The Towers
33-39 80th Street, between Northern Boulevard and 34th Avenue · Jackson Heights, Queens
BBL 4012530011 · BIN 4431310
- Year built
- 1923
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 114
- Floors
- 6
- Landmark
- Designated
- Amenities
- Private garden, elevators, laundry facilities, resident superintendent and storage
Every recorded sale at this building, 2005–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 4BR+ median
- $1.2M
- Recent range
- $940K – $1.4M
- Listing discount
- 0.0%
- Recorded transfers
- 30
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The Towers is an eight-building garden-apartment cooperative designed by Andrew J. Thomas for the Queensboro Corporation in 1923–1925. The buildings face 80th and 81st Streets, with a landscaped garden between them. This page centers on the 33-39 80th Street entrance within that larger cooperative.
The garden is the organizing feature of the complex. Freestanding buildings, gaps between them and broad interior open space give the apartments several possible orientations, including street, side and garden exposures. Large prewar homes here can have windows facing more than one direction, with separate dining rooms and substantial room proportions.
The address is especially relevant to buyers seeking a sizeable apartment within a historic garden cooperative. The inventory at this entrance includes large multi-bedroom homes, and its sales history reflects that scale. Common ownership covers a much larger property than the individual entrance suggests.
Architecture and unit composition
LPC describes eight U-shaped buildings arranged back-to-back around the landscaped interior. Each street frontage alternates two building designs in a symmetrical sequence. Corner towers mark the ends of the composition, while the inner buildings have centrally emphasized entrances.
The architectural detail includes red tile roofs, arched openings, masonry trim and iron-and-glass entrance doors. Stone griffins flank the garden gates. The garden is visible from 34th Avenue, but it is a private common space for the cooperative.
The apartments at 33-39 80th Street include substantial six- and seven-room configurations, with separate dining areas and multiple bathrooms in larger layouts. Fireplaces and original wood floors occur in the inventory. Individual renovations have changed interior finishes and room arrangements, so historic architectural character is more consistently expressed in the shared exterior than in every apartment's kitchen or bath.
Recent transfers at this entrance include homes with reported interior areas well above 1,000 square feet. Several are in the range associated with full multi-bedroom prewar plans. These larger configurations form the useful local comparison group when evaluating a home here; a compact apartment elsewhere in the complex may represent a different floor-plan history.
The complex's buildings are six stories, with elevators providing access to the residential floors. Garden-facing and street-facing rooms can coexist in one home. The relevant distinction is the direction of each principal room, including whether the living and dining areas look into the central landscape or toward the street.
Building operations
One cooperative board governs the eight buildings. A resident superintendent and additional building staff serve the property, while laundry facilities are provided within the buildings. Storage is available, and the extensive shared garden is a common maintenance responsibility.
The 114-residence figure refers to the cooperative complex, not to 114 apartments behind this single entrance. That scale affects how common costs are shared. A purchaser at 33-39 participates in the broader cooperative's property, landscape and capital obligations alongside owners using the other entrances.
Historic-district designation places the exterior and visible site features within LPC's review framework. The tiled roofs, masonry details, windows and garden enclosures are therefore part of the cooperative's long-term preservation work. An apartment alteration affecting an exterior window must fit the building's approved treatment.
The property is in tax class 2, without a statutory assessment-growth cap, and no building-wide abatement is identified. Property taxes are carried through cooperative maintenance. Built FAR is below the current residential zoning allowance, but the protected garden-apartment layout is central to this property; the zoning number alone doesn't point to a practical development opportunity.
Recent sales
Recent transfers at this building, curated by The Roebling Team research desk. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 2026 | 22 | 4 BR · 3 BA | $999,000 | -16.8% | |
| Mar 26, 2026 | 1 | 4 BR · 3 BA | $1,175,000 | +0.0% | |
| Feb 5, 2025 | 41 | 4 BR · 2.5 BA · 1,750 sf | $1,355,000 | $774/sf | +4.6% |
| Apr 12, 2024 | 1 | 3 BR · 2 BA | $940,000 | +0.0% | |
| Nov 9, 2022 | 21 | 4 BR · 2 BA · 1,600 sf | $1,250,000 | $781/sf | -2.0% |
| Jul 7, 2022 | 42 | 3 BR · 2 BA · 1,400 sf | $1,150,000 | $821/sf | +0.0% |
| Oct 22, 2020 | 41 | 3 BR · 2 BA · 1,300 sf | $880,000 | $677/sf | -2.1% |
| Jul 9, 2019 | 1 | 3 BR · 2 BA · 1,300 sf | $967,500 | $744/sf | -0.8% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2025): a median $774/sf across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2026. 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 4-01253-0011) and verified listing data. Apartment-level facts (line, condition, asking-price context) curated and cross-verified by The Roebling Team research desk. 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.
At the recent median sale of $1.18M (3 transfers since 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $24,706 to close, or 2.1% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $11,750
- No mortgage recording tax or title insurance on a co-op purchase
- Attorneys, lender, building fees and filings: $12,956
Assumes a resale (the seller pays transfer taxes), a $4,500 attorney fee and a mortgage on the rest.
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Comparable buildings
- Colonial Court — A nearby cooperative of comparable overall inventory size, with a later architectural character.
- Washington Plaza — A larger Jackson Heights cooperative for comparing landscaped common space and a broader resale inventory.
- The Crescent House — A farther Queens cooperative with a lower-rise form and postwar apartment layouts.
- Plymouth Hall — A prewar cooperative alternative for buyers comparing period interiors across western Queens.
- Horizon Towers — A smaller condominium alternative for buyers considering a different tenure and more recent construction.
More Jackson Heights buildings
- Stratford Hall, 80-09 35th Avenue — 1941 condominium
- Terrace View, 79-10 34th Avenue — 1955 co-op
- The Berkeley, 35-25 77th Street — 1936 co-op
- The Chateau, 34-38 81st Street — 1922 co-op
- The Evergreen, 37-21 80th Street — co-op
- The Fillmore, 83-10 35th Avenue — 1930 co-op
The neighborhood
For the full neighborhood — its buildings, character, and market — read The Roebling Team Guide to Jackson Heights.
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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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