Astoria buyer files demolition 4 days after $2.9M deed on 31st Drive
A buyer paid $2.9M for 23-48 31st Drive in Astoria on a deed dated Sept. 17 and filed to demolish it Sept. 21, four days later, per ACRIS and DOB NOW.
A single buyer put $4,575,000 into two adjoining lots on 31st Drive in Astoria on Sept. 17 and filed to knock down the first one four days later, a sequence that tells land buyers where an assemblage is heading before any new-building filing appears.
Why it matters
The deed for 23-48 31st Drive is dated Sept. 17 at $2,900,000, per ACRIS. On Sept. 21, two full-demolition jobs landed in DOB NOW for the address: Q01385168-I1 and Q01385172-I1, the second listed against the garage. DOB lists the existing building as a one-story, three-family house. Demolition first means the buyer is clearing the site, not renovating it.
For developers pricing nearby sites, the pace matters more than the price. Nothing in the record yet says what replaces the house.
The numbers
The buyer on the deed is 3014 21st Street LLC. Its name points to a different address, so we checked for a link to 30-14 21st Street. The record shows none: that property sits on a different block (536, versus 567 here), and its DOB filings name a different owner.
The name does not hint at a distant assemblage. The adjoining one is on 31st Drive. A second deed, also dated Sept. 17, conveys 23-50 31st Drive to the same buyer for $1,675,000. Together that is $4,575,000. A $2,750,000 mortgage dated the same day covers both lots, with 23-48 31st Drive Funding LLC as lender.
The DOB filings name DTD Partners as owner, not the deed LLC. The records do not explain the relationship, and we do not assume one. We also did not compute a price per square foot: lot area is not in the records we pulled, so the land basis per buildable foot cannot be stated yet.
What’s next
We found no demolition or new-building filing for 23-50 31st Drive as of this edition. Watch lot 146 on block 567 for one, and for a new-building application on lot 45 once the demolition clears. A zoning analysis or merger would show how the two lots are meant to combine.
More deal-to-permit sequences are tracked on our New York page.
On the record
What we checked ourselves, and where you can check it too.
- Public recordDeed dated Sept. 17 for 23-48 31st Drive, $2,900,000; DOB NOW full-demolition jobs Q01385168-I1 and Q01385172-I1 were both filed Sept. 21, four days laterView the record on a836-acris.nyc.gov
- Public recordThe same buyer took a second deed dated Sept. 17 for the neighboring 23-50 31st Drive at $1,675,000, and one $2,750,000 mortgage dated Sept. 17 covers both lotsView the record on a836-acris.nyc.gov
On the record
- Primary recordNYC Department of Finance (ACRIS)Deed, 23-48 31st Drive, $2,900,000
- Primary recordNYC Department of Finance (ACRIS)Deed, 23-50 31st Drive, $1,675,000
- Primary recordNYC Department of Finance (ACRIS)Mortgage, $2,750,000
- Also reported by
- NYC Department of Buildings (DOB NOW job filings)Full demolition filings Q01385168-I1 and Q01385172-I1