Law firm relocation near Grand Central
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- Where
- Grand Central, Midtown
- Size
- 7,000 to 10,000 SF
- Budget
- to $110/SF
- Move in
- May 2027
Office building with commercial space · Midtown, Manhattan
New York, NY 10019
24 West 57th Street is a 10-floor office building with commercial space in Midtown, Manhattan, built in 1928, with about 81,000 square feet of office space according to city records.
Also at 25-27 West 56th Street and 24-26 West 57th Street.
The 259th largest of the 315 office buildings we track in Midtown. Compare it with 6 neighbors
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Compared with its neighbors
Next to the 6 nearest large office buildings, all within a 2 minute walk, 24 West 57th Street ranks 5th of 7 by office floor area. It went up in 1928; the median neighbor dates from 1962. Its estimated property tax, about $19.87 a square foot of floor area before abatements, is below the neighbors' median of $27.18.
| Building | Office space | Floors | Built | Tax / SF | Last sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 West 57th Street | 81K SF | 10 | 1928 | $19.87 | Jan 2025, $67.2M |
| 38 West 57th Street | 641K SF | 36 | 1972 | $24.01 | n/a |
| 48 West 57th Street | 64K SF | 16 | 1927 | $11.13 | Jan 2006, $51.7M |
| Solow Building, 9 West 57th Street | 1.6M SF | 49 | 1971 | $30.34 | n/a |
| 720 Fifth Avenue | 101K SF | 15 | 1954 | $50.55 | Dec 2023, $397M |
| 712 Fifth Avenue | 462K SF | 50 | 1988 | $20.81 | n/a |
| 4 West 58th Street | 55K SF | 14 | 1948 | $42.68 | n/a |
Sources: NYC Department of City Planning, PLUTO 26v2 for size, floors and year built; NYC Department of Finance 2026/27 roll for tax (taxable value times the class rate, before abatements, over the whole floor area); ACRIS for the last deed that moved the whole lot for a real price (a price for several lots is their combined price; condominiums sell by the unit and show n/a). Large means at least 50,000 SF of the building's main use. Walking times are straight-line estimates.
NYC tax lot records
Source: NYC Department of City Planning, PLUTO 26v2, pulled 2026-09-30; addresses from the Property Address Directory (PAD) 26b; subway stations from the MTA Subway Stations dataset, pulled 2026-10-02. Floor areas are the city's estimates for the whole building, not available space. Walking times are straight-line estimates. How we build these pages. Something wrong on this page? Tell us.
NYC Department of Finance records
The Department of Finance lists 2457 ACQUISITION LLC as the owner of record. For tax year 2026/27 the city values 24 West 57th Street at $39.2 million and assesses it at $17.6 million. After phase-ins and exemptions its taxable value is $16.3 million; at the Class 4 rate of 10.848% (tax year 2025/26, the latest rate the Department of Finance lists) that comes to about $1.76 million a year before abatements, roughly $19.87 per square foot of floor area. Commercial leases here often pass a tenant's share of tax increases over a base year through as additional rent.
Source: NYC Department of Finance, Property Valuation and Assessment Data (2026/27 roll; owner names as the roll records them, which cuts some long names short), pulled 2026-10-02; tax rate from the Department of Finance tax rates page, checked 2026-09-28. The estimate is the taxable value times the class rate. It leaves out abatements, payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreements and charges, so the actual bill can differ.
NYC property records (ACRIS)
24 West 57th Street last sold in January 2025 for $67.2 million, according to the deed recorded with the city. 24 WEST 57 APF LLC sold it to 2457 ACQUISITION LLC. That comes to about $758 per square foot of floor area.
Source: NYC Department of Finance, ACRIS, Real Property Master, Legals and Parties, pulled 2026-10-02; prices as the deeds state them, names as recorded (companies and public bodies only). Shown are deeds that move the whole lot for a real price. Transfers between related companies for a nominal sum, sales of partial interests, land sales before the building went up and sales of the company that owns a building are left out.
NYC energy benchmarking (Local Law 84)
24 West 57th Street reported an ENERGY STAR score of 74 out of 100 for 2024 in its Local Law 84 benchmarking filing. Under Local Law 33 that score earns a B (70 to 84). Its site energy use came to 81.7 kBtu per square foot, 30% below the national median of 116.4 for a similar property. Its greenhouse gas emissions were about 740 metric tons of CO2e (7.09 kg per square foot).
Source: NYC Department of Buildings and Mayor's Office of Climate and Environmental Justice, NYC Building Energy and Water Data Disclosure for Local Law 84 (2024 filing), pulled 2026-10-02; grade cutoffs from the Department of Buildings energy grades page. Figures are as the owner filed them in ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager. The grade is the one the filed score earns under the law's cutoffs; the Department of Buildings assigns the grade a building posts, which can differ.
NYC Department of Buildings permits
The Department of Buildings issued no permits for new jobs at 24 West 57th Street in the 12 months to September 2026; the last one was first permitted in October 2021.
Build-outs across MidtownWhere NYC offices are being built out
Source: NYC Department of Buildings, DOB NOW: Build Approved Permits, pulled 2026-10-02 (permits issued through 2026-09-30). A job counts once, when its first permit is issued; renewals are not new work. A build-out groups jobs on the same floors first permitted within 120 days of each other. Costs are the estimates filed with the jobs. Jobs filed before DOB NOW (in the older BIS system) are not counted. A permit is approval to do the work; it does not say who the work is for or whether it is finished.
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24 West 57th Street has about 89,000 square feet of floor area in total, including 81,000 square feet of office, 8,000 square feet of retail and 0 square feet of industrial and storage space, according to NYC PLUTO 26v2. These are the city's estimates for the whole building, not space that is available.
City records list 1928 as the year built, with a major alteration recorded in 2009. The building is 10 floors tall.
City records list 25-27 West 56th Street and 24-26 West 57th Street on the same tax lot (BBL 1012720020) as 24 West 57th Street. A space listed on Leasemark at any of these addresses shows up on this page.
24 West 57th Street is in ZIP code 10019, according to the city's tax lot records (NYC PLUTO 26v2) and the Department of Finance's assessment roll. The full mailing address is 24 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019, in Midtown.
The lot is in the C5-3 zoning district. PLUTO lists a built floor area ratio (FAR) of 8.84 and a maximum commercial FAR of 15 for this lot.
The closest subway station to 24 West 57th Street is 57 St (the M train), about 550 feet away in a straight line, roughly 2 minutes on foot. The MTA lists it as an accessible station. Also nearby: 5 Av/59 St (the N, R and W trains), 3 min walk; 5 Av/53 St (the E and F trains), 4 min walk. Walking times are straight-line estimates; the street route is longer.
The NYC Department of Finance's 2026/27 assessment roll lists 2457 ACQUISITION LLC as the owner of record of 24 West 57th Street (BBL 1012720020). Big buildings are usually held through a company set up for that one property, so the name on the roll can differ from the landlord's brand or the managing agent. Deeds and mortgages for the lot are public in ACRIS, the city's property records system.
24 West 57th Street last sold in January 2025 for $67.2 million, according to the deed recorded with the city. 24 WEST 57 APF LLC sold it to 2457 ACQUISITION LLC. That comes to about $758 per square foot of floor area. The deed is ACRIS document 2025010800905002 (BBL 1012720020) in the city's property records. A sale of the company that owns a building is not recorded as a deed, so it would not show there.
24 West 57th Street reported an ENERGY STAR score of 74 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 74 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 81.7 kBtu per square foot, 30% below the national median of 116.4 for a similar property. Its greenhouse gas emissions were about 740 metric tons of CO2e (7.09 kg per square foot).
The Department of Buildings issued no permits for new jobs at 24 West 57th Street in the 12 months to September 2026; the last one was first permitted in October 2021. These are the Department of Buildings' DOB NOW work permits for tax lot 1012720020. 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 $16.3 million for 24 West 57th Street. At the Class 4 rate of 10.848% (tax year 2025/26, the latest rate the Department of Finance lists), that is about $1.76 million a year, roughly $19.87 per square foot of floor area, before abatements such as ICAP. The city's property tax records for BBL 1012720020 show the actual bill.
For tax year 2026/27, the NYC Department of Finance puts the market value of 24 West 57th Street at $39.2 million ($7.85 million of it land) and its assessed value at $17.6 million, the 45% of market value the city assesses for Class 4 property. The city's market value rose 2% from 2022/23 ($38.3 million) to 2026/27.
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