Empire State Building

The Empire State Building has about 2.8 million square feet of floor area in total, including 2.7 million square feet of office and 127,000 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 Empire State Building to 1929-1931, designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon (William Lamb). The building is 102 floors tall.

Shreve, Lamb & Harmon (William Lamb), according to the Landmarks Preservation Commission's building records, which list the style as Art Deco and its original use as an office building.

Yes. The Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Empire State Building an individual landmark on May 19, 1981 (LP-02000). Changes to a designated landmark, including many storefront, window and signage changes, need a permit from the Commission.

The Empire State Building is at 338 Fifth Avenue in Midtown South, Manhattan. City records list 338-350 Fifth Avenue, 1-31 West 33rd Street and 2-20 West 34th Street on the same tax lot (BBL 1008350041). A space listed on Leasemark at any of these addresses shows up on this page.

City records give two ZIP codes for this tax lot: 10001 in NYC PLUTO 26v2 and 10118 on the Department of Finance's assessment roll. Some large New York buildings have a ZIP code of their own beside the area's, so check with the building's management which one it uses before you rely on either.

The lot is in the C5-3 zoning district. PLUTO lists a built floor area ratio (FAR) of 30.79 and a maximum commercial FAR of 15 for this lot.

The closest subway station to the Empire State Building is 34 St-Herald Sq (the B, D, F, M, N, Q, R and W trains), about 750 feet away in a straight line, roughly 3 minutes on foot. The MTA lists it as an accessible station. Also nearby: 33 St (the 6 train), 5 min walk; 28 St (the R and W trains), 5 min walk. Walking times are straight-line estimates; the street route is longer.

The NYC Department of Finance's 2026/27 assessment roll lists ESRT EMPIRE STATE BUILDING, L.L.C. as the owner of record of the Empire State Building (BBL 1008350041). 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.

Leasemark does not have the building's tenant roster, but SEC filings name companies with offices at the Empire State Building. 4 public companies report the address as their principal executive office: COTY INC. (COTY); IN8BIO, INC. (INAB); ROCKET PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. (RCKT); and SHUTTERSTOCK, INC. (SSTK). One investment manager files 13F holdings reports from the address: Axiom Investment Management LLC. Private companies do not file with the SEC, so the full list of tenants is longer, and a company can also report a building it owns.

The Empire State Building reported an ENERGY STAR score of 78 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 78 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 61.4 kBtu per square foot, 35% below the national median of 94.9 for a similar property. Its greenhouse gas emissions were about 16,678 metric tons of CO2e (5.85 kg per square foot).

In the 12 months to October 2026, the Department of Buildings issued first permits for 62 jobs at the Empire State Building. In the last two years, interior work was permitted on 86 floors (floors 1 to 86, the cellar and the sub-cellar). The newest build-out, on floors 11 to 13, was first permitted in October 2026 (construction, mechanical, sprinklers; filed cost estimate $118,000). These are the Department of Buildings' DOB NOW work permits for tax lot 1008350041. 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 $492.4 million for the Empire State Building. At the Class 4 rate of 10.848% (tax year 2025/26, the latest rate the Department of Finance lists), that is about $53.4 million a year, roughly $18.99 per square foot of floor area, before abatements such as ICAP. The city's property tax records for BBL 1008350041 show the actual bill.

For tax year 2026/27, the NYC Department of Finance puts the market value of the Empire State Building at $1.28 billion ($220 million of it land) and its assessed value at $577.4 million, the 45% of market value the city assesses for Class 4 property. The city's market value rose 42% from 2022/23 ($906.1 million) to 2026/27.

Owners registered 19 storefronts at the Empire State Building for December 31, 2025, the newest annual filing the city has published, and 2 of them stood vacant that day. A year earlier, none of 19 did. 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 338 Fifth Avenue 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.