Roosevelt Building

The Roosevelt Building has about 219,000 square feet of floor area in total, including 208,000 square feet of office and 11,000 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 Roosevelt Building to 1893-1894, designed by Stephen Decatur Hatch. City tax records list 1900 as the year built. The building is 21 floors tall.

Stephen Decatur Hatch, according to the Landmarks Preservation Commission's building records, which list the style as Transitional Romanesque Revival and its original use as store and lofts.

Yes. The Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Roosevelt Building an individual landmark on June 11, 2019 (LP-02620). Changes to a designated landmark, including many storefront, window and signage changes, need a permit from the Commission.

The Roosevelt Building is at 849 Broadway in Union Square, Manhattan. City records list 837-853 Broadway, 53-63 East 13th Street and 50 East 14th Street on the same tax lot (BBL 1005650015). A space listed on Leasemark at any of these addresses shows up on this page.

849 Broadway is in ZIP code 10003, according to the city's tax lot records (NYC PLUTO 26v2) and the Department of Finance's assessment roll. The Roosevelt Building is at 849 Broadway, New York, NY 10003, in Union Square.

The lot is in the C6-1 zoning district. PLUTO lists a built floor area ratio (FAR) of 12.25 and a maximum commercial FAR of 6 for this lot.

The closest subway station to the Roosevelt Building is 14 St-Union Sq (the 4, 5, 6, L, N, Q, R and W trains), about 150 feet away in a straight line, roughly 1 minute on foot. The MTA lists it as an accessible station. Also nearby: 3 Av (the L train), 6 min walk; 8 St-NYU (the R and W 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 841-853 FEE OWNER LLC as the owner of record of the Roosevelt Building (BBL 1005650015). 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.

Leasemark does not have the building's tenant roster, but SEC filings name companies with offices at the Roosevelt Building. One investment manager files 13F holdings reports from the address: Lepercq De Neuflize Asset Management LLC. Private companies do not file with the SEC, so the full list of tenants is longer, and a company can also report a building it owns.

The Roosevelt Building's 2024 Local Law 84 benchmarking filing got no ENERGY STAR score (a campus of several buildings cannot get a 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 67.6 kBtu per square foot, 25% above the national median of 53.9 for a similar property. Its greenhouse gas emissions were about 1,627 metric tons of CO2e (6.25 kg per square foot).

At its 2024 energy use, the Roosevelt Building comes to about 1,288 metric tons of CO2e a year under Local Law 97's coefficients, against a limit of 2,094 tons for 2024 to 2029 (61% of the limit), so it would owe no penalty. From 2030 the limit drops to 739 tons and the same energy use counts as about 816 tons, about 78 tons over, or an estimated $21,000 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 9 jobs at the Roosevelt Building. In the last two years, interior work was permitted on 8 floors (floors 1, 2, 4 to 8 and 15). The newest build-out, on floor 4, was first permitted in September 2026 (construction, structural; filed cost estimate $70,000). These are the Department of Buildings' DOB NOW work permits for tax lot 1005650015. 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 $58.2 million for the Roosevelt Building. At the Class 4 rate of 10.848% (tax year 2025/26, the latest rate the Department of Finance lists), that is about $6.31 million a year, roughly $28.82 per square foot of floor area, before abatements such as ICAP. The city's property tax records for BBL 1005650015 show the actual bill.

For tax year 2026/27, the NYC Department of Finance puts the market value of the Roosevelt Building at $136.8 million ($8.74 million of it land) and its assessed value at $61.6 million, the 45% of market value the city assesses for Class 4 property. The city's market value rose 2% from 2022/23 ($133.8 million) to 2026/27.

Owners registered 6 storefronts at the Roosevelt Building for December 31, 2025, the newest annual filing the city has published, and none stood 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 849 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.