520 Broadway

520 Broadway has about 48,000 square feet of floor area in total, including 41,000 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.

The Landmarks Preservation Commission's building records date 520 Broadway to 1900-1901, designed by Buchman & Fox. The building is 11 floors tall.

Buchman & Fox, according to the Landmarks Preservation Commission's building records and its original use as a warehouse.

City records list 520-522 Broadway on the same tax lot (BBL 1004830015) as 520 Broadway. A space listed on Leasemark at any of these addresses shows up on this page.

520 Broadway is in ZIP code 10012, according to the city's tax lot records (NYC PLUTO 26v2) and the Department of Finance's assessment roll. The full mailing address is 520 Broadway, New York, NY 10012, in SoHo.

The lot is in the M1-5/R9X zoning district. PLUTO lists a built floor area ratio (FAR) of 9.65 and a maximum commercial FAR of 5 for this lot. It is inside the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District, so exterior changes go through the Landmarks Preservation Commission.

The closest subway station to 520 Broadway is Spring St (the 6 train), about 450 feet away in a straight line, roughly 2 minutes on foot. Also nearby: Prince St (the R and W trains), 3 min walk; Broadway-Lafayette St (the B, D, F, M and 6 trains, connected to Bleecker St), 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 NW 520 SOHO LLC as the owner of record of 520 Broadway (BBL 1004830015). 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.

520 Broadway last sold in June 2021 for $87.8 million, according to the deed recorded with the city. 520 BROADWAY COMPANY, L.P. sold it to NW 520 SOHO LLC. That comes to about $1,819 per square foot of floor area. The deed is ACRIS document 2021061001636001 (BBL 1004830015) in the city's property records. A sale of the company that owns a building is not recorded as a deed, so it would not show there.

520 Broadway reported an ENERGY STAR score of 82 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 82 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 38.8 kBtu per square foot, 40% below the national median of 65.2 for a similar property. Its greenhouse gas emissions were about 292 metric tons of CO2e (4.47 kg per square foot).

At its 2024 energy use, 520 Broadway comes to about 215 metric tons of CO2e a year under Local Law 97's coefficients, against a limit of 495 tons for 2024 to 2029 (43% of the limit), so it would owe no penalty. From 2030 the limit drops to 176 tons and the same energy use counts as about 108 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 6 jobs at 520 Broadway. In the last two years, interior work was permitted on 3 floors (floors 1 to 3 and the cellar). The newest build-out, on floor 1, was first permitted in May 2026 (construction; filed cost estimate $20,000). These are the Department of Buildings' DOB NOW work permits for tax lot 1004830015. 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 $19.6 million for 520 Broadway. At the Class 4 rate of 10.848% (tax year 2025/26, the latest rate the Department of Finance lists), that is about $2.13 million a year, roughly $44.08 per square foot of floor area, before abatements such as ICAP. The city's property tax records for BBL 1004830015 show the actual bill.

For tax year 2026/27, the NYC Department of Finance puts the market value of 520 Broadway at $53.2 million ($14.5 million of it land) and its assessed value at $23.9 million, the 45% of market value the city assesses for Class 4 property. The city's market value rose 37% from 2022/23 ($38.8 million) to 2026/27.

Owners registered one storefront at 520 Broadway for December 31, 2024, the newest annual filing the city has published, and it was not 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.

No space at 520 Broadway 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.