508 West 26th Street

508 West 26th Street has about 146,000 square feet of floor area in total, including 126,000 square feet of office, 19,000 square feet of retail and 1,000 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 508 West 26th Street to 1926-1927, designed by Parker & Shaffer. The building is 9 floors tall.

Parker & Shaffer, according to the Landmarks Preservation Commission's building records, which list the style as Industrial Neoclassical and its original use as a factory.

City records list 508-516 West 26th Street on the same tax lot (BBL 1006970042) as 508 West 26th Street. A space listed on Leasemark at any of these addresses shows up on this page.

508 West 26th Street 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 508 West 26th Street, New York, NY 10001, in Chelsea.

The lot is in the M1-5 zoning district. PLUTO lists a built floor area ratio (FAR) of 11.86 and a maximum commercial FAR of 5 for this lot. It is inside the West Chelsea Historic District, so exterior changes go through the Landmarks Preservation Commission.

The closest subway station to 508 West 26th Street is 23 St (the C and E trains), about 0.4 miles away in a straight line, roughly 8 minutes on foot. Also nearby: 34 St-Hudson Yards (the 7 train), 9 min walk; 34 St-Penn Station (the A, C and E trains), 11 min walk. Walking times are straight-line estimates; the street route is longer.

The NYC Department of Finance's 2026/27 assessment roll lists WEST CHELSEA BUILDING LLC as the owner of record of 508 West 26th Street (BBL 1006970042). 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.

508 West 26th Street reported an ENERGY STAR score of 83 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 83 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 40.1 kBtu per square foot, 42% below the national median of 69 for a similar property. Its greenhouse gas emissions were about 672 metric tons of CO2e (4.59 kg per square foot).

At its 2024 energy use, 508 West 26th Street comes to about 495 metric tons of CO2e a year under Local Law 97's coefficients, against a limit of 1,110 tons for 2024 to 2029 (45% of the limit), so it would owe no penalty. From 2030 the limit drops to 394 tons and the same energy use counts as about 250 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 1 job at 508 West 26th Street. In the last two years, interior work was permitted on 2 floors (floors 4 and 10). The newest build-out, on floor 4, was first permitted in June 2026 (plumbing, sprinklers; filed cost estimate $19,000). These are the Department of Buildings' DOB NOW work permits for tax lot 1006970042. 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 $9.78 million for 508 West 26th Street. At the Class 4 rate of 10.848% (tax year 2025/26, the latest rate the Department of Finance lists), that is about $1.06 million a year, roughly $7.24 per square foot of floor area, before abatements such as ICAP. The city's property tax records for BBL 1006970042 show the actual bill.

For tax year 2026/27, the NYC Department of Finance puts the market value of 508 West 26th Street at $25.1 million ($2.72 million of it land) and its assessed value at $11.3 million, the 45% of market value the city assesses for Class 4 property. The city's market value rose 39% from 2022/23 ($18 million) to 2026/27.

No space at 508 West 26th Street is listed on Leasemark right now. 1 tenant is looking for office space in Chelsea. Owners and brokers can list space here for free, and tenants can post a requirement to be matched when space opens up.