5 Court Square West
5 Court Square West, Long Island City, NY 11101
BBL 4000817501 · BIN 4619672
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 58
- Floors
- 11
- Landmark
- No
- Flip tax
- Not documented in the records reviewed
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. Architectural records describe it fairly as a squat mid-rise in the midst of two very large towers.
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.
Recent sales
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, sourced from NYC Department of Finance records. Apartment-level detail (line, condition, asking-price context) verified upon consultation request.
| Date | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 2015 | — | $15,750,000 |
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 4-00081-7501) 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.
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
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