144 East 44th Street

144 East 44th Street has about 51,000 square feet of floor area in total, including 46,000 square feet of office, 6,000 square feet of retail and 0 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 1960 as the year built, with a major alteration recorded in 1990. The building is 8 floors tall.

City records list 140-146 East 44th Street on the same tax lot (BBL 1012980045) as 144 East 44th Street. A space listed on Leasemark at any of these addresses shows up on this page.

144 East 44th Street is in ZIP code 10017, according to the city's tax lot records (NYC PLUTO 26v2) and the Department of Finance's assessment roll. The full mailing address is 144 East 44th Street, New York, NY 10017, in Grand Central.

The lot is in the C5-2.5 zoning district. PLUTO lists a built floor area ratio (FAR) of 7.32 and a maximum commercial FAR of 12 for this lot.

The closest subway station to 144 East 44th Street is Grand Central-42 St (the 4, 5, 6, 7 and S trains), about 500 feet away in a straight line, roughly 2 minutes on foot. The MTA lists it as an accessible station. Also nearby: 51 St (the 6, E and F trains, connected to Lexington Av/53 St), 7 min walk; 5 Av (the 7, B, D, F and M trains, connected to 42 St-Bryant Pk), 8 min walk. Walking times are straight-line estimates; the street route is longer.

The NYC Department of Finance's 2026/27 assessment roll lists DAVIDIM A G LTD as the owner of record of 144 East 44th Street (BBL 1012980045). Deeds and mortgages for the lot are public in ACRIS, the city's property records system.

144 East 44th Street reported an ENERGY STAR score of 96 for calendar year 2024 in its Local Law 84 benchmarking filing. Under Local Law 33, as amended by Local Law 95 of 2019, a score of 85 or higher earns an A, 70 to 84 a B, 55 to 69 a C and under 55 a D, so 96 earns an A. The Department of Buildings assigns the grade a building posts, so the posted label can differ if a filing was corrected. Its site energy use came to 20.1 kBtu per square foot, less than half the national median of 55.5 for a similar property. Its greenhouse gas emissions were about 130 metric tons of CO2e (2.31 kg per square foot).

At its 2024 energy use, 144 East 44th Street comes to about 96 metric tons of CO2e a year under Local Law 97's coefficients, against a limit of 427 tons for 2024 to 2029 (22% of the limit), so it would owe no penalty. From 2030 the limit drops to 152 tons and the same energy use counts as about 48 tons, still under the limit. 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.

The Department of Buildings issued no permits for new jobs at 144 East 44th Street in the 12 months to October 2026; the last one was first permitted in April 2023. These are the Department of Buildings' DOB NOW work permits for tax lot 1012980045. 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 $6.61 million for 144 East 44th Street. At the Class 4 rate of 10.848% (tax year 2025/26, the latest rate the Department of Finance lists), that is about $717,439 a year, roughly $13.95 per square foot of floor area, before abatements such as ICAP. The city's property tax records for BBL 1012980045 show the actual bill.

For tax year 2026/27, the NYC Department of Finance puts the market value of 144 East 44th Street at $15.2 million ($2.74 million of it land) and its assessed value at $6.83 million, the 45% of market value the city assesses for Class 4 property. The city's market value rose 10% from 2022/23 ($13.8 million) to 2026/27.

Owners registered 2 storefronts at 144 East 44th Street for December 31, 2024, the newest annual filing the city has published, and 1 of them stood vacant that day. At least one storefront here has been reported vacant at the end of every year since 2021. These are the owners' filings with the Department of Finance under Local Law 157, so a storefront vacant on December 31, 2024 may have been leased since. Owners and brokers can list a storefront on Leasemark for free.

No space at 144 East 44th Street is listed on Leasemark right now. Owners and brokers can list space here for free, and tenants can post a requirement to be matched when space opens up.