ZD Jasper Realty Waits 268 Days, Files 93-Unit Astoria Tower
The gap between the closing and the filing is the story: nine months of quiet before the buyer put a unit count and a floor count on paper.
3525 Steinway LLC, a buying entity tied to Long Island-based ZD Jasper Realty per PincusCo, paid $17.7M for a corner lot in Astoria on Jan. 28 and waited 268 days before showing its hand, filing a 93-unit, 17-story New Building application with the Department of Buildings on Oct. 23, according to ACRIS and DOB NOW Build records.
Why it matters
Nine months between a closing and a filing is long enough to run full due diligence, design, and financing, but short enough that the buyer almost certainly knew what it intended to build when it signed the deed. The deed, document 2026012900734001, shows Wilbee Corporation of Babylon, New York selling the corner lot at 35-25 Steinway Street, also addressed as 35-24 41st Street, to 3525 Steinway LLC, an entity registered at 60 Cutter Mill Road in Great Neck. The site sits on Block 669, Lot 13 in Astoria, a stretch of Queens that has absorbed a wave of ground-up multifamily filings as the neighborhood’s rezoned corridors fill in. A buyer that holds a $17.7M parcel quiet for nearly nine months, then files for 93 units across 17 floors, is signaling a scale project rather than a speculative hold.
The numbers
Job Q01456601-I1, filed Oct. 23, proposes a 17-story-plus-cellar mixed-use building with 93 dwelling units on the same block and lot named in the January deed. The filing is listed as pending CPE/ACPE plan examiner assignment, meaning no permit has issued and the unit and floor counts are the applicant’s proposal, not an approved final plan. That is 268 days after the $17.7M deed recorded Jan. 30. Lot size was not available in the records pulled for this piece, so a price-per-square-foot figure does not appear here rather than being estimated.
What’s next
The filing still has to clear DOB plan examination before a permit can issue, and nothing in the public record states a construction start date or financing source. We will track BBL 4006690013 for the next milestone. For the rest of what is moving across the borough, see our full New York market coverage.
On the record
Primary record
- Our dataACRIS deed 2026012900734001, dated Jan. 28, 2026 and recorded Jan. 30, 2026, conveys the corner lot at 35-25 Steinway Street / 35-24 41st Street, Astoria (Block 669, Lot 13, BBL 4006690013) from Wilbee Corporation to 3525 Steinway LLC for $17,700,000. DOB NOW job Q01456601-I1, a New Building filing for the same block and lot, was submitted Oct. 23, 2026, 268 days after the deed recorded, proposing 17 stories plus cellar and 93 dwelling units. We matched the deed to the filing by block and lot and counted the days ourselves.View the record on a836-acris.nyc.gov
- NYC DOB, BISWEB Property Profile, BBL 4-00669-0013New Building job Q01456601-I1, filed Oct. 23, 2026, 17 stories, 93 dwelling units
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