234 West 42nd Street

234 West 42nd Street has about 275,000 square feet of floor area in total, including 275,000 square feet of retail, according to NYC PLUTO 26v2. These are the city's estimates for the whole building, not space that is available.

City records list 1999 as the year built. The building is 15 floors tall.

City records list 231-239 West 41st Street and 226 West 42nd Street on the same tax lot (BBL 1010130012) as 234 West 42nd Street. A space listed on Leasemark at any of these addresses shows up on this page.

234 West 42nd Street is in ZIP code 10036, according to the city's tax lot records (NYC PLUTO 26v2) and the Department of Finance's assessment roll. The full mailing address is 234 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036, in Times Square.

The lot is in the C6-7 zoning district. PLUTO lists a built floor area ratio (FAR) of 5.09 and a maximum commercial FAR of 15 for this lot.

The closest subway station to 234 West 42nd Street is Times Sq-42 St (the 1, 2, 3, 7, N, Q, R, W, S, A, C and E trains, connected to 42 St-Port Authority Bus Terminal), about 450 feet away in a straight line, roughly 2 minutes on foot. The MTA lists it as an accessible station. Also nearby: 42 St-Bryant Pk (the B, D, F, M and 7 trains, connected to 5 Av), 5 min walk; 49 St (the N, R and W trains), 7 min walk. Walking times are straight-line estimates; the street route is longer.

The NYC Department of Finance's 2026/27 assessment roll lists NYC EDC as the owner of record of 234 West 42nd Street (BBL 1010130012). Deeds and mortgages for the lot are public in ACRIS, the city's property records system.

234 West 42nd Street's 2024 Local Law 84 benchmarking filing got no ENERGY STAR score (no single use that ENERGY STAR scores covers more than half of the floor area), 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 94.4 kBtu per square foot, 2.4 times the national median of 40 for a similar property. Its greenhouse gas emissions were about 1,526 metric tons of CO2e (10.86 kg per square foot).

In the 12 months to October 2026, the Department of Buildings issued first permits for 9 jobs at 234 West 42nd Street. In the last two years, interior work was permitted on 6 floors (floors 1 to 4, 8 and 9 and the cellar). The newest build-out, on floor 8, was first permitted in October 2026 (construction; filed cost estimate $5,000). These are the Department of Buildings' DOB NOW work permits for tax lot 1010130012. 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 234 West 42nd Street, 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 1010130012 show what is actually billed.

For tax year 2026/27, the NYC Department of Finance puts the market value of 234 West 42nd Street at $141 million ($24.1 million of it land) and its assessed value at $63.5 million, the 45% of market value the city assesses for Class 4 property. The city's market value rose 32% from 2022/23 ($106.5 million) to 2026/27.

Owners registered 13 storefronts at 234 West 42nd Street for December 31, 2025, the newest annual filing the city has published, and 6 of them 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, 2025 may have been leased since. Owners and brokers can list a storefront on Leasemark for free.

No space at 234 West 42nd 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.