Office space for lease in the Financial District

The Financial District offers large blocks of office at a meaningful discount to Midtown, plus new towers at the World Trade Center. It has the best regional transit access in the city, including PATH to New Jersey.

Office stock
76.9M SF
Office properties
202
Largest office
185 Greenwich Street
Transit
2 3 at Wall St

Building figures are existing stock from NYC PLUTO 26v2 tax lot records, not space on the market. More below.

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NYC Department of Finance filings

Rent collected per square foot: office buildings in Manhattan

In 2024, 1,506 Manhattan office properties filed income statements with the city. Their median gross income was $52.08 per square foot, and the middle half collected between $38.22 and $74.58. The typical property's income was up 1% on 2023. The city publishes these figures by borough, not by neighborhood, so they cover Manhattan as a whole.

Gross income per square foot, 2024

  • Manhattan$52.08Middle half $38.22 to $74.58 · 1,506 filings · this page
  • Brooklyn$31.54Middle half $21.69 to $44.76 · 720 filings
  • Queens$31.30Middle half $21.15 to $42.74 · 669 filings
  • Bronx$31.39Middle half $21.56 to $43.88 · 286 filings
  • Staten Island$26.23Middle half $17.77 to $36.50 · 233 filings

Bar: the middle half of properties. Tick: the median.

Manhattan office buildings

Median gross income
$52.08/SF
Middle half
$38.22 to $74.58
Typical change on 2023
+1%
Citywide median
$39.05/SF
Filings
1,506

Source: NYC Department of Finance, FY 2027 RPIE 2024 Income and Expense Distributions (FY 2027 assessment roll, published January 2026), page 8. Owners of income-producing properties file a Real Property Income and Expense statement each year; gross income is everything a property collected in 2024 per square foot, as filed, with outlier and partial-year filers left out. It includes vacant space, concessions and older leases, so it is not an asking rent.

NYC tax lot records

Office buildings in the Financial District

What already stands here, from the city's own property data. Useful for sizing a search before a single space is listed.

Office space
76.9M SF
Properties with office space
202
All commercial space
91.3M SF
Built before 1940
63%

Largest office buildings

  1. 104 floors · built 2009
  2. 53 floors · built 1973
  3. 45 floors · built 2009
  4. 54 floors · built 1986
  5. 44 floors · built 1987
All 111 large commercial buildings in the Financial District

Age, height and zoning

  • Median year built: 1923.
  • Median height: 10 floors.
  • Most common zoning districts: C5-5 (262), C6-4 (67), C6-2A (51).
  • Historic districts: South Street Seaport Historic District (53 lots), Stone Street Historic District (14 lots), Fraunces Tavern Block Historic District (11 lots).
  • 67 lots are designated city landmarks.

Source: NYC Department of City Planning, PLUTO 26v2, pulled 2026-10-16. Counts cover tax lots with commercial floor area within about 0.4 mi of the Financial District's commercial core, and each lot counts toward one neighborhood only, so boundaries are approximate. Building figures are the city's floor-area estimates, not available space.

MTA station data

Subway stations in the Financial District

Every station within about 0.5 mi of the Financial District's commercial core, closest first. Stations joined by a free transfer count once.

Stations
13
Subway lines
13
Fully accessible
6 of 13
Closest
Wall St, 1 min walk

The 13 stations

  • Wall St1 min walk · Not accessible
  • Bowling Green1 min walk · Accessible station
  • Broad St1 min walk · Not accessible
  • WTC Cortlandt2 min walk · Accessible station
  • Rector St2 min walk · Not accessible
  • Wall St2 min walk · Not accessible
  • Whitehall St-South Ferry3 min walk · Not accessible · connects to South Ferry
  • Rector St3 min walk · Not accessible
  • Cortlandt St4 min walk · Accessible station · connects to Chambers St, World Trade Center, Park Place
  • Fulton St4 min walk · Accessible station
  • Chambers St6 min walk · Accessible station
  • City Hall7 min walk · Not accessible
  • Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall9 min walk · Accessible station · connects to Chambers St

Lines

The 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, A, C, E, J, R, W and Z trains stop within about 0.5 mi of the Financial District's core.

Step-free access

  • Bowling Green (4 5) is fully accessible.
  • WTC Cortlandt (1) is fully accessible.
  • Cortlandt St (R W) is fully accessible.
  • Fulton St (2 3 4 5 A C J Z) is fully accessible.
  • Chambers St (1 2 3) is fully accessible.
  • Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall (4 5 6) is fully accessible.

Source: Metropolitan Transportation Authority, MTA Subway Stations, pulled 2026-10-16. Walking times are straight-line estimates from the nearest point of the Financial District's commercial core (the same area as the building counts), so the street route is longer. Accessibility is the MTA's rating for the named station. PATH, LIRR, Metro-North and ferries are not in this data.

NYC Department of Buildings permits

Office build-outs in the Financial District

In the 12 months to October 2026, the Department of Buildings issued first permits for 349 interior build-outs in 76 of the 106 office buildings Leasemark tracks in the Financial District, with work permitted on 798 floors in all. Their filed cost estimates add up to about $991 million.

Most build-outs, last 12 months

  1. 18 floors with work
  2. 16 floors with work
  3. 25 floors with work
  4. 70 floors with work
  5. 13 floors with work
  6. 20 floors with work
  • 72% of the office buildings tracked here had a build-out, against 63% across Manhattan.

Build-outs by quarter

  • Q1 202581
  • Q2 202581
  • Q3 202581
  • Q4 202578
  • Q1 202671
  • Q2 202698
  • Q3 2026100
  • Q4 2026 to Oct 2217

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Source: NYC Department of Buildings, DOB NOW: Build Approved Permits, pulled 2026-10-24 (permits issued through 2026-10-22). A build-out groups interior jobs (construction, mechanical, plumbing, sprinklers and the like) on the same floors first permitted within 120 days of each other, dated by its first permit. Only the large buildings Leasemark tracks count (35,000 SF and up), not every permit in the neighborhood. Costs are the estimates filed with the jobs. A permit does not say who the work is for.

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Questions about office space in the Financial District

Is there office space for lease in the Financial District right now?

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How much does office space cost in the Financial District?

Leasemark has no asking rents posted here yet, so here are the city's own numbers. Office buildings in Manhattan collected a median $52.08 per square foot in 2024, and the middle half between $38.22 and $74.58, according to the income and expense statements owners file with the NYC Department of Finance (FY 2027 distributions, 1,506 filings). The city publishes these figures by borough, so this is Manhattan as a whole, not the Financial District alone. That is what buildings actually collected, with vacant space, concessions and leases signed years ago in the mix, so it is a baseline rather than a quote: a specific space's price depends on the building's class, floor, condition and the length of the lease.

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How do I find office space in the Financial District that is not publicly listed?

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How much office space is there in the Financial District?

New York City's PLUTO tax lot data (26v2) records about 76.9 million square feet of office floor area across 202 properties in the part of the Financial District Leasemark covers. The largest by that measure is 185 Greenwich Street, at about 7.2 million square feet. That is the existing building stock, not space currently for lease.

What subway lines serve the Financial District?

13 subway stations sit within about 0.5 mi of the Financial District's commercial core, served by the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, A, C, E, J, R, W and Z trains. The closest is Wall St (4 5), roughly 1 minute on foot; then Bowling Green (4 5), Broad St (J Z), WTC Cortlandt (1), Rector St (R W), Wall St (2 3), Whitehall St-South Ferry (R W 1) and 6 more. Walking times are straight-line estimates from MTA station data.

Are offices being built out in the Financial District?

In the 12 months to October 2026, the Department of Buildings issued first permits for 349 interior build-outs in 76 of the 106 office buildings Leasemark tracks in the Financial District, with work permitted on 798 floors in all. Their filed cost estimates add up to about $991 million. The most were at 200 Liberty Street (19 build-outs). A build-out here is interior work on the same floors (construction, mechanical, plumbing, sprinklers and the like) first permitted within 120 days. New interior work usually follows a lease, so it is a rough sign of where tenants are moving in, but a permit does not say who the work is for.

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Do tenants in the Financial District pay the NYC Commercial Rent Tax?

Yes, for larger leases. The Financial District 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. Lower Manhattan has its own rules: stores south of Murray, Frankfort and Dover Streets and premises in the World Trade Center area pay nothing, and some new leases in eligible buildings south of Canal Street get a special reduction.

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Is it free to post on Leasemark?

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