30 Rockefeller Plaza

The former RCA Building is 30 Rockefeller Plaza, at 1250 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, in Midtown. It was also known as the GE Building.

30 Rockefeller Plaza has about 2.1 million square feet of floor area in total, including 2.1 million square feet of office and 71,000 square feet of retail, according to NYC PLUTO 26v2. These are the city's estimates for the whole building, not space that is available.

The Landmarks Preservation Commission's building records date 30 Rockefeller Plaza to 1932-1933, designed by Associated Architects. City tax records list 1937 as the year built. The building is 70 floors tall.

Associated Architects, according to the Landmarks Preservation Commission's building records, which list the style as Art Deco and its original use as an office building.

Yes. The Landmarks Preservation Commission designated 30 Rockefeller Plaza an individual landmark on April 23, 1985 (LP-01446), as part of Rockefeller Center. Changes to a designated landmark, including many storefront, window and signage changes, need a permit from the Commission.

30 Rockefeller Plaza is at 1250 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown, Manhattan. City records list 1240-1256 Avenue of the Americas, 30-32 Rockefeller Plaza, 31-81 West 49th Street, 30-64 West 50th Street, 70 West 50th Street and 74 West 50th Street on the same tax lot (BBL 1012657501). A space listed on Leasemark at any of these addresses shows up on this page.

City records give two ZIP codes for this tax lot: 10112 in NYC PLUTO 26v2 and 10020 on the Department of Finance's assessment roll. Some large New York buildings have a ZIP code of their own beside the area's, so check with the building's management which one it uses before you rely on either.

The lot is in the C5-2.5 zoning district. PLUTO lists a built floor area ratio (FAR) of 19.69 and a maximum commercial FAR of 12 for this lot.

The closest subway station to 30 Rockefeller Plaza is 47-50 Sts-Rockefeller Ctr (the B, D, F and M trains), about 500 feet away in a straight line, roughly 2 minutes on foot. The MTA lists it as an accessible station. Also nearby: 49 St (the N, R and W trains), 5 min walk; 5 Av/53 St (the E and F trains), 5 min walk. Walking times are straight-line estimates; the street route is longer.

30 Rockefeller Plaza is a condominium of 107 tax lots. RCPI LANDMARK PROPERTIES, one of 3 owners of record on the roll, owns the units that make up 51% of its market value. That is from the NYC Department of Finance's 2026/27 assessment roll (BBL 1012657501). Deeds and mortgages for each unit 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 30 Rockefeller Plaza. 2 public companies report the address as their principal executive office: LAZARD, INC. (LAZ); and STRATCAP DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE REIT, INC.. One investment manager files 13F holdings reports from the address: LAZARD ASSET MANAGEMENT LLC. 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.

30 Rockefeller Plaza's 2024 Local Law 84 benchmarking filing got no ENERGY STAR score (a campus of several buildings cannot get a 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 87.9 kBtu per square foot, 76% above the national median of 49.9 for a similar property. Its greenhouse gas emissions were about 71,221 metric tons of CO2e (8.84 kg per square foot). The filing covers 6 tax lots together, so these figures are for the whole property.

In the 12 months to October 2026, the Department of Buildings issued first permits for 61 jobs at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. In the last two years, interior work was permitted on 70 floors (floors 1 to 70, the cellar, the concourse and the ground floor). The newest build-out, on floor 56, was first permitted in October 2026 (construction; filed cost estimate $19,000). These are the Department of Buildings' DOB NOW work permits for tax lot 1012657501. 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 $587.9 million for 30 Rockefeller Plaza (the sum of its 107 condominium tax lots). At the Class 4 rate of 10.848% (tax year 2025/26, the latest rate the Department of Finance lists), that is about $63.8 million a year, roughly $30.05 per square foot of floor area, before abatements such as ICAP. The city's property tax records for BBL 1012657501 show the actual bill.

For tax year 2026/27, the NYC Department of Finance puts the market value of 30 Rockefeller Plaza at $1.39 billion ($240.9 million of it land) and its assessed value at $624.2 million, the 45% of market value the city assesses for Class 4 property. The city's market value rose 1% from 2025/26 ($1.38 billion) to 2026/27.

Owners registered 36 storefronts at 30 Rockefeller Plaza for December 31, 2025, the newest annual filing the city has published, and 4 of them stood vacant that day. At least one storefront here has been reported vacant at the end of every year since 2019. 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 1250 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.