73-12 35th Avenue (Washington Plaza)
73-12 35th Avenue, Jackson Heights, NY 11372
Jackson Heights, Queens
BBL 4012730001 · BIN 4029556
- Year built
- 1940
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 198
- Floors
- 6
- Amenities
- Gated grounds with attended gatehouse and part-time doorman; landscaped central court with pond and cascading fountain; fitness center; two laundry rooms; bicycle room; private storage; live-in superintendent
- Landmark status
- Requires confirmation
- City records and our profile differ. Confirm with building management.
- Doorman
- Part-time doorman
Every recorded sale at this building, 2016–2026
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf, 2026 to date
- $578
- 4 sales
- Listing discount
- 0.0%
- Recorded sales
- 127
- On record
- 2016–2026
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at Washington Plaza would likely sell for today, what it costs to sell, and what you’d walk away with — reviewed personally against condition, exposures, renovation quality, and the competition actually on the market.
Washington Plaza has a substantial recorded sales sample in the reviewed neighborhood data — roughly 127 recorded transactions against a market of nearly 13,000 spread over 3,463 addresses. That sample needs a qualification: because the corporation converted only in 2016, most of that record — about 99 of the 127 sales — is each apartment's first recorded sale out of the conversion rather than a resale. Those first sales are classed arm's-length and carry no sponsor flag in the dataset, so the neighborhood's 94.8 percent arm's-length figure does not screen them out, and a comparable set pulled from this building without separating first sales from resales reads the sponsor's pricing schedule as market evidence.
Everything else follows from the site plan. Six six-story wings sit on a 59,000-square-foot block arranged so the lobby entries form a horseshoe and the entire interior is a landscaped court with a pond, cascading fountains and a seating area, reached through an attended gate. That is a great deal of ground given over to open space in a neighborhood where open space is the product, and it is why apartments here carry three exposures and cross-ventilation no renovation could manufacture. The complex has been recognized for historical and architectural merit by the Queens Historical Society.
The 2016 conversion cuts both ways. Apartments and building systems were renovated at conversion, within the last decade; their current condition and the near-term capital calendar need confirming from recent engineering reports and board materials. Against that, a young corporation has a short financial history and reserve record, and a sponsor position that may still be substantial. Lenders scrutinize sponsor and investor concentration in share loans, and a high figure narrows the list of banks willing to write in a building — a resale problem as much as a purchase problem, and the first question to put to the managing agent.
Third, the district. This address is three blocks west of the 1993 Landmarks boundary, which begins at 76th Street, and no lot on this block carries the city district in municipal records. What it carries is the 1999 State and National Register district — recognition and a tax-credit designation, with no Certificate of Appropriateness and no restriction on private alteration. Façade, window and roof work here is a Department of Buildings matter and nothing more, cheaper and faster than the same work inside the city district.
Architecture and unit composition
Sylvan Bien's plan is Art Deco in detail and garden-apartment in logic: brick, restrained, ornament concentrated at the six lobby entries. About 194,450 square feet on a 200-by-295-foot lot, a ratio of 3.30 in an R7-1 district; that simple comparison does not establish legal zoning floor area or what future work is permitted. The unbuilt remainder is the courtyard.
Confirm the apartment mix from the offering-plan schedule. The energy filing reports 384 bedrooms against roughly 190-odd residences — an aggregate ratio of about two bedrooms per apartment that does not establish how bedrooms are distributed among units. Three-bedroom, two-bath layouts exist here, a scarce product in Queens cooperatives at this price level and a large part of why the building draws buyers from outside the neighborhood. Line letters correspond to the six entries; same-line sales can help, but other suitably adjusted apartments may also be comparable.
Building operations
A gated, part-time-doorman operation with an attended gatehouse and a live-in superintendent — more staff than the typical Jackson Heights walk-up corporation, less than a full-service Queens Boulevard building. Compare actual maintenance and assessments rather than inferring their level from the staffing model. Amenity space includes a fitness center, two laundry rooms, bicycle storage and private storage. City records show alteration filings in 2020 and again in 2024, consistent with continued capital work after the conversion.
The building carries a C grade under Local Law 33, an ENERGY STAR score of 66 and site energy use intensity around 80 kBtu per square foot on natural gas. That is mid-pack for the block, but weaker than the newly-renovated presentation suggests, and reported emissions intensity sits above the Local Law 97 threshold taking effect in 2030 — for a corporation this young, the most identifiable future capital call on the record. The reviewed material does not establish current reserves, assessments or underlying-debt terms; request audited statements and loan documents, using recorded instruments as supporting evidence where available.
Policy framework
Nothing in the policy stack for this building is documented in materials on file — not the financing ceiling, not the flip tax, not the sublet policy, not pets, not pied-à-terre use, and not post-closing liquidity requirements. This page does not guess at them. For a 2016 conversion the offering plan is recent, complete and authoritative; get it from the managing agent along with the current house rules before making an offer, and treat any figure quoted in a listing as unverified until you have seen it in the plan.
The one term to prioritize is the current sponsor-held and investor-held share count. In a recent conversion this is not a formality: it determines which lenders will write a share loan, and therefore who your buyer pool is when you sell.
Monthly carrying charges in recent sales
- Maintenance, per room
- $286 per room a monthMedian of 12 recorded sales since October 2023Source: recorded sales, refreshed October 2026
- Maintenance, per square foot
- $1.22 per square foot a monthMedian of 11 recorded sales since October 2023Source: recorded sales, refreshed October 2026
Maintenance as recorded with each sale. A co-op's maintenance already covers the building's real estate taxes and the building's own mortgage, if it has one; add your own loan payment for the monthly outlay. A summary of recorded sales, not a current bill; charges change.
Building staffing and amenities
- Doorman
- Part-time doormanSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Live-in superintendent
- YesSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Elevator
- YesSource: NYC Department of City Planning records (PLUTO)
- Amenities noted
- Fitness room, bike storage, storage, laundry roomSource: 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. Outdoor space, parking and some facilities can belong to particular apartments or to a separate owner; confirm access for the specific apartment.
Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available FISP filing classified the facade as Safe — no repairs were required at that inspection. A filed Safe grade is not a guarantee of current condition: owners still maintain the facade and, where required, observe parapets each year. Future inspection timing (Local Law 49 of 2025 changed the cycle framework from October 1, 2026), repair and any assessment decisions remain building-specific.
How to read this, and where it comes from
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — a licensed professional engineer or registered architect who meets DOB’s FISP qualifications and signs the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent).
Penalties shown are amounts DOB assessed against filings on record across 2005–10 to 2025–30. The FISP dataset does not record whether they were paid, contested or remain open, so treat the figure as history rather than a current balance and confirm the building’s standing with the managing agent.
Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library. City data last refreshed September 2026.
Recent sales
Room count, verified interior area and maintenance can all inform cooperative comparisons. This recent conversion has offering-plan areas; use per-foot comparisons only where the alternatives' areas are also reliable. Inside the building the spread is driven by line and exposure, with court-facing upper floors carrying a clear premium over street-facing lower floors, and by bedroom count, where the three-bedroom inventory competes against a very thin field anywhere in Queens at this price level.
The in-building record is deep enough to price from once sponsor closings are separated out. Where the neighborhood's other large corporations offer forty-year resale histories across multiple cycles, this one offers a decade, most of it in one direction. Widen the read by pairing it against the 1980s-converted stock on the same avenue. 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, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 2026 | C52 | 2 BR · 1 BA · 1,020 sf | $675,000 | $662/sf | +0.0% |
| Jul 10, 2026 | C35 | 2 BR · 1 BA | $615,000 | -1.6% | |
| Jun 3, 2026 | A65 | 2 BR · 1 BA · 1,100 sf | $715,000 | $650/sf | -2.1% |
| Mar 30, 2026 | D56 | 1 BR · 1 BA · 938 sf | $475,000 | $506/sf | +0.0% |
| Jan 28, 2026 | C24 | 1 BR · 1 BA · 954 sf | $472,500 | $495/sf | -2.1% |
| Oct 27, 2025 | C51 | 3 BR · 2 BA · 1,518 sf | $1,210,000 | $797/sf | -3.2% |
| Jul 11, 2025 | B44 | 1 BR · 1 BA · 886 sf | $480,000 | $542/sf | -1.8% |
| Jun 16, 2025 | A62 | 1 BR · 1 BA · 916 sf | $462,000 | $504/sf | -4.7% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026 to date) cleared a median $578/sf (recorded) across 4 sales. Median listing discount 0.0% from the last ask.
The retrade record
Lines that have traded more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
Other recent transfers
| Date | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 2017 | F3 | $425,462 |
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 4-01273-0001). 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 on co-ops is not officially recorded, figures shown are approximate.
Closed rents at Washington Plaza, last 36 months
| Size | Leases | Median / month |
|---|---|---|
| 1 bedroom | 4 | $3,072 |
| 2 bedroom | 4 | $3,847 |
Also $42 per sq ft per year (9 leases that report square footage). 9 closed sublet leases, October 2023 to September 2026. Most recent lease February 2026. Sizes with fewer than 2 leases are not shown. Compiled by The Roebling Team at Compass from closed leases.
What would your apartment rent for?
The figures above are the building's closed leases. Enter your apartment and I'll send you what yours would rent for, from comparable leases at Washington Plaza and nearby.
At the recent median sale of $615K (13 transfers in the past 24 months, since October 21, 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $10,856 to close, or 1.8% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $0
- No mortgage recording tax or title insurance on a co-op purchase
- Attorneys, lender, building fees and filings: $10,856
Assumes a resale (the seller pays transfer taxes), a $4,500 attorney fee and a mortgage on the rest.
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What to know at Washington Plaza
Separate sponsor closings from resales before comping anything. First-sale terms and resale terms may differ; separating them makes the comparable analysis clearer without predetermining the price conclusion.
Ask for the current sponsor and investor share count in writing. It governs financeability, and financeability governs resale.
Do not pay a premium for landmark status. The address is outside the 1993 city district and inside the 1999 Register district, which protects nothing about a privately funded building.
Read the offering plan for the whole policy stack. It exists, it is recent, and every board term above is undocumented without it.
Budget the 2030 energy question. A C grade on a recently renovated building means the compliance work is not finished.
Comparable buildings
- 35-36 76th Street (Colonial Court) — 1940 elevator cooperative of similar vintage, also outside the city district, on 1980s-conversion terms
- 35-20 Leverich Street — the deepest single-address sale record in Jackson Heights
- 70-35 Broadway — the third of the three deepest neighborhood records, on the western commercial edge
- 35-46 74th Street — 1936 elevator cooperative on the adjoining block, A energy grade, directly cross-shopped
- Hawthorne Court (35-33 76th Street) — the 1922 Queensboro garden complex inside the 1993 city district; the designated-district alternative
- 110-11 Queens Boulevard (Kennedy House) — the full-service Forest Hills comparison for buyers weighing staff against price per room
More Jackson Heights buildings
- 34-58 90th Street — 1928 co-op
- 35-36 76th Street (Colonial Court) — 1940 co-op
- 91-10 34th Avenue — 1928 condominium
- Adelphia Hall, 89-10 35th Avenue — 1931 co-op
- Elm Court, 34-42 80th Street — 1921
- Somerset House, 34-10 75th Street — 1952 co-op
The neighborhood
For the full neighborhood — its buildings, character, and market — read The Roebling Team Guide to Jackson Heights.
The full playbook — what goes in the package, how boards read your financials, the interview, and the timeline — plus sample cover, reference, and personal letters you can adapt.
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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