Mohawk Building

The Mohawk Building has about 111,000 square feet of floor area in total, including 91,000 square feet of office and 20,000 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 Mohawk Building to 1891-1892, designed by Robert Henderson Robertson (architect), McCabe Bros. (builder). City tax records list 1900 as the year built. The building is 9 floors tall.

Robert Henderson Robertson (architect), McCabe Bros. (builder), according to the Landmarks Preservation Commission's building records, which list the style as neo-Renaissance and its original use as store, lofts and offices.

The Mohawk Building is at 160 Fifth Avenue in Flatiron, Manhattan. City records list 2 West 21st Street on the same tax lot (BBL 1008227507). A space listed on Leasemark at any of these addresses shows up on this page.

160 Fifth Avenue is in ZIP code 10010, according to the city's tax lot records (NYC PLUTO 26v2) and the Department of Finance's assessment roll. The Mohawk Building is at 160 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010, in Flatiron.

The lot is in the C6-4M zoning district. PLUTO lists a built floor area ratio (FAR) of 8.48 and a maximum commercial FAR of 10 for this lot.

The closest subway station to the Mohawk Building is 23 St (the R and W trains), about 600 feet away in a straight line, roughly 2 minutes on foot. Also nearby: 23 St (the F and M trains), 4 min walk; 23 St-Baruch College (the 6 train), 5 min walk. Walking times are straight-line estimates; the street route is longer.

The Mohawk Building is a condominium of 9 tax lots. THE SIMONS FOUNDATION, INC., one of 2 owners of record on the roll, owns the units that make up 63% of its market value. That is from the NYC Department of Finance's 2026/27 assessment roll (BBL 1008227507). Deeds and mortgages for each unit are public in ACRIS, the city's property records system.

In the 12 months to September 2026, the Department of Buildings issued first permits for 2 jobs at the Mohawk Building. In the last two years, interior work was permitted on 5 floors (floors 1, 2 and 7 to 9 and the cellar). The newest build-out, on floors 1 and 2 and the cellar, was first permitted in May 2026 (construction, mechanical, plumbing, sprinklers, structural; filed cost estimate $300,000). These are the Department of Buildings' DOB NOW work permits for tax lot 1008227507. 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 $14 million for the Mohawk Building (the sum of its 9 condominium tax lots). At the Class 4 rate of 10.848% (tax year 2025/26, the latest rate the Department of Finance lists), that is about $1.52 million a year, roughly $13.68 per square foot of floor area, before abatements such as ICAP. The city's property tax records for BBL 1008227507 show the actual bill.

For tax year 2026/27, the NYC Department of Finance puts the market value of the Mohawk Building at $85.6 million ($6 million of it land) and its assessed value at $38.5 million, the 45% of market value the city assesses for Class 4 property. The city's market value fell 7% from 2022/23 ($91.9 million) to 2026/27.

Owners registered one storefront at the Mohawk Building 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 160 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.