46-30 Center Boulevard (The View)Recorded sales & closing prices

The condominium declaration was recorded in May 2009 and the first unit deeds were recorded in July 2009. Roughly 310 deeds have been recorded across the building's unit lots through mid-2026. The sellout was concentrated in 2009 through 2013, which accounts for close to two-thirds of all recorded transfers; since 2014 the building has settled into a steady resale rhythm of roughly six to eleven recorded deeds a year.

That resale cadence is worth reading carefully. Six to eleven transfers a year across 184 residences is a turnover rate in the mid single digits — low for new-construction condominium stock of this vintage, and consistent with a building whose owners hold rather than trade. For a buyer that means a genuinely thin same-building comparable set in any given year; for a seller it means the last two or three comparable sales carry disproportionate weight in pricing, and a stale or unrepresentative comparable can distort a valuation badly.

On a dollars-per-square-foot basis The View prices at the top of the Long Island City condominium range, and it should: the river frontage, the park, and the scarcity of for-sale product on this stretch of waterfront have no substitute in the submarket. The correct comparable set is the Court Square and Jackson Avenue new-construction condominium towers, adjusted downward for their inland positions — and adjusted very carefully for the tax difference, because those buildings carry conventional tax bills, often with 421-a phase-ins, while The View carries a PILOT. Comparing the two on headline price per foot without normalizing the carrying cost produces a wrong answer in both directions. Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.