Restaurant space for lease in New York City

No restaurant space for lease in New York City is listed on Leasemark right now. Related spaces on Leasemark: retail space for lease at 690 Franklin Ave in Crown Heights (1,800 SF, $63.33/SF/yr); retail space for lease at 27 East 61st Street in the Upper East Side (9,470 SF, $159/SF/yr); retail space for lease at 201 Avenue A in the East Village (400 SF, $210/SF/yr). Post what you need and Leasemark matches you the day a space that fits is listed; your contact details stay private until you accept an intro. Owners and brokers can list a space here for free.

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Leasemark has no asking rents posted here yet, so here are the city's own numbers. Retail buildings in New York City collected a median $36.07 per square foot in 2024, and the middle half between $23.87 and $55.67, according to the income and expense statements owners file with the NYC Department of Finance (FY 2027 distributions, 9,629 filings). That is what buildings actually collected, with vacant space, concessions and leases signed years ago in the mix, so it is a baseline rather than a quote: a specific space's price depends on the building's class, floor, condition and the length of the lease.

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The NYC Health Department had 27,452 restaurants and other food service places with an inspection on file in New York City as of October 2026, and 3,917 more had applied for a permit and were waiting for their first inspection. The most common kinds are American (4,804), Chinese (2,257) and coffee and tea (2,208). The streets with the most are Broadway (711), Second Avenue (384) and Roosevelt Avenue (356).

3,759 food service places in New York City had their first pre-permit health inspection in the 12 months to October 23, 2026, 14% of the 27,452 open there. Counts are food service permits in an active status: restaurants, cafes, bakeries, bars that serve food and similar places. A new permit is either a new restaurant or a new operator taking over an existing one. Places that opened and closed again within the year are not counted.

The New York State Liquor Authority listed 8,694 active full liquor licenses and 3,660 beer and wine licenses for drinking on site in New York City as of October 23, 2026. 1,048 more applications for on-site licenses were waiting for a decision, 692 of them for full liquor.

New York's 500-foot rule (Alcoholic Beverage Control Law, section 64) bars a new full liquor license for on-site drinking within 500 feet of three or more places that already hold one, unless the State Liquor Authority finds at a hearing that it is in the public interest. In New York City, 6,288 of the 8,491 places with a full liquor license (74%) have three or more others within 500 feet, so most spaces near the existing bars and restaurants would need that hearing. A beer and wine license is not subject to the rule and does not count toward it. Distances here are between map points, so check the exact address before you sign a lease.

Owners registered 64,175 ground- and second-floor storefronts with the NYC Department of Finance for the end of 2025, and 5,902 of them (9.2%) stood vacant on December 31, 2025. That is up from 8.7% a year earlier and below the 11.3% of December 2020. Manhattan had the highest rate of the five boroughs (11.5%), Queens the lowest (7.3%). A vacant storefront is not always on the market: some are being renovated, held empty or already leased to a tenant who has not moved in.

In the city's storefront registry for the end of 2025: Broadway in Manhattan (1,734 storefronts, 208 vacant), Third Avenue in Manhattan (808 storefronts, 118 vacant) and Northern Boulevard in Queens (715 storefronts, 56 vacant). Counts are storefronts whose owners typed that street in the registration, so a few with misspelled addresses are missing from each.

Owners of 389 of the 1,371 large buildings Leasemark tracks in New York City with registered storefronts reported at least one vacant on December 31, 2025, 231 of them at 3 or more year ends in a row. The most vacant: Moynihan Train Hall, 441 Eighth Avenue (36 of 75 storefronts), 261 Eleventh Avenue (25 of 28 storefronts) and 100 West 33rd Street (12 of 13 storefronts). Each building's page shows its filings by year. A vacant storefront is not always on the market: some are being renovated, held empty or already leased to a tenant who has not moved in.

New York City's PLUTO tax lot data (26v2) records about 203.7 million square feet of retail floor area across 37,254 properties in the 80 New York City neighborhoods Leasemark covers, 48% of it in Manhattan. That is existing building stock in those neighborhoods, not a total for the whole city and not space currently for lease.

By floor area in the city's tax lot data: Midtown (about 16.3 million square feet), the Upper East Side (about 7.6 million square feet) and Downtown Brooklyn (about 7.3 million square feet). The largest single retail building on record is 441 Seventh Avenue in the Garment District, at about 2.2 million square feet.

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