Retail space for lease in Union Square

No retail space for lease in Union Square is listed on Leasemark right now. Nearby on Leasemark: retail space for lease at 201 Avenue A in the East Village (400 SF, $210/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 Union Square 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 2.9 million square feet of retail floor area across 303 properties in the part of Union Square Leasemark covers. The largest by that measure is 44 East 14th Street, at about 263,000 square feet. That is the existing building stock, not space currently for lease.

Owners registered 411 ground- and second-floor storefronts in the part of Union Square Leasemark covers for the end of 2025, and 48 of them (11.7%) stood vacant on December 31, 2025, against 9.2% citywide and 10.6% here a year earlier. The most storefronts are on Fifth Avenue (42) and University Place (34). 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 14 of the 36 large buildings Leasemark tracks in Union Square with registered storefronts reported at least one vacant on December 31, 2025, 2 of them at 3 or more year ends in a row. The most vacant: 17 West 14th Street (2 of 4 storefronts), 797 Broadway (1 of 1 storefronts) and Parish Building, 860 Broadway (1 of 2 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.

Eight subway stations sit within about 0.5 mi of Union Square's commercial core, served by the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, F, L, M, N, Q, R and W trains. The closest is 14 St-Union Sq (4 5 6 L N Q R W), roughly 1 minute on foot; then 14 St (1 2 3 F M L), 3 Av (L), 23 St-Baruch College (6), 23 St (R W), 8 St-NYU (R W), Astor Pl (6) and 1 more. Walking times are straight-line estimates from MTA station data.

Yes, for larger leases. Union Square 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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