Hampton Shops Building

The Hampton Shops Building has about 58,000 square feet of floor area in total, including 41,000 square feet of office and 18,000 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 Hampton Shops Building to 1915-1916, designed by Rouse & Goldstone and Joseph L. Steinam. The building is 11 floors tall.

Rouse & Goldstone and Joseph L. Steinam, according to the Landmarks Preservation Commission's building records, which list the style as neo-Gothic / Perpendicular Gothic and its original use as an office building.

Yes. The Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Hampton Shops Building an individual landmark on November 22, 2016 (LP-02580). Changes to a designated landmark, including many storefront, window and signage changes, need a permit from the Commission.

The Hampton Shops Building is at 18 East 50th Street in Midtown, Manhattan. City records list 18-20 East 50th Street on the same tax lot (BBL 1012850059). A space listed on Leasemark at any of these addresses shows up on this page.

18 East 50th Street is in ZIP code 10022, according to the city's tax lot records (NYC PLUTO 26v2) and the Department of Finance's assessment roll. The Hampton Shops Building is at 18 East 50th Street, New York, NY 10022, in Midtown.

The lot is in the C5-3 zoning district. PLUTO lists a built floor area ratio (FAR) of 10.34 and a maximum commercial FAR of 15 for this lot.

The closest subway station to the Hampton Shops Building is 5 Av/53 St (the E and F trains), about 900 feet away in a straight line, roughly 3 minutes on foot. Also nearby: 51 St (the 6, E and F trains, connected to Lexington Av/53 St), 5 min walk; 47-50 Sts-Rockefeller Ctr (the B, D, F and M trains), 6 min walk. Walking times are straight-line estimates; the street route is longer.

The NYC Department of Finance's 2026/27 assessment roll lists PAMELA EQUITIES CORP as the owner of record of the Hampton Shops Building (BBL 1012850059). Deeds and mortgages for the lot are public in ACRIS, the city's property records system.

The Hampton Shops Building reported an ENERGY STAR score of 80 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 80 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 52 kBtu per square foot, 38% below the national median of 83.8 for a similar property. Its greenhouse gas emissions were about 288 metric tons of CO2e (4.58 kg per square foot).

At its 2024 energy use, the Hampton Shops Building comes to about 205 metric tons of CO2e a year under Local Law 97's coefficients, against a limit of 476 tons for 2024 to 2029 (43% of the limit), so it would owe no penalty. From 2030 the limit drops to 169 tons and the same energy use counts as about 140 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 1 job at the Hampton Shops Building. In the last two years, interior work was permitted on 3 floors (floors 5, 7 and 8). The newest build-out, on floors 7 and 8, was first permitted in September 2026 (construction, plumbing; filed cost estimate $120,000). These are the Department of Buildings' DOB NOW work permits for tax lot 1012850059. 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 $8.55 million for the Hampton Shops Building. At the Class 4 rate of 10.848% (tax year 2025/26, the latest rate the Department of Finance lists), that is about $927,358 a year, roughly $15.90 per square foot of floor area, before abatements such as ICAP. The city's property tax records for BBL 1012850059 show the actual bill.

For tax year 2026/27, the NYC Department of Finance puts the market value of the Hampton Shops Building at $19 million ($5.97 million of it land) and its assessed value at $8.55 million, the 45% of market value the city assesses for Class 4 property. The city's market value fell 5% from 2022/23 ($20.1 million) to 2026/27.

Owners registered one storefront at the Hampton Shops Building for December 31, 2024, the newest annual filing the city has published, and it 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, 2024 may have been leased since. Owners and brokers can list a storefront on Leasemark for free.

No space at 18 East 50th 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.