Simpson, Crawford & Simpson Building

The Simpson, Crawford & Simpson Building has about 77,000 square feet of floor area in total, including 57,000 square feet of office and 20,000 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 the Simpson, Crawford & Simpson Building to 1900-1902, designed by William H. Hume & Son. The building is 8 floors tall.

William H. Hume & Son, according to the Landmarks Preservation Commission's building records, which list the style as Beaux-Arts and its original use as a department store.

The Simpson, Crawford & Simpson Building is at 635 Avenue of the Americas in Flatiron, Manhattan. City records list 109 West 19th Street on the same tax lot (BBL 1007950037). A space listed on Leasemark at any of these addresses shows up on this page.

635 Avenue of the Americas 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 Simpson, Crawford & Simpson Building is at 635 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10011, in Flatiron.

The lot is in the C6-2A zoning district. PLUTO lists a built floor area ratio (FAR) of 7.94 and a maximum commercial FAR of 6 for this lot. It is inside the Ladies' Mile Historic District, so exterior changes go through the Landmarks Preservation Commission.

The closest subway station to the Simpson, Crawford & Simpson Building is 18 St (the 1 train), about 850 feet away in a straight line, roughly 3 minutes on foot. Also nearby: 23 St (the F and M trains), 4 min walk; 14 St (the 1, 2, 3, F, M and L trains, connected to 6 Av), 4 min walk. Walking times are straight-line estimates; the street route is longer.

The NYC Department of Finance's 2026/27 assessment roll lists 635 AOA OWNER, LLC as the owner of record of the Simpson, Crawford & Simpson Building (BBL 1007950037). 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.

The Simpson, Crawford & Simpson Building last sold in June 2021 for $121.2 million, according to the deed recorded with the city. 635 OWNER LLC sold it to 635 AOA OWNER, LLC. That comes to about $1,582 per square foot of floor area. The deed is ACRIS document 2021061400846005 (BBL 1007950037) 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.

The Simpson, Crawford & Simpson Building's 2024 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 93.1 kBtu per square foot, 84% above the national median of 50.5 for a similar property. Its greenhouse gas emissions were about 696 metric tons of CO2e (9.08 kg per square foot).

In the 12 months to September 2026, the Department of Buildings issued first permits for 4 jobs at the Simpson, Crawford & Simpson Building. In the last two years, interior work was permitted on 8 floors (floors 1 to 8 and the cellar). The newest build-out, on floor 5, was first permitted in August 2026 (construction, mechanical, sprinklers; filed cost estimate $190,000). These are the Department of Buildings' DOB NOW work permits for tax lot 1007950037. 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 $24 million for the Simpson, Crawford & Simpson Building. At the Class 4 rate of 10.848% (tax year 2025/26, the latest rate the Department of Finance lists), that is about $2.6 million a year, roughly $33.91 per square foot of floor area, before abatements such as ICAP. The city's property tax records for BBL 1007950037 show the actual bill.

For tax year 2026/27, the NYC Department of Finance puts the market value of the Simpson, Crawford & Simpson Building at $62.1 million ($4.01 million of it land) and its assessed value at $27.9 million, the 45% of market value the city assesses for Class 4 property. The city's market value rose 30% from 2022/23 ($47.9 million) to 2026/27.

Owners registered one storefront at the Simpson, Crawford & Simpson Building 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 635 Avenue of the Americas 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.