655 Fifth Avenue

655 Fifth Avenue has about 52,000 square feet of floor area in total, including 39,000 square feet of office and 13,000 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 1912 as the year built, with a major alteration recorded in 1969. The building is 9 floors tall.

City records list 1 East 52nd Street and 655-657 Fifth Avenue on the same tax lot (BBL 1012880001) as 655 Fifth Avenue. A space listed on Leasemark at any of these addresses shows up on this page.

655 Fifth Avenue is in ZIP code 10022, according to the city's tax lot records (NYC PLUTO 26v2) and the Department of Finance's assessment roll. The full mailing address is 655 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10022, in Midtown.

The lot is in the C5-3 zoning district. PLUTO lists a built floor area ratio (FAR) of 9.11 and a maximum commercial FAR of 15 for this lot.

The closest subway station to 655 Fifth Avenue is 5 Av/53 St (the E and F trains), about 250 feet away in a straight line, roughly 1 minute on foot. Also nearby: 51 St (the 6, E and F trains, connected to Lexington Av/53 St), 6 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 655 FIFTH AVENUE LLC as the owner of record of 655 Fifth Avenue (BBL 1012880001). 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.

655 Fifth Avenue last sold in October 2010 for $71 million, according to the deed recorded with the city. 655 FIFTH OWNER LLC, A DELAWARE CORPORATION sold it to MM 655 FIFTH LLC, A DELAWARE LIMITED LIABILITY. That comes to about $1,355 per square foot of floor area. The deed is ACRIS document 2010102900242001 (BBL 1012880001) 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.

655 Fifth Avenue's 2024 Local Law 84 benchmarking filing got no ENERGY STAR score (no single use that ENERGY STAR scores covers more than half of the floor area), 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 96 kBtu per square foot, 2.5 times the national median of 38.4 for a similar property. Its greenhouse gas emissions were about 521 metric tons of CO2e (9.59 kg per square foot).

At its 2024 energy use, 655 Fifth Avenue comes to about 386 metric tons of CO2e a year under Local Law 97's coefficients, against a limit of 396 tons for 2024 to 2029 (98% 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 227 tons, about 74 tons over, or an estimated $20,000 a year unless the building cuts its emissions. 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 4 jobs at 655 Fifth Avenue. In the last two years, interior work was permitted on 2 floors (floors 1 and 2, the cellar and the mezzanine). The newest build-out, on floors 1 and 2, was first permitted in May 2026 (mechanical; filed cost estimate $25,000). These are the Department of Buildings' DOB NOW work permits for tax lot 1012880001. 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 $40.5 million for 655 Fifth Avenue. At the Class 4 rate of 10.848% (tax year 2025/26, the latest rate the Department of Finance lists), that is about $4.39 million a year, roughly $83.76 per square foot of floor area, before abatements such as ICAP. The city's property tax records for BBL 1012880001 show the actual bill.

For tax year 2026/27, the NYC Department of Finance puts the market value of 655 Fifth Avenue at $89.9 million ($11.5 million of it land) and its assessed value at $40.5 million, the 45% of market value the city assesses for Class 4 property. The city's market value rose 2% from 2022/23 ($88.1 million) to 2026/27.

No space at 655 Fifth Avenue 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.