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- Where
- Chelsea
- Size
- 1,800 to 1,800 SF
- Budget
- to $43/SF
- Move in
- Nov 2026
Office building · Chelsea, Manhattan
New York, NY 10001
322 Eighth Avenue is a 21-floor office building in Chelsea, Manhattan, built in 1925, with about 166,000 square feet of office space according to city records.
Also at 322-326 Eighth Avenue and 253-261 West 26th Street.
The 3rd largest of the 19 office buildings we track in Chelsea. Compare it with 6 neighbors
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Compared with its neighbors
Next to the 6 nearest large office buildings, all within a 3 minute walk, 322 Eighth Avenue is the largest by office floor area. It went up in 1925; the median neighbor dates from 1925. Its estimated property tax, about $10.40 a square foot of floor area before abatements, is above the neighbors' median of $9.00.
| Building | Office space | Floors | Built | Tax / SF |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 322 Eighth Avenue | 166K SF | 21 | 1925 | $10.40 |
| 236 West 27th Street | 84K SF | 15 | 1929 | $8.06 |
| 226 West 26th Street | 76K SF | 10 | 1928 | $10.70 |
| 239 West 28th Street | 138K SF | 12 | 1917 | $13.76 |
| 29th Street Towers, 224 West 29th Street | 41K SF | 14 | 1926 | $8.05 |
| 29th Street Towers, 214 West 29th Street | 117K SF | 16 | 1925 | $9.94 |
| 207 West 28th Street | 52K SF | 6 | 1925 | $3.80 |
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). Large means at least 35,000 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 2026-10-16; addresses from the Property Address Directory (PAD) 26b; subway stations from the MTA Subway Stations dataset, pulled 2026-10-16. 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 2 storefronts at 322 Eighth Avenue for December 31, 2025, the newest annual filing the city has published, and none stood 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 2025, pulled 2026-10-16. 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 2025 filing was due June 1, 2026, 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 322 PARTNERS as the owner of record. For tax year 2026/27 the city values 322 Eighth Avenue at $37.9 million and assesses it at $17 million. After phase-ins and exemptions its taxable value is $16.6 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 $1.81 million a year before abatements, roughly $10.40 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.
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How to find who owns any NYC buildingSource: 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 2026-10-16; 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.
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NYC energy benchmarking (Local Law 84)
322 Eighth Avenue reported an ENERGY STAR score of 90 out of 100 for 2024 in its Local Law 84 benchmarking filing. Under Local Law 33 that score earns an A (85 or higher). Its site energy use came to 54 kBtu per square foot, less than half the national median of 111.7 for a similar property. Its greenhouse gas emissions were about 978 metric tons of CO2e (5.17 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 2026-10-16; 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.
Local Law 97 of 2019, estimated
At its 2024 energy use, 322 Eighth Avenue comes to about 814 metric tons of CO2e a year under Local Law 97's coefficients, against a limit of 1,445 tons for 2024 to 2029 (56% of the limit), so it would owe no penalty. From 2030 the limit drops to 510 tons and the same energy use counts as about 587 tons, about 78 tons over, or an estimated $21,000 a year unless the building cuts its emissions.
Estimated from the owner's 2024 Local Law 84 filing, which reports energy by source and floor area by use: Restaurant 2,800 SF; Office 181,249 SF; Retail Store 5,000 SF. It applies the coefficients and per-use limits in Department of Buildings rule 1 RCNY 103-14 and Administrative Code 28-320.3.1.1 (as the Department lists them) and the $268 per ton penalty, checked 2026-10-04. It is not the building's Local Law 97 report: that report can count renewable energy credits, solar and storage deductions and, for 2024 and 2025, the law's occupancy group limits where higher, and penalties can be reduced for good faith efforts.
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NYC Department of Buildings permits
In the 12 months to October 2026, the Department of Buildings issued first permits for 8 jobs at 322 Eighth Avenue. In the last two years, interior work was permitted on 7 floors (floors 2, 12, 13, 17 and 19 to 21). The newest build-out, on floor 12, was first permitted in April 2026 (mechanical; filed cost estimate $300,000).
Build-outs across ChelseaWhere NYC offices are being built out
Source: NYC Department of Buildings, DOB NOW: Build Approved Permits, pulled 2026-10-24 (permits issued through 2026-10-22). 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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322 Eighth Avenue has about 173,000 square feet of floor area in total, including 166,000 square feet of office and 7,000 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 1925 as the year built, with a major alteration recorded in 1985. The building is 21 floors tall.
City records list 322-326 Eighth Avenue and 253-261 West 26th Street on the same tax lot (BBL 1007760001) as 322 Eighth Avenue. A space listed on Leasemark at any of these addresses shows up on this page.
322 Eighth Avenue is in ZIP code 10001, according to the city's tax lot records (NYC PLUTO 26v2) and the Department of Finance's assessment roll. The full mailing address is 322 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10001, in Chelsea.
The lot is in the C6-2A zoning district. PLUTO lists a built floor area ratio (FAR) of 18.06 and a maximum commercial FAR of 6 for this lot.
The closest subway station to 322 Eighth Avenue is 23 St (the C and E trains), about 600 feet away in a straight line, roughly 2 minutes on foot. Also nearby: 28 St (the 1 train), 3 min walk; 23 St (the 1 train), 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 322 PARTNERS as the owner of record of 322 Eighth Avenue (BBL 1007760001). Deeds and mortgages for the lot are public in ACRIS, the city's property records system.
322 Eighth Avenue reported an ENERGY STAR score of 90 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 90 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 54 kBtu per square foot, less than half the national median of 111.7 for a similar property. Its greenhouse gas emissions were about 978 metric tons of CO2e (5.17 kg per square foot).
At its 2024 energy use, 322 Eighth Avenue comes to about 814 metric tons of CO2e a year under Local Law 97's coefficients, against a limit of 1,445 tons for 2024 to 2029 (56% of the limit), so it would owe no penalty. From 2030 the limit drops to 510 tons and the same energy use counts as about 587 tons, about 78 tons over, or an estimated $21,000 a year unless the building cuts its emissions. This is an estimate from the owner's 2024 benchmarking filing using the coefficients and per-use limits in the law and the Department of Buildings rule, at $268 per ton over. It is not the building's Local Law 97 report, which can count credits and deductions this estimate cannot.
In the 12 months to October 2026, the Department of Buildings issued first permits for 8 jobs at 322 Eighth Avenue. In the last two years, interior work was permitted on 7 floors (floors 2, 12, 13, 17 and 19 to 21). The newest build-out, on floor 12, was first permitted in April 2026 (mechanical; filed cost estimate $300,000). These are the Department of Buildings' DOB NOW work permits for tax lot 1007760001. 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 $16.6 million for 322 Eighth Avenue. At the Class 4 rate of 10.848% (tax year 2025/26, the latest rate the Department of Finance lists), that is about $1.81 million a year, roughly $10.40 per square foot of floor area, before abatements such as ICAP. The city's property tax records for BBL 1007760001 show the actual bill.
For tax year 2026/27, the NYC Department of Finance puts the market value of 322 Eighth Avenue at $37.9 million ($5.02 million of it land) and its assessed value at $17 million, the 45% of market value the city assesses for Class 4 property. The city's market value rose 3% from 2022/23 ($36.9 million) to 2026/27.
Owners registered 2 storefronts at 322 Eighth Avenue for December 31, 2025, 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.
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