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Groton Street in Forest Hills Named Queens' Most Expensive Block: Report

 This house, at 94 Groton Street in Forest Hills Gardens, was originally listed for $2,288,000. It sold about 2 years ago for $1,850,000.
This house, at 94 Groton Street in Forest Hills Gardens, was originally listed for $2,288,000. It sold about 2 years ago for $1,850,000.
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QUEENS — Groton Street in the affluent Forest Hills Gardens is the most expensive block in Queens, according to a report by real estate website StreetEasy.

The site compiled a list of the most expensive streets based on its own listings and taking into account only those blocks which saw at least 10 sales between January 2005 and May 2015.

According to StreetEasy, Groton Street between 70th and 72nd avenues, where the median sales price is $1.78 million, is the most expensive stretch in the borough. Eleven homes have been sold on that block in the past 10 years at prices ranging from $477,000 to $1,850,000.

The Gardens, a private community which StreetEasy calls a "tucked away" enclave, have historically featured some of the most expensive properties in Queens.

In recent years, several homes in Forest Hills Gardens sold for well over $2 million, including a single-family Tudor-style home at 72 Tennis Pl. which sold in November 2013 for a record $4.3 million. 

Powell’s Cove Boulevard, located in Whitestone on the East River waterfront, was named the second-most expensive block in Queens. Twenty one homes have been sold there since January 2005 and the median sales price is $1.63 million, StreetEasy said. 

The third-most expensive block in Queens, according to StreetEasy, is on Juno Street between 71st and 72nd avenues, also in Forest Hills and just outside of the Gardens.

Eleven homes have been sold in the past 10 years. The cheapest one cost $950,000, while the most expensive one, according to StreetEasy, was $1.5 million.

The median sales price on that block is $1.38 million.

The most expensive block in the entire city is 5th Avenue, between East 64th and East 65th streets where the median sales price is $36.18 million.