Boulevard Towers
119-49 Union Turnpike, at Queens Boulevard, in Forest Hills, Queens
Forest Hills, Queens
BBL 4033477501 · BIN 4312087
- Year built
- 1971
- Type
- Condominium
- Floors
- 11
- Amenities
- Part-time doorman, resident superintendent, elevator, common laundry and garage
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; not in a historic district
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission and City Planning records, updated February 2026
- Doorman
- Part-time doorman
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Boulevard Towers is a postwar condominium at Union Turnpike and Queens Boulevard. Its 59 residences occupy a mixed-use property with three separately classified nonresidential lots. The building combines a part-time attended entrance and garage with established apartment layouts in a Forest Hills market where many comparable postwar homes trade as cooperative shares.
The residential inventory includes compact apartments and larger two-bedroom homes with separate dining areas. Upper-floor apartments have wider outlooks over the surrounding streets. The corner location is closely tied to the Queens Boulevard transit corridor and the Kew Gardens–Union Turnpike subway station.
The condominium's maintenance record is a material part of the current purchase picture. DOB carries a 2023 unsafe façade-report entry and a later entry for failure to correct façade conditions, alongside an exterior-restoration filing. Their closeout and the associated project obligations merit specific attention in a transaction.
Architecture and unit composition
The building has a brick tower form above a substantial nonresidential component. Its apartments rise well above the low-rise streets surrounding portions of the site. The residential tax lots represent a distinct group within the overall mixed-use condominium.
The apartment mix includes smaller layouts around the mid-hundreds of square feet and larger homes of roughly twice that area. Larger two-bedroom apartments can include two full bathrooms, a separate dining area and dressing space. Galley kitchens recur, with some apartments retaining a defined separation between cooking and living rooms.
Storage includes walk-in closets in parts of the larger inventory. Hardwood floors, wall or central cooling arrangements and renovation history vary by apartment. In-unit washer/dryers appear in some resales, while the building also provides common laundry.
Upper-floor layouts include penthouse homes with additional rooms. The larger interiors and higher-floor exposures create different comparisons from the compact apartments lower in the tower. The postwar plans generally allocate space to distinct living, dining and bedroom areas without the long entrance galleries found in some older apartment houses.
Building operations
The condominium provides a part-time doorman and resident superintendent. Shared laundry serves residents, and garage spaces are subject to a waiting list. Parking availability is especially consequential at this address because the building sits directly on two major road corridors while also being close to subway service.
The property contains a substantial nonresidential area, and DOB filings cover work at both the Union Turnpike and Queens Boulevard addresses. Those filings include equipment serving commercial premises as well as building-wide work. The residential apartment count should therefore be kept separate from the total interests and uses within the condominium.
DOB NOW records describe an exterior-restoration scope including shelf-angle replacement, installation of cavity-wall ties, brick replacement and pointing. A separate sidewalk-shed filing is also associated with the address. The presence of a permit does not by itself establish completion of the façade project.
As of the September 2026 review, DOB's violation records retain active entries for the February 2023 unsafe report and November 2023 failure to correct SWARMP conditions. An active database entry is a recorded status, not a new engineering assessment of the building's condition.
Application and transaction fees
Fees below are from building management's published schedule, as of July 2026. They are shown as published, item by item; no total is added because the total depends on the transaction. Deposits are listed apart from nonrefundable charges.
Purchase
6 items
Fees and charges
| Item | Paid by | When | Amount | Refundable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Credit Check Fee Per PersonPer applicantRequired | Paid by Buyer | When With the application | Amount $75 per person | Refundable Non-refundable |
| Elevator FeeConditional | Paid by Buyer | When With the application | Amount $100 (if applicable) | Refundable Non-refundable |
| Processing FeeConditional | Paid by Buyer | When With the application | Amount $500 (if applicable) | Refundable Non-refundable |
| Elevator FeeConditional | Paid by Seller | When With the application | Amount $100 (if applicable) | Refundable Non-refundable |
Deposits
| Item | Paid by | When | Amount | Refundable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Move In DepositConditional | Paid by Buyer | When With the application | Amount $500 (if applicable) | Refundable Refundable |
| Move Out DepositConditional | Paid by Seller | When With the application | Amount $500 (if applicable) | Refundable Refundable |
Rental or lease
6 items
Fees and charges
| Item | Paid by | When | Amount | Refundable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elevator FeeConditional | Paid by Landlord | When With the application | Amount $100 (if applicable) | Refundable Non-refundable |
| Credit Check Fee Per PersonPer applicantRequired | Paid by Tenant | When With the application | Amount $75 per person | Refundable Non-refundable |
| Elevator FeeConditional | Paid by Tenant | When With the application | Amount $100 (if applicable) | Refundable Non-refundable |
| Processing FeeConditional | Paid by Tenant | When With the application | Amount $300 (if applicable) | Refundable Non-refundable |
Deposits
| Item | Paid by | When | Amount | Refundable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Move Out DepositConditional | Paid by Landlord | When With the application | Amount $500 (if applicable) | Refundable Refundable |
| Move In DepositConditional | Paid by Tenant | When With the application | Amount $500 (if applicable) | Refundable Refundable |
Management updates its schedule without a public filing. The date is when management last updated the page, not when a rule changed. Confirm the current schedule with management before you apply.
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Building staffing and amenities
- Doorman
- Part-time doormanSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Concierge
- YesSource: recent listing records
- Live-in superintendent
- YesSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Elevator
- YesSource: NYC Department of Buildings elevator records
- Amenities noted
- Garage, 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
- $4,448/yr
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $101,680/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $6 – $144
- Modeled exposure split equally across 59 units (the residential count on the city's lot record). Not an assessed amount; condominium owners are typically charged by each unit's common-interest percentage.
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 filing classified the facade as Unsafe — conditions requiring prompt corrective action. The owner must install any public protection the inspector specifies (a sidewalk shed, construction fence or structural netting, depending on the condition) and make the repairs. Review the subsequent filings, the repair status, and the building’s board and financial materials — we pull the repair scope and funding picture for you.
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).
Penalties shown are amounts DOB assessed against filings on record across 2005–10 to 2020–25. The FISP dataset does not record whether they were paid, contested or remain open, so treat the figure as history rather than a current balance and confirm the building’s standing with the managing agent.
Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library. City data last refreshed October 2026.
Recent sales
Boulevard Towers has an established resale history, with the latest recorded apartment closing in December 2025. Recent transactions include both mid-sized apartments and a larger two-bedroom home. The longer history includes repeated trades of the building's principal layouts.
The larger two-bedroom homes have generally reached higher total prices than the smaller apartments. Upper-floor position alone does not account for the range: compact homes near the top have sold below larger apartments on lower levels. Interior area, a second bathroom and separate dining space are important distinctions within the resale mix.
Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
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What to know if you’re buying
Resolve the façade project's current financial position. The recorded restoration scope and open 2023 entries make the remaining work, any assessment balance and the responsibility for costs already authorized concrete transaction issues. A seller's current monthly payment may not capture all of those obligations.
Comparable buildings
- Lane Towers: a Forest Hills postwar property whose apartments trade as cooperative shares, useful for comparing tenure and staffed service.
- Kennedy House: a larger Forest Hills cooperative tower for comparing upper-floor outlooks and a more extensive amenity program.
- Horizon Towers: a farther Queens condominium with separate commercial and parking interests, relevant to the mixed-use ownership structure.
- Shore Towers: a larger condominium tower in Astoria for buyers prioritizing condominium tenure and open exposures.
- The Crescent House: a postwar Astoria cooperative with parking for comparing the cost and service structure of co-op ownership.
More Forest Hills buildings
- 4 Dartmouth Street — 1931 co-op
- 64-34 Grand Central Parkway, 64-34 Grand Central Parkway service road — 2009 condominium
- 78-14 Austin Street — 1932 co-op
- 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 neighborhood
For the full neighborhood — its buildings, character, and market — read The Roebling Team Guide to Forest Hills.
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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