The Dorian
72-11 110th Street, Queens, between 72nd Avenue and 72nd Road; Forest Hills
BBL 4022360001 · BIN 4052577
- Year built
- 1948
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark
- No
- Amenities
- Live-in superintendent, central laundry and attached garage
- Financing
- Up to 80%, with a 20% minimum down payment — confirm with the managing agent.
Every recorded sale at this building, 2007–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 1BR median
- $394K
- Recent range
- $345K – $810K
- Listing discount
- 1.7%
- Recorded transfers
- 45
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The Dorian is a six-story Forest Hills cooperative completed in 1948, with 53 residences and a broad range of apartment sizes. Its interiors retain features associated with the transition from prewar planning to postwar construction: entry foyers, separate dining areas and, in some homes, sunken living rooms. The attached garage and resident superintendent are practical parts of the building's appeal.
The inventory extends from studios to substantial multi-bedroom apartments, including combined homes. That spread is unusually consequential in a building of this size. A buyer looking for a compact first residence and an owner seeking more rooms may both find suitable layouts within the same cooperative, but the dimensions and room arrangements vary substantially.
The 110th Street address places the building close to Queens Boulevard and the commercial center around Austin Street. Its six-floor scale keeps the apartments within a conventional elevator apartment house, with residential entrances and garage access serving the same property.
Architecture and unit composition
The Dorian's original layouts give space to arrival and circulation. Foyers separate the entrance from the main room, and larger plans have a dining alcove or defined dining area beside the living room. Sunken living rooms introduce a step within the apartment, a feature worth accounting for when assessing the route between kitchen, entrance and seating area.
One-bedroom and junior-four configurations occupy the middle of the inventory. A junior-four dining alcove can provide a separate work or dining zone; its suitability for any additional enclosed bedroom depends on the actual plan and legal requirements. Larger homes include two- and three-bedroom arrangements, and combined apartments extend beyond the original single-apartment footprints.
Documented apartment sizes range from compact studios to homes exceeding 1,700 square feet. Some of that larger area comes from combinations. The resulting inventory is not evenly distributed by size, and a large combined residence can contain circulation or room proportions that differ from an original multi-bedroom plan.
Separate kitchens, substantial closet space and hardwood floors recur in the interiors. Renovations range from retained mid-century arrangements to opened kitchens and extensively rebuilt rooms. A floor plan showing the location of the kitchen, bathroom and original entrance is especially useful for understanding how far a renovation has altered the underlying layout.
Building operations
The cooperative has a live-in superintendent and shared laundry facilities. Its attached garage adds a separate service to the residential operation; spaces are subject to availability. A garage in the building does not mean a space transfers with every apartment.
The Class 2 tax treatment means assessed-value growth does not receive the small-building annual cap. The zoning record also shows existing built floor area above the current district's standard residential allowance. The existing six-story form, garage and internal common spaces are the relevant operating property; the zoning comparison is not evidence of an approved expansion.
Policy framework
Subletting: Permitted — confirm the waiting period, duration limits and approval requirements with the managing agent.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 2026 | 1B | 2 BR · 2 BA · 936 sf | $700,000 | $748/sf | +0.3% |
| Jun 23, 2026 | 3G | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,250 sf | $565,000 | $452/sf | -3.4% |
| Mar 6, 2026 | 3B | 3 BR · 2 BA · 1,761 sf | $810,000 | $460/sf | -0.6% |
| Oct 9, 2025 | 1C | 1 BR · 1 BA | $443,000 | -1.1% | |
| Jul 19, 2024 | 5B | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,000 sf | $485,000 | $485/sf | -4.7% |
| Apr 19, 2024 | 4F | 2 BR · 1 BA | $420,000 | -6.7% | |
| Nov 14, 2023 | 2E | 1 BR · 1 BA · 800 sf | $345,000 | $431/sf | -1.1% |
| Oct 18, 2023 | 4J | 1 BA · 475 sf | $227,000 | $478/sf | -3.4% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026) cleared a median $432/sf across 3 sales. Median listing discount 3.4% 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 4-02236-0001) 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 $700K (4 transfers since 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $11,175 to close, or 1.6% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $0
- No mortgage recording tax or title insurance on a co-op purchase
- Attorneys, lender, building fees and filings: $11,175
Assumes a resale (the seller pays transfer taxes), a $4,500 attorney fee and a mortgage on the rest.
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Comparable buildings
- Lane Towers — A taller postwar Forest Hills condop, relevant for comparing garage access and a more extensively staffed building.
- Kennedy House — A much larger Forest Hills cooperative with tower views and a broader amenity program.
- Crescent House — A postwar Queens cooperative of conventional elevator-building scale, with parking and shared outdoor space.
- Plymouth Hall — A prewar Sunnyside condop offering a comparison for older apartment layouts and shared building services.
- Washington Plaza — A Jackson Heights cooperative whose landscaped setting provides a different approach to common outdoor space.
More Forest Hills buildings
- Meadow Apartments, 110-12 64th Avenue — 1950 co-op
- Sutton Hall, 109-14 Ascan Avenue — 1932 co-op
- The Chatham, 108-25 72nd Avenue — 1939 co-op
- The Fairview, 111-45 76th Drive — 1936 co-op
- The Lafayette, 69-40 Yellowstone Boulevard — 1942 co-op
- The Milana, 106-20 70th Avenue — 2012 condominium
The neighborhood
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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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