35-36 76th Street (Colonial Court)
35-36 76th Street, Jackson Heights, NY 11372
BBL 4012750020 · BIN 4029566
- Year built
- 1940
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 114
- Floors
- 6
- Landmark
- No
- Amenities
- Full-length landscaped rear garden with seating; laundry room; recreation room; basement exercise room; bicycle room; children's playroom; storage; live-in superintendent
- Financing
- Listing and brokerage records report a 20 percent minimum down payment; not verified against an offering plan on file
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 2BR median
- $730K
- Recent range
- $450K – $1.2M
- Listing discount
- 0.0%
- Recorded transfers
- 165
Start with the name, because the record is wrong about it. This building is routinely circulated as "Hawthorne Court," and it is not. Hawthorne Court is the 1922 Queensboro Corporation garden complex of fourteen five-story neo-Georgian walk-ups around a private interior garden, on the other side of 76th Street — the odd-numbered addresses on 76th and the even numbers on 77th, one block east. Each of those fourteen buildings is separately incorporated; there is no single Hawthorne Court corporation, and none of them is this one. City records show a 1940 building, six stories, one structure, 114 apartments, owned by 76th Street Owners Corp. Comping this address against Hawthorne Court sales means comping a 1940 elevator building against a 1922 walk-up under a different board.
The second correction is one street width wide and carries real money. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 1993 Jackson Heights Historic District begins at 76th Street and runs east to 88th, and its boundary takes in the east blockfront. Hawthorne Court is inside it. This building, on the west blockfront, is outside — every lot across the street carries the district in city records, and not one lot on this block does. Exterior work here needs a Department of Buildings permit and nothing else: no Certificate of Appropriateness, no Commission review schedule, no outside specification standard. For a 114-unit corporation facing a window replacement or a façade cycle, that is a materially cheaper and faster capital process than the buildings visible from its own front door face. What the address does carry is the 1999 State and National Register district, roughly 69th to 93rd Streets between Northern Boulevard and Roosevelt Avenue — recognition and a tax-credit designation, restricting nothing a private owner does to a privately funded building. Conflating the two is the standard Jackson Heights error, and here it runs in the direction that costs a buyer money.
Third, the corporation is much younger than the building — a 1940 physical plant inside a forty-year-old legal entity, the neighborhood norm. The offering plan, not the construction date, explains the balance sheet: conversion terms, engineer's report, and what the sponsor kept.
Architecture and unit composition
One continuous six-story mass running the full 306-foot blockfront: about 108,000 square feet on a 30,600-square-foot lot, built to a floor area ratio of 3.53 in an R7-1 district. It is the plainer, later cousin of the garden apartments opposite — brick, restrained, an elevator building from the tail of the pre-war period rather than a 1920s walk-up group. The building occupies an 80-foot depth on a 100-foot lot, leaving a landscaped garden with seating along the full length of the rear. That is private land belonging to the corporation, not a public park; access runs with the shares.
The mix reads predominantly one- and two-bedroom: the corporation's energy filing reports 143 bedrooms across 114 units, about 1.25 per apartment, with 90 percent of floor area both heated and cooled. Room dimensions are pre-war generous for the square footage, and layouts of this vintage carry foyers and separate dining areas that newer product of the same footprint does not.
Building operations
A single-building, gas-heated operation with a live-in superintendent rather than doorman staff, which is the main reason maintenance sits below the doorman co-ops on the Queens Boulevard corridor. Amenity space is basement-level and functional: laundry, recreation room, exercise room, bicycle and general storage, children's playroom.
Energy posture is a genuine strength. The building carries a B grade with an ENERGY STAR score of 84 under Local Law 33, on a block where the neighboring lots run C, D and F, at about 75 kBtu per square foot on natural gas with no fuel oil reported. Against the Local Law 97 caps that step down in 2030, a building at this efficiency has a shorter and cheaper path than most of the pre-war stock around it — though reported emissions intensity still sits modestly above the 2030 threshold, so ask what the board has scoped rather than treating the grade as settling the question. Reserve balance, assessment history and underlying mortgage maturity are not in the public record here; request the audited statements before an offer.
Policy framework
Financing. Listing and brokerage records report a 20 percent minimum down payment — the neighborhood's common term and plausible, but not verified against an offering plan or purchase application on file. Confirm it in writing.
Subletting. Reported as permitted with board approval. Duration limits, waiting periods and sublet fees are not documented, and those three, not the yes-or-no, decide whether an apartment has an exit other than resale.
Pets, pied-à-terre use, flip tax and post-closing liquidity requirements are not documented in materials on file. Do not assume a Jackson Heights default; these terms vary corporation to corporation and are published nowhere.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- Per unit / month range
- —
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
See full Local Law 97 analysis — emissions history, scenarios, methodology →Recent sales
Price this building per room, not per square foot. Most Jackson Heights cooperative inventory has no offering-plan square footage, so per-foot figures quoted in listings here are derived rather than documented. At 114 units the building turns over enough to produce a usable same-line comparable set — more than the individually incorporated walk-ups opposite can offer, where each corporation is ten or eleven apartments and a seller may have no in-building comparable at all.
Three variables drive the internal spread: floor and exposure, with garden-facing upper-floor lines carrying a premium over street-facing lower floors; renovation state, where original kitchens and baths trade at a clear discount; and the all-in monthly read net of the city's cooperative and condominium tax abatement. Against the immediate peer set the case here is the absence of Landmarks jurisdiction, the B energy grade, and a comparable set deep enough to argue from. Market statements are indexed to the last complete year.
Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
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 21, 2026 | 121 | 3 BR · 2 BA | $950,000 | +0.0% | |
| Jul 1, 2026 | 207 | 1 BR · 1 BA · 768 sf | $450,000 | $586/sf | +0.0% |
| Jun 9, 2026 | 21 | 2 BR · 2 BA | $815,000 | +0.0% | |
| Feb 27, 2026 | 52 | 2 BR · 2 BA | $780,000 | -2.4% | |
| Feb 4, 2026 | 521 | 2 BR · 1 BA | $730,000 | +0.0% | |
| Aug 21, 2025 | 41 | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,100 sf | $880,000 | $800/sf | +1.5% |
| Jul 11, 2025 | 1 | 2 BR · 2 BA | $840,000 | +0.0% | |
| Jan 3, 2025 | 123 | 1 BR · 1 BA | $460,000 | -2.1% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026) cleared a median $586/sf across 1 sale. Median listing discount 0.3% 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 4-01275-0020) 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.
What to know at Colonial Court
Confirm the building's identity before comping it. A comparable described as Hawthorne Court is across the street, in a different corporation, in a landmarked district, in a 1922 walk-up.
The address is outside the 1993 city district. Verify that against the Commission's own boundary data, then price it as the capital-cost advantage it is.
Get the offering plan, the last two audited statements and the current house rules. The down payment ceiling, sublet terms, flip tax and pet policy above are either unverified or undocumented, and all four are deal-determining.
Ask what the garden costs. The full-length rear yard is what people buy for, and it is a permanent operating expense sitting in the maintenance line, an assessment, or a reserve that is drawing down.
Sellers: lead with the energy grade and the absence of Landmarks review. Both are checkable and both are uncommon on these blocks.
Comparable buildings
- Montclair Gardens (35-35 75th Street) — the near-mirror building on the same block: 1941, six stories, 114 units, same non-designated status
- The Warwick (76-12 35th Avenue) — 1940, 82-unit elevator cooperative one block east, also outside the city district
- Hawthorne Court (35-33 76th Street) — the 1922 Queensboro garden complex directly opposite, inside the 1993 district
- 35-25 77th Street — 1936 elevator cooperative inside the district, at similar scale
- Washington Plaza (73-12 35th Avenue) — the neighborhood's largest cooperative, also outside the city district, on very different terms
- 110-11 Queens Boulevard (Kennedy House) — the Forest Hills full-service alternative
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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.
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