Austin Street's commercial corridor and the rail station lie south of Queens Boulevard, while subway entrances serve the boulevard itself. The property's commercial zoning reflects that central position.
Architecture and unit composition
The Chatham has a brick exterior and a range of prewar apartment layouts. One-bedroom homes include separate kitchens, entry foyers and living rooms with space for dining. Hardwood floors and substantial closet storage appear throughout the resale and rental inventory, although renovation work has changed individual interiors.
Some plans include eat-in kitchens; others use a smaller kitchen separated from the principal living room. The distinction affects how dining space is distributed within the apartment. Window air conditioners appear in existing homes, and the property has common laundry facilities.
The 69 residential apartments are part of a mixed-use building that also contains two commercial units. Public property records carry approximately 6,900 square feet of commercial space. The residential count should therefore be distinguished from the property's total number of occupied spaces.
Building operations
The resident superintendent and shared laundry serve the cooperative's residential floors. Elevator access is part of the building's original apartment-house type. The property is assessed as Class 2, with no building-wide abatement identified by DOF.
The commercial premises are a material part of the cooperative's physical property. Its built floor-area ratio of 4.61 is close to the stated residential allowance of 5.0 under the combined C4-5X/C4-4A zoning. The site also lies within the Special Forest Hills District.
Monthly carrying charges in recent sales
- Maintenance, per room
- $269 per room a monthMedian of 5 recorded sales since October 2023Source: recorded sales, refreshed October 2026
- Maintenance, per square foot
- $1.02 per square foot a monthMedian of 4 recorded sales since October 2023Source: recorded sales, refreshed October 2026
Maintenance as recorded with each sale. A co-op's maintenance already covers the building's real estate taxes and the building's own mortgage, if it has one; add your own loan payment for the monthly outlay. A summary of recorded sales, not a current bill; charges change.
Building staffing and amenities
- Live-in superintendent
- YesSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Elevator
- YesSource: NYC Department of City Planning records (PLUTO)
- Amenities noted
- 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
- $30,553/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $37
- Modeled exposure split equally across 69 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 →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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 2026 | 5D | 1 BR · 1 BA · 597 sf | $670,000 | $1,122/sf | -15.9% |
| Feb 6, 2025 | 4F | 1 BR · 1 BA | $258,000 | +2.4% | |
| Aug 2, 2023 | 4F | 1 BR · 1 BA | $248,000 | +3.3% | |
| Jul 17, 2018 | 3C | 1 BR · 1 BA | $300,000 | -3.2% | |
| Jul 14, 2015 | 6D | 1 BR · 1 BA | $336,288 | -0.8% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026 to date) cleared a median $1,122/sf (recorded) across 1 sale. Median listing discount 2.0% 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 4-03257-0009). 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.
Closed rents at The Chatham, last 36 months
| Size | Leases | Median / month |
|---|---|---|
| 1 bedroom | 5 | $2,395 |
| 2 bedroom | 3 | $3,900 |
8 closed leases, October 2023 to September 2026. Most recent lease September 2026. Sizes with fewer than 2 leases are not shown. Compiled by The Roebling Team at Compass from closed leases.
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Comparable buildings
- Lane Towers: A nearby postwar cooperative with a taller building form and direct Queens Boulevard frontage.
- Kennedy House: A much larger high-rise cooperative in the same Forest Hills transit center.
- The Summit Condominium: A taller condominium alternative for buyers weighing a different ownership structure.
- Plymouth Hall: A farther Queens comparison sharing the prewar, six-story elevator form and ground-floor commercial component.
- The Crescent House: A six-story postwar cooperative in Astoria for comparing a later construction era at a similar building height.
More Forest Hills buildings
- Green Park Condominiums, 110-18 65th Avenue and associated addresses along 65th Avenue · Forest Hills — 1951 condominium
- Meadow Apartments, 110-12 64th Avenue — 1950 co-op
- Sutton Hall, 109-14 Ascan Avenue — 1932 co-op
- The Dorian, 72-11 110th Street — 1948 co-op
- The Fairview, 111-45 76th Drive — 1936 co-op
- The Lafayette, 69-40 Yellowstone Boulevard — 1942 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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