Esso Building

The Esso Building has about 582,000 square feet of floor area in total, including 544,000 square feet of office and 38,000 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 the Esso Building to 1946-1947, designed by Robert Carson & Earl Lundin, Wallace Harrison (consulting). The building is 33 floors tall.

Robert Carson & Earl Lundin, Wallace Harrison (consulting), 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 the Esso Building 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.

The Esso Building is at 15 West 51st Street in Midtown, Manhattan. City records list 75 Rockefeller Plaza, 15-19 West 51st Street and 14-36 West 52nd Street on the same tax lot (BBL 1012670022). A space listed on Leasemark at any of these addresses shows up on this page.

15 West 51st Street is in ZIP code 10019, according to the city's tax lot records (NYC PLUTO 26v2) and the Department of Finance's assessment roll. The Esso Building is at 15 West 51st Street, New York, NY 10019, in Midtown.

The lot is in the C5-2.5 zoning district. PLUTO lists a built floor area ratio (FAR) of 15.51 and a maximum commercial FAR of 12 for this lot.

The closest subway station to the Esso Building is 5 Av/53 St (the E and F trains), about 700 feet away in a straight line, roughly 3 minutes on foot. Also nearby: 47-50 Sts-Rockefeller Ctr (the B, D, F and M trains), 4 min walk; 57 St (the M 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 75 PLAZA as the owner of record of the Esso Building (BBL 1012670022). 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 the Esso Building. One investment manager files 13F holdings reports from the address: TimesSquare Capital 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.

The Esso Building reported an ENERGY STAR score of 83 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 83 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 45 kBtu per square foot, 42% below the national median of 77 for a similar property. Its greenhouse gas emissions were about 2,991 metric tons of CO2e (4.85 kg per square foot).

At its 2024 energy use, the Esso Building comes to about 2,250 metric tons of CO2e a year under Local Law 97's coefficients, against a limit of 4,835 tons for 2024 to 2029 (47% of the limit), so it would owe no penalty. From 2030 the limit drops to 1,820 tons and the same energy use counts as about 1,220 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 11 jobs at the Esso Building. In the last two years, interior work was permitted on 12 floors (floors 1 to 3, 8 to 11, 18, 19, 24, 25 and 27, the cellar, the mezzanine and the sub-cellar). The newest build-out, on floor 8, was first permitted in August 2026 (construction, mechanical, sprinklers; filed cost estimate $195,000). These are the Department of Buildings' DOB NOW work permits for tax lot 1012670022. 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 $113.1 million for the Esso Building. At the Class 4 rate of 10.848% (tax year 2025/26, the latest rate the Department of Finance lists), that is about $12.3 million a year, roughly $21.07 per square foot of floor area, before abatements such as ICAP. The city's property tax records for BBL 1012670022 show the actual bill.

For tax year 2026/27, the NYC Department of Finance puts the market value of the Esso Building at $262.3 million ($76.2 million of it land) and its assessed value at $118 million, the 45% of market value the city assesses for Class 4 property. The city's market value rose 7% from 2022/23 ($245.8 million) to 2026/27.

Owners registered 4 storefronts at the Esso Building for December 31, 2025, the newest annual filing the city has published, and none stood vacant that day. A year earlier, 2 of 4 stood vacant. 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 51st Street 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.