5 Court Square West
5 Court Square West, Long Island City, NY 11101
Long Island City, Queens
BBL 4000817501 · BIN 4619672
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 58
- Floors
- 11
- Flip tax
- Not documented in the records reviewed
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; not in a historic district
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission and City Planning records, updated February 2026
- Pied-à-terre
- Permitted
- Pets
- Pets permitted; species and limits not stated
- Doorman
- Doorman (hours not stated)
Every recorded sale at this building, 2020–2023
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf (floor-adjusted)
- $1,491
- Listing discount
- 0.0%
- Recorded sales
- 37
- On record
- 2020–2023
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5 Court Square is the smallest kind of building that Long Island City's Court Square boom produced, and that is the whole argument for it.
The Court Square district rebuilt itself between roughly 2015 and 2022 around towers — Skyline Tower at 802 units, the rental slabs on Jackson Avenue and Queens Plaza, the 40- and 50-story glass shafts that turned the skyline of western Queens into something visible from Midtown. 5 Court Square is not one of those. It is eleven stories on a 7,750-square-foot wedge of land, with 58 residences and a ground-floor commercial base, and it sits between two much larger neighbors: a 20-story rental at 25-34 Jackson Avenue and a nine-story condominium at 27-19 Thomson Avenue, both completed in 2021.
What that buys a purchaser is a genuinely small building at a genuinely central address. The Court Square subway complex is across the street — the E, M and G at Court Square–23rd Street, the 7 at Court Square — which puts Midtown Manhattan within a single stop of the 7 and Lexington Avenue within roughly ten minutes. Very little for-sale inventory in Long Island City combines that transit position with a 58-unit common charge base. The tower product on either side carries amenity floors, larger staffs and correspondingly larger operating budgets; 5 Court Square carries a daytime doorman, a gym, a playroom and a lounge, and spreads a much smaller cost base across a much smaller building.
The building's other distinguishing move is technological rather than architectural. ZD Jasper specified the residences as an integrated smart-home package rather than as a list of appliances: Latch entry at the building door, Nest thermostats and smoke detectors, Wemo switches on every room, Bosch kitchen appliances on Home Connect, Hunter Douglas shades on motorized Wi-Fi controls, and Google Assistant installed out of the box. In 2019 that was unusual specification for the price tier; in 2026 it is a maintenance question as much as a selling point, and a buyer should treat it as one. Proprietary home-automation hardware ages faster than cabinetry.
The finishes underneath the technology are conventional in the best sense and are worth naming because they photograph and they hold up: 10-foot ceilings, triple-pane glazing, GD Arredamenti Italian oak cabinetry, wide Croatian oak plank floors, polished Calacatta and honed Calatorao stone in the bathrooms, and heated bathroom floors. The all-glass façade is what a compact corner site on Jackson Avenue permits — light on three exposures rather than an architectural statement.
Architecture and unit composition
The building is eleven stories of curtain wall on a compact corner lot of roughly 7,750 square feet, carrying approximately 60,700 square feet of built area. The ground floor is given to commercial space of roughly 5,000 square feet; the residential floors above hold 58 apartments, running from studios through two- and three-bedroom configurations, with the eleventh floor carrying the residents' lounge and its balcony.
The plan is driven by the geometry of the parcel. The site is a wedge where Jackson Avenue meets Thomson Avenue and Court Square West, and the resulting floorplate produces angled corner residences with more window wall than a rectangular lot would yield at this size. Ceiling heights of ten feet are consistent across the residential inventory, which is generous for a mid-rise of this vintage and price tier and is the specification most responsible for how the apartments show.
Interior specifications are uniform across the building rather than tiered by floor: Italian oak kitchen cabinetry, Bosch appliances with vented stoves, Signature fixtures in satin-pearl black, Croatian oak plank flooring, and bathrooms in polished Calacatta and honed Calatorao stone with radiant floor heating.
Building operations
5 Court Square operates as a self-contained small condominium. Staffing is a daytime doorman rather than a 24-hour attended lobby, plus a superintendent — a deliberate calibration for a 58-unit building, and the single most important operating fact for a buyer comparing this building to the towers on either side. Package handling is resolved with a package room and an Amazon Hub rather than with a staffed desk overnight.
The amenity set is short and useful rather than broad: fitness center, children's playroom, eleventh-floor residents' lounge with a balcony, bicycle room, and private storage available for purchase subject to availability. There is no pool, no spa, and no attended garage, and the common charge reflects that.
The commercial condominium unit on the ground floor is a structural feature a purchaser should understand. In a 58-residence building, a non-residential unit carries a meaningful share of the common interest, and its owner's arrears or vacancy affect the residential owners more than the same unit would in a 250-unit building. Ask the managing agent for the current common-interest allocation, the status of the commercial unit's common charges, and whether the sponsor retains any unsold residential inventory.
No audited financial statements, offering plan, house rules or board communications for this building are held in The Roebling Research Library as of this writing. Reserve position, assessment history and capital posture should therefore be pulled directly at diligence rather than assumed.
Policy framework
Ownership form. Condominium. Transfers proceed through a board right of first refusal rather than a cooperative-style approval, which means faster closings and a wider buyer pool — including pied-à-terre, LLC, trust, investor and foreign purchasers — than a comparable cooperative would allow.
Pets. Permitted, per listing and brokerage records. Any weight, breed or registration conditions are not documented in the records reviewed.
Subletting. Governed by the condominium's by-laws and house rules, which are not held in The Roebling Research Library. Minimum lease term, application process and any board-imposed cap on rented units should be confirmed with the managing agent before an investor purchase.
Flip tax and transfer fees. Not documented in the records reviewed.
Property taxes. Not documented in the records reviewed. Confirm the abatement position on the specific unit — a running 421-a benefit and an expired one produce very different True Monthly Carrying Cost outcomes on the same apartment.
Application and transaction fees
Fees below are from building management's published schedule, as of September 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Processing FeePaid to managementRequired | Paid by Buyer | When With the application | Amount $500 | Refundable Non-refundable |
| Closing Document Preparation FeePaid to the building | Paid by Buyer | When With the application | Amount $250 | Refundable Non-refundable |
| Credit Check FeePer applicantPaid to management | Paid by Buyer | When With the application | Amount $75 per applicant/adult applicant | Refundable Non-refundable |
| Move-In FeePaid to the building | Paid by Buyer | When With the application | Amount $500 | Refundable Non-refundable |
| Working Capital FeePaid to the building | Paid by Buyer | When At closing | Amount Equal to two month's common charge | Refundable Non-refundable |
Deposits
| Item | Paid by | When | Amount | Refundable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Move-In DepositPaid to the building | Paid by Buyer | When With the application | Amount $1,000 | Refundable Refundable |
Rental or lease
5 items
Fees and charges
| Item | Paid by | When | Amount | Refundable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Processing FeePaid to managementRequired | Paid by Tenant | When With the application | Amount $300 | Refundable Non-refundable |
| Credit Check FeePer applicantPaid to management | Paid by Tenant | When With the application | Amount $150 per applicant/adult applicant | Refundable Non-refundable |
| Move In FeePaid to the building | Paid by Tenant | When With the application | Amount $500 | Refundable Non-refundable |
Deposits
| Item | Paid by | When | Amount | Refundable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Move In DepositPaid to the building | Paid by Tenant | When With the application | Amount $1,000 | Refundable Refundable |
Lease renewal
Fees and charges
| Item | Paid by | When | Amount | Refundable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Processing FeePaid to managementRequired | Paid by Tenant | When With the application | Amount $150 | Refundable Non-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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Sublet and pied-à-terre policy
A condominium owner leasing a unit and a co-op shareholder subletting are different rules, and a building-wide rule is different from a restriction on one apartment. This is the building's rule; confirm it for the specific apartment.
- Leasing by owners
- Not verified
- Pied-à-terre ownership
- PermittedSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
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Pets and in-unit washer/dryer
- Pets
- Pets permitted; species and limits not statedSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- In-unit washer/dryer
- Not verified
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Building staffing and amenities
- Doorman
- Doorman (hours not stated)Source: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Attended lobby
- YesSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Package room
- YesSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Elevator
- YesSource: NYC Department of Buildings elevator records
- Amenities noted
- Fitness room, residents' lounge, playroom, bike storage, storageSource: 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.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $17,325/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $25
- Modeled exposure split equally across 58 units (the city tax-lot count). Not an assessed amount; co-op shareholders are typically charged by share allocation.
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
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5 Court Square trades as boutique new-development product in a district defined by towers, and its pricing behaves accordingly. Long Island City's for-sale market is priced principally in dollars per square foot, and within that market the Court Square pocket sits above the Queens Plaza inventory and below the Hunters Point waterfront, where park frontage and river views carry their own premium.
Against the towers, 5 Court Square trades amenity depth and doorman coverage for a smaller common charge base and a much smaller building. Against the Hunters Point waterfront condominiums, it trades views and parkland for a transit position that no waterfront building matches — the Court Square complex is across the street rather than a ten-minute walk. Against the district's loft conversions, it trades character and ceiling height for new systems and a building envelope less than a decade old.
The building's practical pricing anchor is line-specific rather than building-wide. On a wedge-shaped floorplate, the angled corner residences and the interior lines are different products, and recent comparables on the same line move a negotiation more reliably than a building average. The eleventh-floor lounge and the higher floors' open exposures over the low-rise fabric toward Thomson Avenue also carry real value that the average does not capture.
Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
Recent closings at this building, from The Roebling Research Library. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 2023 | 7ESponsor Sale | 2 BR · 2 BA · 878 sf | $1,335,000 | $1,521/sf | -1.1% |
| Feb 24, 2023 | PHASponsor Sale | 3 BR · 3 BA · 1,635 sf | $2,650,000 | $1,621/sf | +0.0% |
| Sep 30, 2022 | 9FSponsor Sale | 3 BR · 3 BA · 1,621 sf | $2,250,000 | $1,388/sf | +0.0% |
| Sep 30, 2022 | 4GSponsor Sale | 1 BR · 1 BA · 581 sf | $790,000 | $1,360/sf | +0.0% |
| Sep 30, 2022 | 7GSponsor Sale | 1 BR · 1 BA · 581 sf | $820,000 | $1,411/sf | +0.0% |
| Sep 30, 2022 | PHCSponsor Sale | 3 BR · 3 BA · 1,765 sf | $2,785,000 | $1,578/sf | +0.0% |
| Mar 3, 2022 | 10FSponsor Sale | 3 BR · 3 BA · 1,621 sf | $2,225,000 | $1,373/sf | -1.1% |
| Aug 19, 2021 | 2DSponsor Sale | 2 BR · 2 BA · 886 sf | $1,235,000 | $1,394/sf | -2.0% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2023) cleared a median $1,491/sf (floor-adjusted) across 1 sale. Floor-adjusted means each sale is restated to a constant mix of floors, so the figure can differ from the plain median of the sales listed above. Median listing discount 0.0% from the last ask.
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 4-00081-7501). Apartment-level facts (line, condition, asking-price context) curated and cross-verified in The Roebling Research Library. Not all transactions cross-verify with ACRIS records — sponsor and LLC purchases sometimes record at stipulated values rather than market price; square footage from recorded condo declarations and offering plans.
Closed rents at 5 Court Square, last 36 months
3 closed leases, October 2023 to September 2026. Most recent lease September 2026. Based on few leases. Compiled by The Roebling Team at Compass from closed leases.
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What to know if you’re buying
Confirm the tax position first. Long Island City is the borough's densest concentration of 421-a benefits, and the difference between a running abatement and an expired one is the largest single variable in the carrying cost of a unit here.
The doorman is daytime, not 24-hour. For some buyers that is a feature and a saving; for others it is disqualifying. Know which you are before you tour.
Ask about the commercial unit. In a 58-residence condominium, the ground-floor commercial unit's common-interest share and payment history matter. Get both in writing.
Treat the smart-home package as a system, not a finish. Latch, Nest, Wemo, Hunter Douglas and Bosch Home Connect all depend on manufacturer support and building network infrastructure. Ask what has been replaced since 2019 and what the building supports centrally.
No plan or financials are on file here. Pull the offering plan, the current budget, the most recent audited statements and the assessment history from the managing agent rather than relying on secondary sources.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with the transit position. Across the street from a four-line subway complex, one stop from Manhattan on the 7 — that is the strongest single fact about this address, and it is not reproducible.
Sell the ceiling height and the light. Ten-foot ceilings and triple-pane glass on an angled corner floorplate photograph better than the building's exterior does. The apartments are the product.
Price to the line, not to the building. Corner and interior lines behave differently on this floorplate; anchor to the nearest comparable on the same line.
Be direct about staffing. A daytime doorman in a 58-unit building is a cost structure, not an omission. Buyers comparing against 800-unit towers should hear it framed as a lower common charge rather than discover it on tour.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 5 Court Square, also evaluate:
- 3 Court Square (Skyline Tower) — the 802-residence tower a block away; the full-amenity, high-floor alternative at the same subway complex
- 22-18 Jackson Avenue (Galerie) — contemporary Jackson Avenue condominium; the closest new-development peer on the same corridor
- 27-28 Thomson Avenue (Arris Lofts) — the 1920s Eagle Electric factory converted in 2007; the character-and-ceiling-height alternative one block south, with a lap pool and courtyard
- The Dutch (25-19 43rd Avenue) — boutique Court Square condominium of similar scale and vintage
- Prime LIC (22-43 Jackson Avenue) — another ZD Jasper condominium on the same avenue; the most direct sponsor comparison
- Corte (21-30 44th Drive) — mid-rise Court Square condominium with a comparable amenity calibration
- The Industry (21-45 44th Drive) — Court Square condominium of similar unit count and finish tier
- Nexus LIC (41-14 27th Street) — Queens Plaza condominium; the price comparison one stop north
- The Harrison (27-21 44th Drive) — full-service Court Square condominium; the amenity-heavier local peer
- QNS44 (11-12 44th Drive) — boutique Long Island City condominium; the smallest-scale local comparison
More Long Island City buildings
- 3 Court Square (Skyline Tower) — 2018 condominium by Hill West Architects
- 41st Avenue Condominium — 2005 condominium
- 46-30 Center Boulevard (The View) — new-construction condominium by Handel Architects
- Arcadia LIC, 24-12 42nd Road — 2016 condominium
- Citylights at Queens Landing, 4-74 48th Avenue — 1996 co-op
- Echelon, 13-11 Jackson Avenue — 2006 condominium
The neighborhood
For the full neighborhood — its buildings, character, and market — read The Roebling Team Guide to Long Island City.
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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