148 Fifth Avenue

148 Fifth Avenue has about 188,000 square feet of floor area in total, including 168,000 square feet of office and 19,000 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 148 Fifth Avenue to 1888-1890, designed by Edward Hale Kendall. The building is 11 floors tall.

Edward Hale Kendall, according to the Landmarks Preservation Commission's building records, which list the style as Romanesque Revival and its original use as store and lofts.

City records list 148-152 Fifth Avenue and 2-4 West 20th Street on the same tax lot (BBL 1008210041) as 148 Fifth Avenue. A space listed on Leasemark at any of these addresses shows up on this page.

148 Fifth Avenue is in ZIP code 10011, according to the city's tax lot records (NYC PLUTO 26v2) and the Department of Finance's assessment roll. The full mailing address is 148 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011, in Flatiron.

The lot is in the C6-4M zoning district. PLUTO lists a built floor area ratio (FAR) of 9.78 and a maximum commercial FAR of 10 for this lot. It is inside the Ladies' Mile Historic District, so exterior changes go through the Landmarks Preservation Commission.

The closest subway station to 148 Fifth Avenue is 23 St (the R and W trains), about 850 feet away in a straight line, roughly 3 minutes on foot. Also nearby: 23 St (the F and M trains), 5 min walk; 23 St-Baruch College (the 6 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 150 5TH AVENUE OFFICE LLC as the owner of record of 148 Fifth Avenue (BBL 1008210041). 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.

148 Fifth Avenue last sold in November 2007 for $155 million, according to the deed recorded with the city. 150 5TH AVE., L.P. sold it to 150 5TH AVENUE OFFICE LLC. The deed is ACRIS document 2007110200280001 (BBL 1008210041) 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.

148 Fifth Avenue reported an ENERGY STAR score of 81 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 81 earns a B. 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 55.7 kBtu per square foot, 38% below the national median of 90.3 for a similar property. Its greenhouse gas emissions were about 1,163 metric tons of CO2e (5.6 kg per square foot).

At its 2024 energy use, 148 Fifth Avenue comes to about 894 metric tons of CO2e a year under Local Law 97's coefficients, against a limit of 1,574 tons for 2024 to 2029 (57% of the limit), so it would owe no penalty. From 2030 the limit drops to 545 tons and the same energy use counts as about 520 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.

In the 12 months to October 2026, the Department of Buildings issued first permits for 9 jobs at 148 Fifth Avenue. In the last two years, interior work was permitted on 12 floors (floors 1 to 12 and the cellar). The newest build-out, on floor 3, was first permitted in July 2026 (mechanical; filed cost estimate $123,000). These are the Department of Buildings' DOB NOW work permits for tax lot 1008210041. 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 $59.6 million for 148 Fifth Avenue. At the Class 4 rate of 10.848% (tax year 2025/26, the latest rate the Department of Finance lists), that is about $6.47 million a year, roughly $34.48 per square foot of floor area, before abatements such as ICAP. The city's property tax records for BBL 1008210041 show the actual bill.

For tax year 2026/27, the NYC Department of Finance puts the market value of 148 Fifth Avenue at $134.9 million ($10 million of it land) and its assessed value at $60.7 million, the 45% of market value the city assesses for Class 4 property. The city's market value rose 8% from 2022/23 ($125.3 million) to 2026/27.

Owners registered 3 storefronts at 148 Fifth Avenue for December 31, 2025, 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 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 148 Fifth Avenue 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.