15 West 44th Street

15 West 44th Street has about 53,000 square feet of floor area in total, including 48,000 square feet of office and 5,000 square feet of retail, according to NYC PLUTO 26v2. These are the city's estimates for the whole building, not space that is available.

City records list 1914 as the year built, with a major alteration recorded in 1985. The building is 12 floors tall.

City records list 7 West 44th Street, 11 West 44th Street and 15-17 West 44th Street on the same tax lot (BBL 1012600028) as 15 West 44th Street. A space listed on Leasemark at any of these addresses shows up on this page.

15 West 44th Street 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 15 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036, in Midtown.

The lot is in the C6-4.5 zoning district. PLUTO lists a built floor area ratio (FAR) of 7.02 and a maximum commercial FAR of 12 for this lot.

The closest subway station to 15 West 44th Street is 5 Av (the 7, B, D, F and M trains, connected to 42 St-Bryant Pk), about 650 feet away in a straight line, roughly 3 minutes on foot. Also nearby: Grand Central-42 St (the 4, 5, 6, 7 and S trains), 4 min walk; 47-50 Sts-Rockefeller Ctr (the B, D, F and M trains), 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 SINO-AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER LLC as the owner of record of 15 West 44th Street (BBL 1012600028). 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.

15 West 44th Street last sold in May 2017 for $68 million, according to the deed recorded with the city. 7 WEST 44TH ST. REALTY LLC sold it to SINO-AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER LLC. That comes to about $1,287 per square foot of floor area. The deed is ACRIS document 2017052200548001 (BBL 1012600028) 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.

15 West 44th Street reported an ENERGY STAR score of 50 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 50 earns a D. 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 80.4 kBtu per square foot, about the same as the national median of 81.2 for a similar property. Its greenhouse gas emissions were about 437 metric tons of CO2e (7.29 kg per square foot).

At its 2024 energy use, 15 West 44th Street comes to about 348 metric tons of CO2e a year under Local Law 97's coefficients, against a limit of 474 tons for 2024 to 2029 (74% of the limit), so it would owe no penalty. From 2030 the limit drops to 168 tons and the same energy use counts as about 225 tons, about 58 tons over, or an estimated $15,000 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.

The Department of Buildings issued no permits for new jobs at 15 West 44th Street in the 12 months to October 2026; the last one was first permitted in October 2024. A sidewalk shed permit here is active until December 20, 2026. These are the Department of Buildings' DOB NOW work permits for tax lot 1012600028. 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 $6.78 million for 15 West 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 $735,755 a year, roughly $13.92 per square foot of floor area, before abatements such as ICAP. The city's property tax records for BBL 1012600028 show the actual bill.

For tax year 2026/27, the NYC Department of Finance puts the market value of 15 West 44th Street at $15.1 million ($6.87 million of it land) and its assessed value at $6.78 million, the 45% of market value the city assesses for Class 4 property. The city's market value rose 1% from 2022/23 ($14.9 million) to 2026/27.

Owners registered one storefront at 15 West 44th Street for December 31, 2024, the newest annual filing the city has published, and it was not vacant that day. These are the owners' filings with the Department of Finance under Local Law 157, so a storefront may have come free since. Owners and brokers can list a storefront on Leasemark for free.

No space at 15 West 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.