Chanin Building

The Chanin Building has about 862,000 square feet of floor area in total, including 813,000 square feet of office, 42,000 square feet of retail and 7,000 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.

The Landmarks Preservation Commission's building records date the Chanin Building to 1927-1929, designed by Sloan & Robertson, Rene Chambellan. The building is 52 floors tall.

Sloan & Robertson, Rene Chambellan, 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 Chanin Building an individual landmark on November 14, 1978 (LP-00993). Changes to a designated landmark, including many storefront, window and signage changes, need a permit from the Commission.

The Chanin Building is at 374 Lexington Avenue in Grand Central, Manhattan. City records list 117-127 East 41st Street, 122-128 East 42nd Street and 374-388 Lexington Avenue on the same tax lot (BBL 1012960014). A space listed on Leasemark at any of these addresses shows up on this page.

374 Lexington Avenue is in ZIP code 10017, according to the city's tax lot records (NYC PLUTO 26v2) and the Department of Finance's assessment roll. The Chanin Building is at 374 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10017, in Grand Central.

The lot is in the C5-3 zoning district. PLUTO lists a built floor area ratio (FAR) of 29.1 and a maximum commercial FAR of 15 for this lot.

The closest subway station to the Chanin Building is Grand Central-42 St (the 4, 5, 6, 7 and S trains), about 200 feet away in a straight line, roughly 1 minute on foot. The MTA lists it as an accessible station. Also nearby: 5 Av (the 7, B, D, F and M trains, connected to 42 St-Bryant Pk), 7 min walk; 33 St (the 6 train), 9 min walk. Walking times are straight-line estimates; the street route is longer.

The NYC Department of Finance's 2026/27 assessment roll lists C B LAND ASSOCIATES as the owner of record of the Chanin Building (BBL 1012960014). 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 Chanin Building. One investment manager files 13F holdings reports from the address: Hunting Hill Global Capital, 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 Chanin Building reported an ENERGY STAR score of 81 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 81 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 66.9 kBtu per square foot, 39% below the national median of 109.7 for a similar property. Its greenhouse gas emissions were about 5,018 metric tons of CO2e (5.9 kg per square foot).

At its 2024 energy use, the Chanin Building comes to about 3,573 metric tons of CO2e a year under Local Law 97's coefficients, against a limit of 7,195 tons for 2024 to 2029 (50% of the limit), so it would owe no penalty. From 2030 the limit drops to 3,144 tons and the same energy use counts as about 2,442 tons, still under the limit. 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 2 jobs at the Chanin Building. In the last two years, interior work was permitted on 6 floors (floors 1, 16, 17, 22, 40 and 44). The newest build-out, on floor 17, was first permitted in October 2026 (construction, mechanical, plumbing, sprinklers; filed cost estimate $85,000). A sidewalk shed permit here is active until December 2, 2026. These are the Department of Buildings' DOB NOW work permits for tax lot 1012960014. 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 $78 million for the Chanin Building. At the Class 4 rate of 10.848% (tax year 2025/26, the latest rate the Department of Finance lists), that is about $8.46 million a year, roughly $9.81 per square foot of floor area, before abatements such as ICAP. The city's property tax records for BBL 1012960014 show the actual bill.

For tax year 2026/27, the NYC Department of Finance puts the market value of the Chanin Building at $173.3 million ($42.8 million of it land) and its assessed value at $78 million, the 45% of market value the city assesses for Class 4 property. The city's market value fell 2% from 2022/23 ($177.5 million) to 2026/27.

Owners registered 15 storefronts at the Chanin Building for December 31, 2025, the newest annual filing the city has published, and 3 of them stood vacant that day. 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 374 Lexington 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.