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 10017
418 Madison Avenue is a 15-floor office building with commercial space in Midtown, Manhattan, built in 1927, with about 41,000 square feet of office space according to city records.
Also at 418-420 Madison Avenue.
The 334th largest of the 351 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 1 minute walk, 418 Madison Avenue is the smallest by office floor area. It went up in 1927; the median neighbor dates from 1928. Its estimated property tax, about $9.09 a square foot of floor area before abatements, is below the neighbors' median of $15.59.
| Building | Office space | Floors | Built | Tax / SF | Last sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 418 Madison Avenue | 41K SF | 15 | 1927 | $9.09 | n/a |
| 410 Madison Avenue | 52K SF | 7 | 1964 | $11.79 | Jun 2020, $115M |
| 424 Madison Avenue | 60K SF | 15 | 1926 | $14.56 | Nov 2006, $31M |
| Tower 49, 7 East 48th Street | 654K SF | 45 | 1984 | $16.91 | n/a |
| 425 Madison Avenue | 98K SF | 19 | 1927 | $8.58 | n/a |
| 18 East 48th Street | 109K SF | 22 | 1928 | $16.62 | n/a |
| 400 Madison Avenue | 138K SF | 20 | 1929 | $21.28 | Oct 2018, $195M |
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 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 2026-10-05; addresses from the Property Address Directory (PAD) 26b; subway stations from the MTA Subway Stations dataset, pulled 2026-10-05. 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 LEE TAI ENTERPRISES USA LTD as the owner of record. For tax year 2026/27 the city values 418 Madison Avenue at $8.72 million and assesses it at $3.93 million. After phase-ins and exemptions its taxable value is $3.87 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 $419,525 a year before abatements, roughly $9.09 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 2026-10-08; 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 Department of Buildings permits
The Department of Buildings issued no permits for new jobs at 418 Madison Avenue in the 12 months to October 2026; the last one was first permitted in January 2022.
Build-outs across MidtownWhere NYC offices are being built out
Source: NYC Department of Buildings, DOB NOW: Build Approved Permits, pulled 2026-10-08 (permits issued through 2026-10-06). 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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418 Madison Avenue has about 46,000 square feet of floor area in total, including 41,000 square feet of office and 5,000 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 1927 as the year built, with a major alteration recorded in 1988. The building is 15 floors tall.
City records list 418-420 Madison Avenue on the same tax lot (BBL 1012840017) as 418 Madison Avenue. A space listed on Leasemark at any of these addresses shows up on this page.
418 Madison 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 full mailing address is 418 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10017, in Midtown.
The lot is in the C5-3 zoning district. PLUTO lists a built floor area ratio (FAR) of 14.1 and a maximum commercial FAR of 15 for this lot.
The closest subway station to 418 Madison Avenue is 5 Av/53 St (the E and F trains), about 0.2 miles away in a straight line, roughly 5 minutes on foot. Also nearby: 51 St (the 6, E and F trains, connected to Lexington Av/53 St), 5 min walk; 47-50 Sts-Rockefeller Ctr (the B, D, F and M 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 LEE TAI ENTERPRISES USA LTD as the owner of record of 418 Madison Avenue (BBL 1012840017). Deeds and mortgages for the lot are public in ACRIS, the city's property records system.
The Department of Buildings issued no permits for new jobs at 418 Madison Avenue in the 12 months to October 2026; the last one was first permitted in January 2022. These are the Department of Buildings' DOB NOW work permits for tax lot 1012840017. 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 $3.87 million for 418 Madison Avenue. At the Class 4 rate of 10.848% (tax year 2025/26, the latest rate the Department of Finance lists), that is about $419,525 a year, roughly $9.09 per square foot of floor area, before abatements such as ICAP. The city's property tax records for BBL 1012840017 show the actual bill.
For tax year 2026/27, the NYC Department of Finance puts the market value of 418 Madison Avenue at $8.72 million ($3.09 million of it land) and its assessed value at $3.93 million, the 45% of market value the city assesses for Class 4 property. The city's market value rose 5% from 2022/23 ($8.29 million) to 2026/27.
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