1211 Avenue of the Americas

The News Corp. Building is at 1211 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10036, in Midtown. It was formerly known as the Celanese Building.

1211 Avenue of the Americas has about 2 million square feet of floor area in total, including 1.9 million square feet of office, 21,000 square feet of retail and 51,000 square feet of industrial and storage space, according to NYC PLUTO 26v2. These are the city's estimates for the whole building, not space that is available.

City records list 1973 as the year built, with a major alteration recorded in 2020. The building is 45 floors tall.

City records list 1201-1217 Avenue of the Americas, 101-143 West 47th Street and 100-136 West 48th Street on the same tax lot (BBL 1010000029) as 1211 Avenue of the Americas. A space listed on Leasemark at any of these addresses shows up on this page.

1211 Avenue of the Americas is in ZIP code 10036, according to the city's tax lot records (NYC PLUTO 26v2) and the Department of Finance's assessment roll. The full mailing address is 1211 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10036, in Midtown.

The lot is in the C6-5.5 zoning district. PLUTO lists a built floor area ratio (FAR) of 23.38 and a maximum commercial FAR of 12 for this lot.

The closest subway station to 1211 Avenue of the Americas is 47-50 Sts-Rockefeller Ctr (the B, D, F and M trains), about 300 feet away in a straight line, roughly 1 minute on foot. The MTA lists it as an accessible station. Also nearby: 49 St (the N, R and W trains), 3 min walk; 50 St (the 1 train), 5 min walk. Walking times are straight-line estimates; the street route is longer.

The NYC Department of Finance's 2026/27 assessment roll lists 1211 6TH AVENUE SYNDICATION PARTNERS JV, L.P. as the owner of record of 1211 Avenue of the Americas (BBL 1010000029). Big buildings are usually held through a company set up for that one property, so the name on the roll can differ from the landlord's brand or the managing agent. Deeds and mortgages for the lot are public in ACRIS, the city's property records system.

Leasemark does not have the building's tenant roster, but SEC filings name companies with offices at 1211 Avenue of the Americas. 3 public companies report the address as their principal executive office: ANNALY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT INC (NLY), FOX CORP (FOXA) and NEWS CORP (NWSA). One investment manager files 13F holdings reports from the address: NORDEA INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT NORTH AMERICA INC. Private companies do not file with the SEC, so the full list of tenants is longer, and a company can also report a building it owns.

1211 Avenue of the Americas last sold in August 2006 for $1.52 billion, according to the deed recorded with the city. J T 1211, L.P. sold it to 1211 6TH AVENUE PROPERTY OWNER, L.L.C.. The deed is ACRIS document 2006083002118001 (BBL 1010000029) in the city's property records. A sale of the company that owns a building is not recorded as a deed, so it would not show there.

1211 Avenue of the Americas's 2024 Local Law 84 benchmarking filing got no ENERGY STAR score, and Local Law 33 letter grades come from that score, so the filing does not yield an A to D grade. Its site energy use came to 94.8 kBtu per square foot, 2.0 times the national median of 46.7 for a similar property. Its greenhouse gas emissions were about 20,081 metric tons of CO2e (10.01 kg per square foot).

At its 2024 energy use, 1211 Avenue of the Americas comes to about 14,636 metric tons of CO2e a year under Local Law 97's coefficients, against a limit of 15,699 tons for 2024 to 2029 (93% of the limit), so it would owe no penalty. From 2030 the limit drops to 5,815 tons and the same energy use counts as about 8,103 tons, about 2,287 tons over, or an estimated $613,000 a year unless the building cuts its emissions. This is an estimate from the owner's 2024 benchmarking filing using the coefficients and per-use limits in the law and the Department of Buildings rule, at $268 per ton over. It is not the building's Local Law 97 report, which can count credits and deductions this estimate cannot.

In the 12 months to October 2026, the Department of Buildings issued first permits for 36 jobs at 1211 Avenue of the Americas. In the last two years, interior work was permitted on 21 floors (floors 1 to 10, 12 to 14, 17, 18, 22, 25, 26, 30, 38 and 41, the cellar, the mezzanine and the sub-cellar). The newest build-out, on floor 18, was first permitted in October 2026 (mechanical; filed cost estimate $330,000). A sidewalk shed permit here is active until March 9, 2027. These are the Department of Buildings' DOB NOW work permits for tax lot 1010000029. A permit is approval to do the work; it does not say who the work is for or whether it is finished.

The Department of Finance's 2026/27 assessment roll lists a taxable value of $443 million for 1211 Avenue of the Americas. At the Class 4 rate of 10.848% (tax year 2025/26, the latest rate the Department of Finance lists), that is about $48.1 million a year, roughly $24.22 per square foot of floor area, before abatements such as ICAP. The city's property tax records for BBL 1010000029 show the actual bill.

For tax year 2026/27, the NYC Department of Finance puts the market value of 1211 Avenue of the Americas at $1.01 billion ($299 million of it land) and its assessed value at $455.6 million, the 45% of market value the city assesses for Class 4 property. The city's market value rose 7% from 2022/23 ($945.6 million) to 2026/27.

Owners registered 11 storefronts at 1211 Avenue of the Americas for December 31, 2025, the newest annual filing the city has published, and 2 of them stood vacant that day. These are the owners' filings with the Department of Finance under Local Law 157, so a storefront vacant on December 31, 2025 may have been leased since. Owners and brokers can list a storefront on Leasemark for free.

No space at 1211 Avenue of the Americas is listed on Leasemark right now. Nearby on Leasemark: office space for lease at 783 Madison 4th Floor in the Upper East Side (994 SF, $66.40/SF/yr). Owners and brokers can list space here for free, and tenants can post a requirement to be matched when space opens up.