Office space in Bryant Park.
At a glance
Building stock
A short list of large, well-known buildings: trophy and Class A towers on Sixth Avenue and 42nd Street, and prewar towers along Fifth Avenue and 40th Street. Park-facing floors rarely come to market.
Rent posture
Among the highest rents in Midtown: park-facing Class A floors ask $90 and up, often above $100, with a wider spread in the prewar towers on Fifth Avenue and 40th Street.
Office inventory
5,748,913 SF of office space across 17 office buildings — 16 of them 50,000 SF or larger, averaging a 1931 vintage.
Small (<50k)
1 building, 40,167 SF total, averaging a 1903 vintage.
The floor of the market — single-tenant or partial-floor space.
Mid-Size (50k-150k)
7 buildings, 650,779 SF total, averaging a 1917 vintage.
Room to grow — typically several floors for one tenant.
Large (150k-500k)
4 buildings, 861,238 SF total, averaging a 1948 vintage.
Anchor scale — often most or all of a building.
Trophy (>=500k)
5 buildings, 4,196,729 SF total, averaging a 1938 vintage.
Headquarters scale — the market's largest occupiers.
Source: NYC Department of City Planning, MapPLUTO (fetched July 2026) — counting only true office buildings: 10,000 SF of office or more, office above grade (not a ground-floor office under apartments), purpose-built or converted loft/office-condo stock. Spatially joined to DLS’s 31 mapped submarkets.
Where rents sit
Asking rent, $/SF · No published report breaks out Bryant Park. The figures are for Sixth Avenue and Rockefeller Center: the average is the median across three published market reports, second quarter 2026, which range from $95 to $103. Class A from the one report that publishes it. Request a shortlist for current asking rents around Bryant Park itself.
Questions
What is the office market like in Bryant Park?
Bryant Park is the ring of office towers facing the park and the New York Public Library, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues and 40th and 42nd Streets, leased by law, finance and professional firms. DLS Commercial Real Estate represents tenants here, negotiating park-facing space and terms in a tightly held market.
Does DLS represent tenants in Bryant Park?
Yes. DLS Commercial Real Estate advises office tenants across Bryant Park and Manhattan's other office submarkets — the tenant's interests only, with a fee customarily paid by the landlord.
