Restaurant space for lease in Harlem

No restaurant space for lease in Harlem is listed on Leasemark right now. Nearby on Leasemark: retail space for lease at 27 East 61st Street in the Upper East Side (9,470 SF, $159/SF/yr). Post what you need and Leasemark matches you the day a space that fits is listed; your contact details stay private until you accept an intro. Owners and brokers can list a space here for free.

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Leasemark has no asking rents posted here yet, so here are the city's own numbers. Retail buildings in Manhattan collected a median $64.71 per square foot in 2024, and the middle half between $38.35 and $104.91, according to the income and expense statements owners file with the NYC Department of Finance (FY 2027 distributions, 1,328 filings). The city publishes these figures by borough, so this is Manhattan as a whole, not Harlem 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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New York City's PLUTO tax lot data (26v2) records about 5.7 million square feet of retail floor area across 1,344 properties in the part of Harlem Leasemark covers. The largest by that measure is 280 St. Nicholas Avenue, at about 248,000 square feet. That is the existing building stock, not space currently for lease.

The NYC Health Department had 417 restaurants and other food service places with an inspection on file in the part of Harlem Leasemark covers as of October 2026, and 46 more had applied for a permit and were waiting for their first inspection. The most common kinds are American (54), Chinese (34) and coffee and tea (33). The streets with the most are Broadway (59), Amsterdam Avenue (55) and West 125th Street (44).

62 food service places in the part of Harlem Leasemark covers had their first pre-permit health inspection in the 12 months to October 23, 2026, 15% of the 417 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 98 active full liquor licenses and 56 beer and wine licenses for drinking on site in the part of Harlem Leasemark covers as of October 23, 2026. 25 more applications for on-site licenses were waiting for a decision, 16 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 Harlem Leasemark covers, 65 of the 97 places with a full liquor license (67%) have three or more others within 500 feet, so most spaces near the existing bars and restaurants 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 1,682 ground- and second-floor storefronts in the part of Harlem Leasemark covers for the end of 2025, and 202 of them (12.0%) stood vacant on December 31, 2025, against 9.2% citywide and 11.1% here a year earlier. The most storefronts are on Broadway (189) and West 125th Street (126). 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.

Owners of 11 of the 19 large buildings Leasemark tracks in Harlem with registered storefronts reported at least one vacant on December 31, 2025, 8 of them at 3 or more year ends in a row. The most vacant: 280 St. Nicholas Avenue (6 of 14 storefronts), 132 East 126th Street (5 of 7 storefronts) and 105 West 125th Street (4 of 10 storefronts). Each building's page shows its filings by year. 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.

17 subway stations sit within about 0.6 mi of Harlem's commercial core, served by the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, A, B, C and D trains. The closest is 145 St (A B C D), roughly 3 minutes on foot; then 116 St (2 3), 125 St (2 3), 125 St (A B C D), 116 St (B C), 135 St (2 3), Harlem-148 St (3) and 10 more. Walking times are straight-line estimates from MTA station data.

No. Harlem is north of 96th Street, and the city repealed the Commercial Rent Tax for premises north of the center line of 96th Street, so a commercial lease here does not pay it at any rent. Space south of 96th Street does.

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