856 Avenue of the Americas

856 Avenue of the Americas has about 188,000 square feet of floor area in total, including 167,000 square feet of office and 21,000 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 1900 as the year built. The building is 16 floors tall.

City records list 856-862 Avenue of the Americas, 862 Avenue of the Americas (rear), 1231-1239 Broadway and 39-67 West 30th Street on the same tax lot (BBL 1008320001) as 856 Avenue of the Americas. A space listed on Leasemark at any of these addresses shows up on this page.

856 Avenue of the Americas is in ZIP code 10001, according to the city's tax lot records (NYC PLUTO 26v2) and the Department of Finance's assessment roll. The full mailing address is 856 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10001, in Midtown South.

The lot is in the M1-8A/R12 zoning district. PLUTO lists a built floor area ratio (FAR) of 8.53 and a maximum commercial FAR of 12 for this lot.

The closest subway station to 856 Avenue of the Americas is 28 St (the R and W trains), about 650 feet away in a straight line, roughly 2 minutes on foot. Also nearby: 34 St-Herald Sq (the B, D, F, M, N, Q, R and W trains), 3 min walk; 28 St (the 1 train), 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 1239 OPERATING LLC as the owner of record of 856 Avenue of the Americas (BBL 1008320001). 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.

856 Avenue of the Americas'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 70.3 kBtu per square foot, about the same as the national median of 70.9 for a similar property. Its greenhouse gas emissions were about 1,258 metric tons of CO2e (6.26 kg per square foot).

At its 2024 energy use, 856 Avenue of the Americas comes to about 1,107 metric tons of CO2e a year under Local Law 97's coefficients, against a limit of 1,525 tons for 2024 to 2029 (73% of the limit), so it would owe no penalty. From 2030 the limit drops to 541 tons and the same energy use counts as about 897 tons, about 356 tons over, or an estimated $95,000 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 3 jobs at 856 Avenue of the Americas. In the last two years, interior work was permitted on 2 floors (floors 1 and 3 and the cellar). The newest build-out, on floor 3, was first permitted in August 2026 (construction, plumbing; filed cost estimate $413,000). These are the Department of Buildings' DOB NOW work permits for tax lot 1008320001. 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 $19.5 million for 856 Avenue of the Americas. At the Class 4 rate of 10.848% (tax year 2025/26, the latest rate the Department of Finance lists), that is about $2.12 million a year, roughly $11.27 per square foot of floor area, before abatements such as ICAP. The city's property tax records for BBL 1008320001 show the actual bill.

For tax year 2026/27, the NYC Department of Finance puts the market value of 856 Avenue of the Americas at $43.8 million ($16.5 million of it land) and its assessed value at $19.7 million, the 45% of market value the city assesses for Class 4 property. The city's market value fell 1% from 2022/23 ($44.1 million) to 2026/27.

Owners registered 20 storefronts at 856 Avenue of the Americas for December 31, 2025, the newest annual filing the city has published, and 4 of them stood vacant that day. At least one storefront here has been reported vacant at the end of every year since 2019. These are the owners' filings with the Department of Finance under Local Law 157, so a storefront vacant on December 31, 2025 may have been leased since. Owners and brokers can list a storefront on Leasemark for free.

No space at 856 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.