Long Distance Building

32 Avenue of the Americas, also known as the Long Distance Building, is at 16 Walker Street, New York, NY 10013, in Tribeca. It is also known as the AT&T Long Lines Building.

The Long Distance Building has about 1.1 million square feet of floor area in total, including 1.1 million square feet of office and 3,000 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 Long Distance Building to 1911-1914, designed by Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz, McKenzie, Voorhees & Gmelin. The building is 26 floors tall.

Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz, McKenzie, Voorhees & Gmelin, 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 Long Distance Building an individual landmark on October 1, 1991 (LP-01747). Changes to a designated landmark, including many storefront, window and signage changes, need a permit from the Commission.

The Long Distance Building is at 16 Walker Street in Tribeca, Manhattan. City records list 22-42 Avenue of the Americas, 306-320 Church Street, 4-30 Lispenard Street and 14-28 Walker Street on the same tax lot (BBL 1001920001). A space listed on Leasemark at any of these addresses shows up on this page.

16 Walker Street is in ZIP code 10013, according to the city's tax lot records (NYC PLUTO 26v2) and the Department of Finance's assessment roll. The Long Distance Building is at 16 Walker Street, New York, NY 10013, in Tribeca.

The lot is in the C6-2A zoning district. PLUTO lists a built floor area ratio (FAR) of 23.73 and a maximum commercial FAR of 6 for this lot.

The closest subway station to the Long Distance Building is Canal St (the A, C and E trains), about 350 feet away in a straight line, roughly 1 minute on foot. Also nearby: Franklin St (the 1 train), 3 min walk; Canal St (the 6, J, N, Q, R, W and Z trains), 3 min walk. Walking times are straight-line estimates; the street route is longer.

The NYC Department of Finance's 2026/27 assessment roll lists 32 SIXTH AVENUE CO LLC as the owner of record of the Long Distance Building (BBL 1001920001). 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.

The Long Distance Building's 2024 Local Law 84 benchmarking filing got no ENERGY STAR score (the filing does not cover 12 full months of meter data), 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 171.9 kBtu per square foot, 4.0 times the national median of 42.8 for a similar property. Its greenhouse gas emissions were about 21,859 metric tons of CO2e (19.36 kg per square foot).

At its 2024 energy use, the Long Distance Building comes to about 16,047 metric tons of CO2e a year under Local Law 97's coefficients, against a limit of 15,697 tons for 2024 to 2029: about 350 tons over, an estimated penalty of $94,000 a year. From 2030 the limit drops to 8,340 tons and the same energy use counts as about 8,255 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 14 jobs at the Long Distance Building. In the last two years, interior work was permitted on 10 floors (floors 1, 7, 9 to 11, 15, 17 and 23 to 25). The newest build-out, on floor 15, was first permitted in October 2026 (structural; filed cost estimate $1.5 million). These are the Department of Buildings' DOB NOW work permits for tax lot 1001920001. 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 $154.7 million for the Long Distance Building. At the Class 4 rate of 10.848% (tax year 2025/26, the latest rate the Department of Finance lists), that is about $16.8 million a year, roughly $15.36 per square foot of floor area, before abatements such as ICAP. The city's property tax records for BBL 1001920001 show the actual bill.

For tax year 2026/27, the NYC Department of Finance puts the market value of the Long Distance Building at $350 million ($20.6 million of it land) and its assessed value at $157.5 million, the 45% of market value the city assesses for Class 4 property. The city's market value rose 5% from 2022/23 ($333.3 million) to 2026/27.

Owners registered 4 storefronts at the Long Distance Building for December 31, 2025, the newest annual filing the city has published, and 2 of them stood vacant that day. At least one storefront here has been reported vacant at the end of every year since 2020. 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 16 Walker 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.