Manhattan Block 857 · Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square
Block between East 27 Street, Madison Avenue, East 28 Street, 5 Avenue and Park Avenue South
Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square · ZIP 10016 · 56 · 105 · Manhattan
This tax block covers 2 separate city blocks. The figures below are for the whole tax block; open one city block for its own.
The city blocks
- City block 1 · 13 lots · East 27 Street, 5 Avenue, East 28 Street, Madison Avenue
- City block 2 · 5 lots · Park Avenue South, East 27 Street, Madison Avenue, East 28 Street
Search this block every lot of Manhattan Block 857 · Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square, by what makes it a deal
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2 lots match Major alteration permit, 12 months
A plan shows each building, its owner and the records behind it.
From BlockLot's nightly deal index (2026-10-15): each lot's public records — DOF's roll and sales, PLUTO's zoning, the owners' , liens, permits and violations. A match is a lot worth a look, not a building for sale. Owners are named as on each building's page.
Map Lot lines: NYC Department of Finance tax map
This block in numbers
- Lots
- 18
- + 162 condominium unit lots
- Lots with a building
- 15
- Building floor area
- 2,248,110 sq ft
- Residential units
- 977
- Other units
- 360
- 21
- 13 filed by owners (LL157, 2024) · 8 from business records
- 7.7%
- Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square 13.5% · Manhattan 11.1%
- of the 13 filed
- Anchors (> 5 locations)
- 6
- Named storefront businesses
- 17
- Sales, last 24 months
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- $487,218,453
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- Lots in a distress band
- ••
- moderate or worse
- New-building, major-alteration & demolition permits, 12 months
- 2
- 190,153 sq ft
- governing FAR × lot area − built; rough; none for public land
- 3
- its owner group, as the property page groups owners
Benchmarks: storefront vacancy only, against the neighbourhood and the borough. The others come with the area statistics derive (phase 3).
Commercial space Storefronts as the owners filed them, and businesses licensed, registered or inspected here, per public records
13 storefronts · 7.7% vacant (2024) · Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square: 13.5% (2024) · Manhattan: 11.1% (2024)
by LL157 year
Storefronts by year6
| Year | Lots filed | Storefronts | Vacant | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 7 | 12 | 1 | 8.3% |
| 2020 | 8 | 13 | 2 | 15.4% |
| 2021 | 6 | 12 | 2 | 16.7% |
| 2022 | 6 | 12 | 1 | 8.3% |
| 2023 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 20.0% |
| 2024 | 6 | 13 | 1 | 7.7% |
2025: only vacancy-only filings so far — the year's census is not filed yet.
Businesses on record 82
18 storefront · 64 office & other · 6 of 17 named storefronts are brands with more than 5 locations in our records
Category mix storefront businesses on record
| Food & drink | 13 |
| Finance | 2 |
| Retail | 2 |
| Grocery | 1 |
Not on this block, though Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square has them: Medical (1,530 in the neighbourhood), Nonprofit (286 in the neighbourhood), Professional office (133 in the neighbourhood), Child care & education (56 in the neighbourhood), Personal services (10 in the neighbourhood).
Pipeline
2 pending liquor-licence applications · 0 pending DCWP premises applications
An application is not a licence: the business may never open here.
Lease expirations reported end dates — not a statement that a lease ends
| Reported expiry | Storefronts |
|---|---|
| Dec 2026 | 1 |
| 2030 | 3 |
| 2031 | 1 |
| 2037 or later | 2 |
Storefront expiries as the owners reported them to DOF under (no tenant names); office leases from DOF's commercial rent abatement records (CEP/CRP). As of 2026-10-16.
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Documents recorded in ACRIS that name a lot here — not a statement that a lease runs today. An individual lessee is never named.
Sales deeds recorded in ACRIS on these lots, the last 10 years; DOF's sale record where ACRIS has none
•• building sales (•• priced) · •• condominium unit sales · •• · median ••/sq ft
| Year | Priced sales | Median $/sq ft |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | •• | •• |
Price ÷ today's floor area (PLUTO), single-lot deeds of a whole building only. The neighbourhood's own trend arrives with the area statistics derive (phase 4); this is the block's own.
one deed, several lots
•• kept to one tax block (an assemblage) · •• across several blocks (a portfolio)
Long holds a prospecting signal
•• lots last sold more than 20 years ago · •• with no deed on record (ACRIS reaches back to 1966; Staten Island's deeds are DOF's)
, last 24 months
•• recorded: •• · •• · •• in all
A mortgage recorded within 90 days after a deed on the same lot is counted as financing that purchase; any other is a refinance — our reading, not ACRIS's. ACRIS files a document against the first lot it names, so a blanket mortgage over several lots counts once. Since 2024-10-16.
around the block the property page's comps engine, seeded with this area's census tract and building classes
| Class family | Peer set | Sales | Median price | Median $/sq ft | Median $/unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| O (7 lots of class O here) | same census tract, 36 months | •• | •• | •• | — |
Each family is compared within its own class letter (a walk-up with walk-ups), on the comps ladder's tract rungs: 18 months, widening to 24 and 36 only when fewer than four sales qualify. Every quality filter applies. Highlighted rows are on this block.
A plan shows each sale, its price, buyer and seller, the lenders and the comparable sales.
Ownership who holds each lot now — the latest deed over a stale roll, the property page's rule
14 owners hold 18 lots · 3 hold more than one (7 lots) · the largest holds 3 (17%)
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| 8 |
: 12 of 14 lots (86%), 4 · city-owned or leased: 0 · : 1 · : 0
An owner group is the property page's: companies and people the identity graph joins, counted in buildings across the city. Individuals are counted here like everyone else; names are shown to signed-in readers, as on the property page. Brokers and agents are a separate domain and never appear.
Liens, distress and legal the property page's distress score and its public sources, lot by lot
•• lots in a distress band (moderate or worse) · •• (HPD, DOB, ECB)
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A plan shows which lots, and why.
Open means what the property page means: an HPD litigation pending, a vacate order not rescinded (FDNY: not dismissed or rescinded), arrears in DOF's latest extract, a federal lien neither released nor lapsed and matched to an owner by name and address. Open violations are counted by the distress score's own rule, never as raw rows. Exemption removals are withheld while their reading is checked, as on the property page.
Development potential zoning and floor area from PLUTO; flood and evacuation zones; street widths
190,153 sq ft of on 7 lots · 1 (13,250 sq ft) · 1 (2 lots, 26,326 sq ft)
= the FAR that governs the building (residential, commercial or community facility, the property page's rule) × lot area − built floor area. None is given for an over-built lot, a mixed-use, special-purpose or split-zoned lot, or public land (parks, airports, utilities, transport, government sites, land owned by the city, state or federal government). Rough: no bonus, inclusionary or transfer rule, no overlay or district-boundary adjustment, no zoning-lot merger. A soft site is built to under 50% of that maximum. An assemblage candidate is a group of lots sharing tax-map edges where each neighbouring pair is under-built or held by one owner group.
| Zoning district | Lots | Lot area, sq ft |
|---|---|---|
| C5-3 | 3 | 83,966 |
| C5-2 | 12 | 83,016 |
: Madison Square North Historic District (8 lots). : X (15).
a wide street (75 ft or more, ZR 12-10) changes the zoning envelope
| Frontage | Lots | Mapped width | Wide street |
|---|---|---|---|
| East 27 Street, 5 Avenue → Madison Avenue | 6 | 60 ft | narrow |
| 5 Avenue, East 27 Street → East 28 Street | 5 | 100 ft | wide |
| East 28 Street, 5 Avenue → Madison Avenue | 4 | 60 ft | narrow |
| Madison Avenue, East 27 Street → East 28 Street | 4 | 75 ft | wide |
| Park Avenue South, East 27 Street → East 28 Street | 4 | 100 ft | wide |
| East 27 Street, Madison Avenue → Park Avenue South | 2 | 60 ft | narrow |
| East 28 Street, Madison Avenue → Park Avenue South | 2 | 60 ft | narrow |
| Madison Avenue, East 27 Street → East 28 Street | 1 | 75 ft | wide |
Our reading of DCP's City Map width along each block face, not a zoning determination.
Construction & permits DOB jobs, certificates of occupancy, after-hours variances, facade inspections
| with a first permit issued | 12 months | 36 months |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0 | |
| 2 | 2 | |
| 0 | 0 |
| Jobs in progress (filed in the last 36 months, not signed off or withdrawn) | Jobs |
|---|---|
| 0 | |
| 3 | |
| 0 | |
| 88 |
: 18 in 12 months, 50 in 36 · : 62 in 12 months (3 running now) · : 0 · on DOB's list: 0
Facade inspections (FISP), latest filing per building: Safe 9 · SWARMP 2 · No Report Filed 2 · Unsafe 1
A DOB job is counted once, in the month its first permit was issued; its kind is the job's own type (BIS NB/A1/DM, DOB NOW New Building/Alteration CO/Full Demolition). Since 2025-10-16 (12 months) and 2023-10-16 (36 months).
All lots 18
A plan shows each lot: its address, owner, last sale, storefronts and distress band.
Sources: NYC Department of Finance (tax map, assessment roll, , CEP/CRP), ACRIS, DOB, DCWP, SLA, DOHMH and the other registries named on /sources; street keys from DCP's Geosupport; brands from OpenStreetMap's name-suggestion-index. As of 2026-10-16.