73-12 35th Avenue (Washington Plaza)
73-12 35th Avenue, Jackson Heights, NY 11372
BBL 4012730001 · BIN 4029556
- Year built
- 1940
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 198
- Floors
- 6
- Landmark
- No
- 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
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
- $578
- Listing discount
- 0.0%
- Recorded sales
- 127
- On record
- 2016–2026
Washington Plaza is the largest cooperative in Jackson Heights and holds one of the three deepest sale records in the neighborhood — roughly 127 recorded transactions against a market of nearly 13,000 spread over 3,463 addresses. That depth needs a caveat that applies to almost nothing else here: because the corporation converted only in 2016, a large share of that record is first-sale closings out of the sponsor rather than resale between unrelated parties. Jackson Heights overall runs 94.8 percent arm's-length; this building does not, and a comparable set pulled from it without filtering by transaction type 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 came through a comprehensive renovation within the last decade — kitchens, baths, common areas and elevators are recent rather than deferred, and the near-term capital calendar for a corporation this young is normally lighter than for an 1980s conversion of the same-vintage building. Against that, a young corporation has a short financial history, a thin reserve by the standards of a forty-year-old co-op, 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 at a floor area ratio of 3.30 in an R7-1 district, well below what the zoning allows. The unbuilt remainder is the courtyard, and it is not going anywhere without a shareholder vote.
The mix skews larger than the Jackson Heights average. The energy filing reports 384 bedrooms against roughly 190-odd residences — about two bedrooms per apartment, a genuine two-bedroom building rather than a studio-and-one-bedroom building with a few larger lines. 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; comparables are only meaningful within a line and floor.
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, and the maintenance charge sits accordingly. 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. Reserve balances, assessment history and the underlying mortgage and its maturity are not in the public record here; request the audited statements.
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.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- Per unit / month range
- —
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
See full Local Law 97 analysis — emissions history, scenarios, methodology →Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available FISP filing classified the facade as Safe — no repairs were required at that inspection. Facade inspections run on a fixed five-year cycle; future inspection, repair, and any assessment decisions remain building-specific.
How to read this, and where it comes from
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — the licensed engineer the city requires to sign 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 record last verified September 2026.
Recent sales
Cooperatives price per room in Jackson Heights, and this building is no exception — offering-plan square footage exists here because the conversion is recent, but the surrounding comparable stock does not carry it, so per-foot arguments break down the moment you leave the property. 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, 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 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) cleared a median $578/sf 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) 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.
What to know at Washington Plaza
Separate sponsor closings from resales before comping anything. This is the largest analytical trap in the building, and it points toward overpaying.
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
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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.
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