Design studio seeking 4,000 SF loft
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- Where
- Dumbo, Chelsea +1
- Size
- 3,000 to 5,500 SF
- Budget
- to $70/SF
- Move in
- Nov 2026
Office building with commercial space · Chelsea, Manhattan
New York, NY 10011
541 West 21st Street is an 8-floor office building with commercial space in Chelsea, Manhattan, built in 1915, with about 48,000 square feet of office space according to city records.
Also at 541-545 West 21st Street.
The 18th largest of the 19 office buildings we track in Chelsea. Compare it with 6 neighbors
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Compared with its neighbors
Next to the 6 nearest large office buildings, all within a 4 minute walk, 541 West 21st Street is the smallest by office floor area. It went up in 1915; the median neighbor dates from 1917. Its estimated property tax, about $20.41 a square foot of floor area before abatements, is above the neighbors' median of $11.85.
| Building | Office space | Floors | Built | Tax / SF | Last sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 541 West 21st Street | 48K SF | 8 | 1915 | $20.41 | Dec 2025, $46.2M |
| 529 West 20th Street | 111K SF | 11 | 1930 | $12.17 | n/a |
| 510 West 22nd Street | 88K SF | 11 | 1920 | $10.34 | n/a |
| 513 West 20th Street | 74K SF | 7 | 1910 | $9.84 | n/a |
| 516 West 20th Street | 69K SF | 7 | 1914 | $21.95 | n/a |
| IAC Building, 555 West 18th Street | 195K SF | 10 | 2007 | $18.88 | Apr 2023, $80M (2 lots) |
| Zinn Building, 210 Eleventh Avenue | 108K SF | 11 | 1911 | $11.54 | n/a |
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 541 W 21 CAPITAL LLC as the owner of record. For tax year 2026/27 the city values 541 West 21st Street at $24.7 million and assesses it at $11.1 million. After phase-ins and exemptions its taxable value is $10.4 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 $1.13 million a year before abatements, roughly $20.41 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 property records (ACRIS)
541 West 21st Street last sold in December 2025 for $46.2 million, according to the deed recorded with the city. The buyer of record was 541 W 21 CAPITAL LLC. That comes to about $838 per square foot of floor area.
Source: NYC Department of Finance, ACRIS, Real Property Master, Legals and Parties, pulled 2026-10-08; prices as the deeds state them, names as recorded (companies and public bodies only). Shown are deeds that move the whole lot for a real price. Transfers between related companies for a nominal sum, sales of partial interests, land sales before the building went up and sales of the company that owns a building are left out.
NYC energy benchmarking (Local Law 84)
541 West 21st Street's 2022 Local Law 84 benchmarking filing got no ENERGY STAR score, and Local Law 33 letter grades come from that score, so the filing does not yield an A to D grade. Its site energy use came to 8.7 kBtu per square foot, less than half the national median of 41.6 for a similar property. Its greenhouse gas emissions were about 42.3 metric tons of CO2e (0.7 kg per square foot).
Source: NYC Department of Buildings and Mayor's Office of Climate and Environmental Justice, NYC Building Energy and Water Data Disclosure for Local Law 84 (2022 filing), pulled 2026-10-08; grade cutoffs from the Department of Buildings energy grades page. Figures are as the owner filed them in ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager.
Local Law 97 of 2019, estimated
At its 2022 energy use, 541 West 21st Street comes to about 42 metric tons of CO2e a year under Local Law 97's coefficients, against a limit of 433 tons for 2024 to 2029 (10% of the limit), so it would owe no penalty. From 2030 the limit drops to 154 tons and the same energy use counts as about 21 tons, still under the limit.
Estimated from the owner's 2022 Local Law 84 filing, which reports energy by source and floor area by use: Office 57,150 SF. It applies the coefficients and per-use limits in Department of Buildings rule 1 RCNY 103-14 and Administrative Code 28-320.3.1.1 (as the Department lists them) and the $268 per ton penalty, checked 2026-10-04. It is not the building's Local Law 97 report: that report can count renewable energy credits, solar and storage deductions and, for 2024 and 2025, the law's occupancy group limits where higher, and penalties can be reduced for good faith efforts.
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NYC Department of Buildings permits
The Department of Buildings issued no permits for new jobs at 541 West 21st Street in the 12 months to October 2026; the last one was first permitted in November 2021.
Build-outs across ChelseaWhere 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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541 West 21st Street has about 55,000 square feet of floor area in total, including 48,000 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.
City records list 1915 as the year built, with a major alteration recorded in 2019. The building is 8 floors tall.
City records list 541-545 West 21st Street on the same tax lot (BBL 1006930010) as 541 West 21st Street. A space listed on Leasemark at any of these addresses shows up on this page.
541 West 21st Street is in ZIP code 10011, according to the city's tax lot records (NYC PLUTO 26v2) and the Department of Finance's assessment roll. The full mailing address is 541 West 21st Street, New York, NY 10011, in Chelsea.
The lot is in the M1-5 zoning district. PLUTO lists a built floor area ratio (FAR) of 7.39 and a maximum commercial FAR of 5 for this lot.
The closest subway station to 541 West 21st Street is 23 St (the C and E trains), about 0.5 miles away in a straight line, roughly 10 minutes on foot. Also nearby: 14 St (the A, C, E and L trains, connected to 8 Av), 11 min walk; 23 St (the 1 train), 13 min walk. Walking times are straight-line estimates; the street route is longer.
The NYC Department of Finance's 2026/27 assessment roll lists 541 W 21 CAPITAL LLC as the owner of record of 541 West 21st Street (BBL 1006930010). 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.
541 West 21st Street last sold in December 2025 for $46.2 million, according to the deed recorded with the city. The buyer of record was 541 W 21 CAPITAL LLC. That comes to about $838 per square foot of floor area. The deed is ACRIS document 2026010800381009 (BBL 1006930010) 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.
541 West 21st Street's 2022 Local Law 84 benchmarking filing got no ENERGY STAR score, and Local Law 33 letter grades come from that score, so the filing does not yield an A to D grade. Its site energy use came to 8.7 kBtu per square foot, less than half the national median of 41.6 for a similar property. Its greenhouse gas emissions were about 42.3 metric tons of CO2e (0.7 kg per square foot).
At its 2022 energy use, 541 West 21st Street comes to about 42 metric tons of CO2e a year under Local Law 97's coefficients, against a limit of 433 tons for 2024 to 2029 (10% of the limit), so it would owe no penalty. From 2030 the limit drops to 154 tons and the same energy use counts as about 21 tons, still under the limit. This is an estimate from the owner's 2022 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.
The Department of Buildings issued no permits for new jobs at 541 West 21st Street in the 12 months to October 2026; the last one was first permitted in November 2021. These are the Department of Buildings' DOB NOW work permits for tax lot 1006930010. 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 $10.4 million for 541 West 21st Street. At the Class 4 rate of 10.848% (tax year 2025/26, the latest rate the Department of Finance lists), that is about $1.13 million a year, roughly $20.41 per square foot of floor area, before abatements such as ICAP. The city's property tax records for BBL 1006930010 show the actual bill.
For tax year 2026/27, the NYC Department of Finance puts the market value of 541 West 21st Street at $24.7 million ($1.46 million of it land) and its assessed value at $11.1 million, the 45% of market value the city assesses for Class 4 property. The city's market value rose 18% from 2022/23 ($21 million) to 2026/27.
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