37-44 61st Str, Woodside, NY 11377
Woodside, Queens
Three self-contained apartments in a restored house in Woodside, Queens — booked one at a time, or the whole house for a gathering. Fifteen minutes from Midtown, with a garden and a kitchen that will take a crowd.
How this house works
Three apartments, each with its own front door, its own key code, its own kitchen and its own bathroom. Or the same three, plus the garden and both kitchens, let together to one party. They are the same rooms, so the calendar treats them as one building — which is the thing most worth understanding before you look at dates.
An apartment is not the house. An apartment booking is a private apartment, not a private house: the other two apartments may be let on the same nights, and the garden, the stoop and the stair are shared. The whole-house let is the one that takes the building off sale.
Each is a whole apartment rather than a room, and each is honestly different: one is level with the garden, one has the bay window and the twelve-foot ceiling, and one is up two flights under the roof and is the cheapest and the quietest.
Garden level
The garden level of the house, and the only apartment you can walk into from the garden without meeting a stair. Two bedrooms, a kitchen that opens onto the sitting room, and a door onto the terrace that people leave open from May until October.
$185 a night from · plus a $95 cleaning fee, once
Parlour floor
The front rooms of the original house, with the bay window, the twelve-foot ceiling and the plaster cornice that the restoration kept. It is the largest of the three and the one people book when they want the house to look like the photographs.
$205 a night from · plus a $105 cleaning fee, once
Top floor
The top of the house, under the roof, with skylights on both slopes and a mezzanine over the sitting room. It is the smallest and the cheapest and it has the best light in the building from about four in the afternoon.
$165 a night from · plus a $85 cleaning fee, once
The whole house
All three apartments, the garden and both kitchens, let as one house to one party. The internal doors that separate the apartments are unlocked, the stair becomes a stair again, and the house works the way it was built to.
$520 a night from · plus a $260 cleaning fee, once
Less than the three apartments added together, because it is one clean, one changeover and one arrival instead of three. The arithmetic is on the rates page rather than in a sentence asking to be believed.
Events
A gathering, a small wedding, a day away from the office or a shoot. What makes the house work for any of them is not the parlour, which is handsome, but the second kitchen and the fact that eleven people can stay the night — so the day does not end with a convoy of cars.
10:00am - 10:00pm
A birthday, an anniversary, a christening lunch, or the reason everybody is in New York in the same week.
$1,250 for the day · by enquiry, not instant booking
12:00pm - 11:00pm
A ceremony in the garden or the parlour, a meal at the long table, and the wedding party asleep upstairs.
$2,400 for the day · by enquiry, not instant booking
9:00am - 6:00pm
A day away from the office for a team of up to twenty-two, fifteen minutes from Midtown.
$1,450 for the day · by enquiry, not instant booking
8:00am - 6:00pm
A period interior with a bay window, twelve-foot ceilings, a garden and a roofline, in one building.
$1,100 for the day · by enquiry, not instant booking
An event is an enquiry. An event is an enquiry, not a booking. Nothing on this site confirms a date for an event — the enquiry reaches a person, the date is held while it is discussed, and only a confirmation in the office takes the house off sale.
What a stay costs
A nightly rate and one cleaning fee. No resort fee, no service charge, and nothing invented at the end. Here is a real quote, every night itemised, exactly as the booking page prints it before it asks for a name.
The Garden Apartment, 16 April 2027 to 19 April 2027
A spring weekend: Friday and Saturday carry the uplift, Sunday does not.
| Night | Season | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| 16 April 2027 | Spring weekend | $213 |
| 17 April 2027 | Spring weekend | $213 |
| 18 April 2027 | Spring | $185 |
Total for the stay$706
$177 is taken now and $529 on arrival. A refundable hold of $300 is authorised on the day and released after departure — it is not a payment and it is not in the total above. The minimum stay on this arrival date is two nights.
The price on the screen is the price. Every rate on this site is per night for the whole apartment, and the cleaning fee is printed beside it. The cleaning fee is charged once for a stay of any length. There is no resort fee, no service charge and no tax added at the end.
The garden and the kitchens
About eleven hundred square feet behind the house, walled on three sides, with a table under the pergola. And a kitchen on the parlour floor built for cooking at scale — five rings, a double oven, and worktop enough for four people at once.
It is a city garden behind a house in Queens, not a lawn in the country. The elevated line is four minutes' walk away and you can hear it. Between December and the middle of April the garden is closed, the furniture is in store and the terrace is swept but not heated.
Where it is
Woodside is a residential neighbourhood in western Queens between Sunnyside and Jackson Heights. It is where people who work in Manhattan live rather than where they visit, which is most of what is good and all of what is quiet about it.
The elevated line. The elevated line runs above Roosevelt Avenue, four minutes' walk away, and it runs all night. It is audible from the front of the house and not from the loft.
Arriving
There is no front desk and nobody sleeps in the building. If something goes wrong at two in the morning the telephone is answered by a person who lives twenty minutes away, and that is what a small guest house can promise rather than a night porter it does not employ.
Before you book
Every one of these has its own page, because the worst version of each is the one a guest finds out about on the evening they arrive.
An apartment let is a private apartment, not a private house. The garden, the stoop and the stair are shared, and the other two apartments may well be let on the same nights. If having the building to yourself is the point, that is the whole-house let — and it costs what it costs because it takes three apartments off sale.
Either. The three apartments are sold separately at a nightly rate, and the whole house is sold as one let to one party. The calendar shows both and it will not sell you a night that is already gone in the other form.
No. The garden is shared between the three apartments and there may well be somebody else in it. If having the garden and the building to yourself is the point, that is the whole-house let.
Less than the three added together, and the rates page shows the arithmetic on the same screen. The house is one clean, one changeover and one arrival instead of three, and the price reflects that.
Yes, once per stay, and it is printed beside every nightly rate on this site rather than added at the end. It is eighty-five to a hundred and five dollars for an apartment and two hundred and sixty for the whole house.
No. Nightly rate, cleaning fee, and a refundable hold that is an authorisation rather than a payment. No resort fee, no service charge and no surcharge invented at checkout.
A keypad. The code arrives by e-mail a week before, works from three in the afternoon on the day of arrival, and stops working at eleven on the morning you leave. There is no key and nobody meets you.
Reading
The answer is almost never the number of beds. It is whether the group wants to be in the same building at breakfast.
Two to three hours for an apartment and four for the house, by people who are paid for it. Here is the whole list, because a fee nobody explains looks like a fee somebody invented.
Not to extract money from you. A two-night let in the middle of a week leaves two nights nobody can sell on either side of it.
The calendar is live. It shows what is free, it will not sell the same night twice, and it prints the whole total — cleaning fee included — before it asks for a name.
