Court Square Building

The Court Square Building has about 354,000 square feet of floor area in total, including 342,000 square feet of office and 12,000 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 Court Square Building to 1925, designed by Buchman & Kahn. The building is 21 floors tall.

Buchman & Kahn, according to the Landmarks Preservation Commission's building records and its original use as an office building.

The Court Square Building is at 2 Lafayette Street in Tribeca, Manhattan. City records list 42-50 Duane Street, 1-5 Elk Street, 2-8 Lafayette Street and 2-10 Reade Street on the same tax lot (BBL 1001550001). A space listed on Leasemark at any of these addresses shows up on this page.

2 Lafayette Street is in ZIP code 10007, according to the city's tax lot records (NYC PLUTO 26v2) and the Department of Finance's assessment roll. The Court Square Building is at 2 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10007, in Tribeca.

The lot is in the C6-4 zoning district. PLUTO lists a built floor area ratio (FAR) of 21.21 and a maximum commercial FAR of 10 for this lot. It is inside the African Burial Ground & The Commons Historic District, so exterior changes go through the Landmarks Preservation Commission.

The closest subway station to the Court Square Building is Chambers St (the J, Z, 4, 5 and 6 trains, connected to Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall), about 300 feet away in a straight line, roughly 1 minute on foot. The MTA lists it as an accessible station. Also nearby: City Hall (the R and W trains), 3 min walk; Chambers St (the A, C, 2, 3, E, R and W trains, connected to Cortlandt St and World Trade Center and Park Place), 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 DCAS (the city's Department of Citywide Administrative Services) as the owner of record of the Court Square Building (BBL 1001550001). Deeds and mortgages for the lot are public in ACRIS, the city's property records system.

The Court Square Building reported an ENERGY STAR score of 79 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 79 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 64.7 kBtu per square foot, 36% below the national median of 101.4 for a similar property. Its greenhouse gas emissions were about 2,164 metric tons of CO2e (5.96 kg per square foot).

In the 12 months to October 2026, the Department of Buildings issued first permits for 1 job at the Court Square Building. In the last two years, interior work was permitted on the cellar. The newest build-out, on the cellar, was first permitted in December 2025 (boiler; filed cost estimate $240,000). A sidewalk shed permit here is active until January 6, 2027. These are the Department of Buildings' DOB NOW work permits for tax lot 1001550001. 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 exemptions covering the whole taxable value of the Court Square Building, so there is no property tax on the roll to estimate. That is common for government, nonprofit and payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) properties. The city's property tax records for BBL 1001550001 show what is actually billed.

For tax year 2026/27, the NYC Department of Finance puts the market value of the Court Square Building at $92.5 million ($7.2 million of it land) and its assessed value at $41.6 million, the 45% of market value the city assesses for Class 4 property. The city's market value rose 4% from 2022/23 ($88.7 million) to 2026/27.

No space at 2 Lafayette 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.