Restaurant space for lease in Chinatown

Pricing depends on building class, floor, condition and lease length. Post a requirement with your budget and Leasemark will match you with spaces that fit it as they are listed.

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New York City's PLUTO tax lot data (26v2) records about 2.1 million square feet of retail floor area across 633 properties in the part of Chinatown Leasemark covers. The largest by that measure is 88 East Broadway, at about 51,000 square feet. That is the existing building stock, not space currently for lease.

The NYC Health Department had 307 restaurants and other food service places with an inspection on file in the part of Chinatown Leasemark covers as of October 2026, and 43 more had applied for a permit and were waiting for their first inspection. The most common kinds are Chinese (128), coffee and tea (42) and bakery and desserts (22). The streets with the most are Mott Street (53), Bowery (32) and Mulberry Street (30).

50 food service places in the part of Chinatown Leasemark covers had their first pre-permit health inspection in the 12 months to October 2, 2026, 16% of the 307 open there. Counts are food service permits in an active status: restaurants, cafes, bakeries, bars that serve food and similar places. A new permit is either a new restaurant or a new operator taking over an existing one. Places that opened and closed again within the year are not counted.

The New York State Liquor Authority listed 57 active full liquor licenses and 57 beer and wine licenses for drinking on site in the part of Chinatown Leasemark covers as of October 2, 2026. 18 more applications for on-site licenses were waiting for a decision, 8 of them for full liquor.

New York's 500-foot rule (Alcoholic Beverage Control Law, section 64) bars a new full liquor license for on-site drinking within 500 feet of three or more places that already hold one, unless the State Liquor Authority finds at a hearing that it is in the public interest. In the part of Chinatown Leasemark covers, 54 of the 57 places with a full liquor license (95%) have three or more others within 500 feet, so almost any new full liquor license here would need that hearing. A beer and wine license is not subject to the rule and does not count toward it. Distances here are between map points, so check the exact address before you sign a lease.

Owners registered 829 ground- and second-floor storefronts in the part of Chinatown Leasemark covers for the end of 2024, and 72 of them (8.7%) stood vacant on December 31, 2024, against 8.7% citywide and 10.9% here a year earlier. The most storefronts are on Mott Street (89) and Bowery (85). A vacant storefront is not always on the market: some are being renovated, held empty or already leased to a tenant who has not moved in.

Seven subway stations sit within about 0.5 mi of Chinatown's commercial core, served by the 4, 5, 6, B, D, F, J, M, N, Q, R, W and Z trains. The closest is Grand St (B D), roughly 4 minutes on foot; then Canal St (6 J N Q R W Z), Bowery (J Z), East Broadway (F), Chambers St (J Z 4 5 6), Spring St (6) and Delancey St-Essex St (F J M Z). Walking times are straight-line estimates from MTA station data.

Yes, for larger leases. Chinatown is in Manhattan below 96th Street, where the city's Commercial Rent Tax applies. A tenant owes it only when base rent for the space is $250,000 a year or more. The tax is 6% of base rent after a 35% reduction, so 3.9% of rent, with a sliding credit between $250,000 and $300,000, and the Small Business Tax Credit wipes it out for businesses with total income of $5 million or less and base rent under $500,000.

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Yes. Posting a space or a requirement is free. Contact details are only shared when both sides accept an intro.