Every retail space for lease on Leasemark across the 7 Queens neighborhoods we cover (Long Island City, Astoria, Flushing, Jamaica, Maspeth, Ridgewood and Jackson Heights), plus the tenants and buyers looking there right now.
Building figures are existing stock from NYC PLUTO 26v2 tax lot records, not space on the market, summed across the 7 Queens neighborhoods Leasemark covers. By neighborhood below.
On Leasemark No retail space for lease and no requirements posted in Queens yet. Post yours and it is matched the day it goes up.
New retail spaces in Queens are matched to requirements the day they are posted. Post yours and be first in line.
No live requirements in Queens yet. These labeled examples show what tenants post. Owners: list a space and we match it against every new requirement automatically.
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NYC storefront registry
Every ground- and second-floor storefront owners registered in Queens for the end of 2024, and how many stood vacant: where retail and restaurant tenants have the most choice, by street and neighborhood.
Storefront vacancy across New York City
Source: NYC Department of Finance, Storefronts Reported Vacant or Not (Local Law 157), annual filings, pulled 2026-10-01. Owners of buildings with ground- or second-floor storefronts register each one every year with its status on December 31. 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.
NYC tax lot records
Where Queens's existing retail space stands, neighborhood by neighborhood, from the city's own property data, next to the other boroughs. Useful for choosing where to search before a single space is listed.
Source: NYC Department of City Planning, PLUTO 26v2, pulled 2026-09-30. Figures are sums of the 7 Queens neighborhoods Leasemark covers (tax lots with commercial floor area near each neighborhood's commercial core, each lot counted once), not totals for the whole borough. Building figures are the city's floor-area estimates, not available space.
Plain-English guides to square footage, rent and lease terms in New York, and free calculators to run your own numbers.
A New York retail lease covers much more than rent. Here is what percentage rent, escalations, pass-throughs, use clauses and restaurant terms mean for you.
Gross, modified gross or triple net: how NYC leases split taxes, operating costs and electricity, what the asking rent leaves out, and how to compare two spaces fairly.
Walk through a New York commercial lease clause by clause: rent start, escalations, deposit and guaranty, use, alterations, subletting, default and the end of the term.
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.
Post a requirement on Leasemark. Owners and listing brokers see what you need (without your contact details) and can respond with spaces, including ones that are not on the market yet. You choose who gets an intro.
Owners registered 13,321 ground- and second-floor storefronts in Queens with the NYC Department of Finance for the end of 2024, and 866 of them (6.5%) stood vacant on December 31, 2024, against 8.7% citywide and 6.8% in Queens a year earlier. The streets with the most storefronts are Northern Boulevard (713 storefronts, 47 vacant), Queens Boulevard (708 storefronts, 61 vacant) and Roosevelt Avenue (575 storefronts, 19 vacant). 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.
New York City's PLUTO tax lot data (26v2) records about 21 million square feet of retail floor area across 4,738 properties in the 7 Queens neighborhoods Leasemark covers, 14% of the retail space in all 47 covered New York City neighborhoods. That is existing building stock in those neighborhoods, not a total for the whole borough and not space currently for lease.
By floor area in the city's tax lot data: Flushing (about 5 million square feet), Long Island City (about 3.8 million square feet) and Jamaica (about 3.6 million square feet). The largest single retail building on record in Queens is 159-02 Jamaica Avenue in Jamaica, at about 240,000 square feet.
Yes. Posting a space or a requirement is free. Contact details are only shared when both sides accept an intro.