Factory and industrial building · Garment District, Manhattan
New York, NY 10018
257 West 38th Street is a 16-floor factory and industrial building in the Garment District, Manhattan, built in 1927, with about 74,000 square feet of industrial and storage space according to city records.
Also at 257-261 West 38th Street.
The 5th largest of the 6 industrial and storage buildings we track in the Garment District. Compare it with 6 neighbors
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Compared with its neighbors
Next to the 6 nearest large industrial and storage buildings, all within a 8 minute walk, 257 West 38th Street ranks 6th of 7 by industrial and storage floor area. It went up in 1927; the median neighbor dates from 1924. Its estimated property tax, about $8.66 a square foot of floor area before abatements, is close to the neighbors' median of $8.76.
| Building | Industrial and storage space | Floors | Built | Tax / SF | Last sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 257 West 38th Street | 74K SF | 16 | 1927 | $8.66 | n/a |
| 247 West 38th Street | 86K SF | 17 | 1924 | $6.07 | n/a |
| 554 Eighth Avenue | 228K SF | 21 | 1924 | $12.24 | n/a |
| 306 West 38th Street | 69K SF | 16 | 1927 | $10.10 | n/a |
| 329 West 36th Street | 103K SF | 12 | 1924 | $4.68 | n/a |
| 254 West 35th Street | 107K SF | 16 | 1924 | $7.42 | Nov 2024, $16.1M |
| 501 Tenth Avenue | 193K SF | 7 | 1930 | $11.28 | Dec 2010, $40.5M (3 lots) |
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 storefront registry (Local Law 157)
Owners registered one storefront at 257 West 38th Street for December 31, 2024, the newest annual filing the city has published, and it was not vacant that day.
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Source: NYC Department of Finance, Storefronts Reported Vacant or Not (Local Law 157), annual filings for 2019 to 2024, pulled 2026-10-02. Owners of buildings with ground- or second-floor storefronts register each one every year with its status on December 31; counts are by tax lot, as the owners filed them. The 2024 filing was due June 3, 2025, so a storefront vacant then may have been leased since. A vacant storefront is not always on the market, and none here is listed on Leasemark unless it shows above.
NYC Department of Finance records
The Department of Finance lists UZI REALTY CORP as the owner of record. For tax year 2026/27 the city values 257 West 38th Street at $14.2 million and assesses it at $6.39 million. After phase-ins and exemptions its taxable value is $6.25 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 $677,911 a year before abatements, roughly $8.66 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 energy benchmarking (Local Law 84)
257 West 38th 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 73.7 kBtu per square foot. Its greenhouse gas emissions were about 556 metric tons of CO2e (7.1 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.
NYC Department of Buildings permits
The Department of Buildings issued no permits for new jobs at 257 West 38th Street in the 12 months to September 2026; the last one was first permitted in February 2023.
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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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257 West 38th Street has about 78,000 square feet of floor area in total, including 5,000 square feet of retail and 74,000 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 1927 as the year built. The building is 16 floors tall.
City records list 257-261 West 38th Street on the same tax lot (BBL 1007880016) as 257 West 38th Street. A space listed on Leasemark at any of these addresses shows up on this page.
257 West 38th 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 full mailing address is 257 West 38th Street, New York, NY 10018, in the Garment District.
The lot is in the M1-9A zoning district. PLUTO lists a built floor area ratio (FAR) of 14.76 and a maximum commercial FAR of 15 for this lot.
The closest subway station to 257 West 38th 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 900 feet away in a straight line, roughly 3 minutes on foot. The MTA lists it as an accessible station. Also nearby: 34 St-Penn Station (the A, C and E trains), 4 min walk; 34 St-Penn Station (the 1, 2 and 3 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 UZI REALTY CORP as the owner of record of 257 West 38th Street (BBL 1007880016). Deeds and mortgages for the lot are public in ACRIS, the city's property records system.
257 West 38th 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 73.7 kBtu per square foot. Its greenhouse gas emissions were about 556 metric tons of CO2e (7.1 kg per square foot).
The Department of Buildings issued no permits for new jobs at 257 West 38th Street in the 12 months to September 2026; the last one was first permitted in February 2023. These are the Department of Buildings' DOB NOW work permits for tax lot 1007880016. 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 $6.25 million for 257 West 38th Street. At the Class 4 rate of 10.848% (tax year 2025/26, the latest rate the Department of Finance lists), that is about $677,911 a year, roughly $8.66 per square foot of floor area, before abatements such as ICAP. The city's property tax records for BBL 1007880016 show the actual bill.
For tax year 2026/27, the NYC Department of Finance puts the market value of 257 West 38th Street at $14.2 million ($1.39 million of it land) and its assessed value at $6.39 million, the 45% of market value the city assesses for Class 4 property. The city's market value rose 9% from 2022/23 ($13 million) to 2026/27.
Owners registered one storefront at 257 West 38th Street for December 31, 2024, the newest annual filing the city has published, and it was not 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 257 West 38th 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.
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