Engineers' Club Building

The Engineers' Club Building has about 63,000 square feet of floor area in total, including 52,000 square feet of office and 11,000 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 Engineers' Club Building to 1905-1907, designed by Whitfield & King. City tax records list 1925 as the year built. The building is 17 floors tall.

Whitfield & King, according to the Landmarks Preservation Commission's building records, which list the style as Renaissance Revival and its original use as a club building.

Yes. The Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Engineers' Club Building an individual landmark on March 22, 2011 (LP-02429). Changes to a designated landmark, including many storefront, window and signage changes, need a permit from the Commission.

The Engineers' Club Building is at 24 West 40th Street in Midtown, Manhattan. City records list 24-26 West 40th Street on the same tax lot (BBL 1008417502). A space listed on Leasemark at any of these addresses shows up on this page.

24 West 40th Street is in ZIP code 10018, according to the city's tax lot records (NYC PLUTO 26v2) and the Department of Finance's assessment roll. The Engineers' Club Building is at 24 West 40th Street, New York, NY 10018, in Midtown.

The lot is in the C5-3 zoning district. PLUTO lists a built floor area ratio (FAR) of 12.13 and a maximum commercial FAR of 15 for this lot.

The closest subway station to the Engineers' Club Building is 5 Av (the 7, B, D, F and M trains, connected to 42 St-Bryant Pk), about 600 feet away in a straight line, roughly 2 minutes on foot. Also nearby: Grand Central-42 St (the 4, 5, 6, 7 and S trains), 4 min walk; 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), 5 min walk. Walking times are straight-line estimates; the street route is longer.

The Engineers' Club Building is a condominium of 16 tax lots with 6 owners of record, none holding half of its market value. That is from the NYC Department of Finance's 2026/27 assessment roll (BBL 1008417502). Deeds and mortgages for each unit are public in ACRIS, the city's property records system.

The Engineers' Club Building reported an ENERGY STAR score of 89 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 89 earns an A. 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 68.7 kBtu per square foot, less than half the national median of 138.6 for a similar property. Its greenhouse gas emissions were about 537 metric tons of CO2e (6.05 kg per square foot). The filing covers 2 tax lots together, so these figures are for the whole property.

The Department of Buildings issued no permits for new jobs at the Engineers' Club Building in the 12 months to September 2026; the last one was first permitted in May 2025. In the last two years, interior work was permitted on the cellar and the ground floor. The newest build-out, on the cellar and the ground floor, was first permitted in May 2025 (construction, structural; filed cost estimate $96,000). These are the Department of Buildings' DOB NOW work permits for tax lot 1008417502. 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 $10.2 million for the Engineers' Club Building (the sum of its 16 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 $1.11 million a year, roughly $17.62 per square foot of floor area, before abatements such as ICAP. The city's property tax records for BBL 1008417502 show the actual bill.

For tax year 2026/27, the NYC Department of Finance puts the market value of the Engineers' Club Building at $24.5 million ($939,000 of it land) and its assessed value at $11 million, the 45% of market value the city assesses for Class 4 property. The city's market value rose 10% from 2022/23 ($22.3 million) to 2026/27.

Owners registered 2 storefronts at the Engineers' Club Building for December 31, 2024, the newest annual filing the city has published, and none stood 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 24 West 40th 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.