Somerset House
34-10 75th Street, at 34th Avenue, in Jackson Heights, Queens
BBL 4012610001 · BIN 4431323
- Year built
- 1952
- Type
- Cooperative
- Floors
- 6
- Landmark
- No
- Amenities
- Elevators, live-in superintendent, garden and patio, fitness room, laundry, bicycle storage, storage lockers and garage
- Financing
- Up to 80%, with a minimum 20% down payment — confirm with the managing agent.
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 1BR median
- $323K
- Recent range
- $299K – $499K
- Listing discount
- 3.8%
- Recorded transfers
- 148
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Somerset House is part of a two-building postwar cooperative developed along 34th Avenue in 1952. Philip Birnbaum designed the complex with apartments arranged around shared garden space. Its location on 75th Street puts the building beside the 34th Avenue pedestrian corridor and within reach of the Roosevelt Avenue transit hub.
The property's appeal includes both its shared outdoor areas and its indoor facilities. Residents have a garden and patio as well as a gym, laundry and storage. Parking is available within the complex, subject to a waiting list.
This is a postwar apartment property within a neighborhood strongly associated with earlier garden apartments. The cooperative carries the shared-garden idea into a later elevator-building format, with studios, one-bedroom homes and two-bedroom layouts. Its ownership and common operation extend beyond the individual street entrance.
Architecture and unit composition
The two buildings stand on parallel streets along 34th Avenue, with the cooperative's common gardens forming part of their residential setting. The six-story brick form has regular apartment windows and a straightforward postwar organization. Birnbaum's design places repeated apartment types around the building circulation.
The Somerset inventory includes compact studios and larger one- and two-bedroom apartments. Entrance foyers, separate kitchens and dining areas appear in the plans. Some one-bedroom layouts contain an additional windowed room that has been used for dining or work, creating flexibility beyond the principal bedroom and living room.
Corner apartments have windows on more than one side. The larger two-bedroom homes can provide substantially more usable room area than the compact interior plans. Interior renovations have changed kitchens and finishes over time, while the original room positions continue to shape the layouts.
The common garden and patio offer outdoor space without requiring an apartment-specific terrace. Their availability is part of the cooperative's shared amenity structure. The setting along 34th Avenue also connects the building to the pedestrian use of the avenue immediately outside the property.
Building operations
The complex operates with a live-in superintendent, elevators and shared laundry facilities. Additional services include a fitness room, storage lockers and bicycle storage. The garage adds a parking option to a location near a major subway interchange, although an apartment purchase does not ensure an immediately available space.
The association includes both street addresses. Repairs to shared facilities and the costs of the common grounds are therefore part of a cooperative operating at the complex level. The residential count describes that overall association, not a separate set of homes under each entrance.
Tax Class 2 applies to the property, with no statutory annual assessment-growth cap. No building-wide tax abatement is identified. Taxes are paid by the cooperative and enter its expenses alongside staffing, building systems and the operation of the shared facilities.
The R7-1 zoning entry shows a built FAR slightly below the stated residential allowance. That small numerical gap doesn't translate into a practical addition for either building. Existing building configuration and the cooperative's property rights remain relevant to any proposal to change its floor area.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 2026 | 5K | 2 BR · 1 BA · 800 sf | $395,000 | $494/sf | -1.0% |
| Jun 13, 2025 | J3 | 1 BR · 1 BA | $340,000 | -2.6% | |
| Feb 12, 2025 | 5N | 1 BR · 1 BA · 652 sf | $335,000 | $514/sf | -1.4% |
| Dec 2, 2024 | 2C | 2 BR · 1 BA | $482,000 | -1.4% | |
| Nov 15, 2024 | 1L | 2 BR · 1 BA | $439,450 | -8.3% | |
| Nov 13, 2024 | — | 5 BR · 4 BA | $1,400,000 | +2.6% | |
| Oct 17, 2024 | — | 4 BR · 2.5 BA · 1,870 sf | $1,512,000 | $809/sf | -5.5% |
| Sep 25, 2024 | 6C | 1 BR · 1 BA · 770 sf | $359,000 | $466/sf | -7.5% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026) cleared a median $494/sf across 1 sale. Median listing discount 4.5% 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 4-01261-0001) 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 $439K (7 transfers since 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $10,198 to close, or 2.3% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $0
- No mortgage recording tax or title insurance on a co-op purchase
- Attorneys, lender, building fees and filings: $10,198
Assumes a resale (the seller pays transfer taxes), a $4,500 attorney fee and a mortgage on the rest.
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What to know if you’re buying
Sponsor-sale terms are apartment-specific. Some sponsor offerings have advertised different approval and rental terms from ordinary resales. A purchaser should establish whether the apartment actually carries those rights and how long they survive a transfer; a sponsor listing elsewhere in the complex does not change the rules for a shareholder resale.
Comparable buildings
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Washington Plaza: a nearby cooperative with substantial landscaped common space for comparing garden setting and the scale of shared operations.
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Colonial Court: another Jackson Heights cooperative in the immediate area, useful for comparing apartment proportions and building scale.
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The Crescent House: a farther postwar elevator cooperative in Astoria, relevant to buyers who prioritize parking and shared outdoor space.
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Plymouth Hall: a Sunnyside elevator co-op within a condominium, useful for comparing older apartment plans and the ownership structure.
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Lane Towers: a similarly sized postwar residential association in Forest Hills, with a tower form and more extensive staffed service.
More Jackson Heights buildings
- 91-10 34th Avenue — 1928 condominium
- Adelphia Hall, 89-10 35th Avenue — 1931 co-op
- Elm Court, 34-42 80th Street — 1921
- 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 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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