104 West 27th Street: Office Space for Lease

104 West 27th Street is an office building in Chelsea, Manhattan, with 1 space currently available through Nomad Group at $59 per square foot per year, at 7,047 square feet. Nomad represents tenants only and has delivered 300+ office buildouts across New York.

Updated 2026-09-30 · Chelsea · 1 available · Nomad Group

Building104 West 27th Street

NeighborhoodChelsea

Asking rent$59 / sq ft

Floor size7,047 sq ft · about 40 desks

ConditionHardwood floors, exposed ceiling, light on four sides

TransitA/C/E, 1, F/M at 14th and 23rd

Worth knowing

## The building 104 West 27th sits in the middle of Chelsea's loft corridor, the run of garment-era buildings between Sixth and Seventh Avenues that became the neighborhood's default office stock after the gallery decades. These are side-street buildings rather than avenue towers, which is most of their appeal: quieter entrances, smaller tenant rosters, and a lobby you share with a handful of companies rather than a hundred. ## What a penthouse floor means here In this stock, the top floor is a different product from the ones below it. Light arrives from more directions, the ceiling is usually the building's highest, and skylights or roof access often come with it. Exposed brick and hardwood survive on these floors because nobody covered them during the office conversions of the 1990s. For a company that wants its space to do some of the recruiting, the top of a Chelsea loft building is one of the few places in Manhattan where a lease signs on the strength of the room itself. ## Who this floor suits A plate this size lands a team of roughly forty comfortably, with real conference rooms and a pantry rather than a corner with a kettle. It is the classic Chelsea size band: too large for a boutique suite, too characterful for a tower plate. Design studios, engineering teams and media companies take these floors because the layout tolerates open work and closed rooms in the same footprint without a fight. ## Practical notes for a tour Loft floors of this era carry columns; ask for the column grid before you plan seating, because a test fit will tell you in an afternoon what a floor plan argues about for weeks. Check the freight elevator schedule if you expect a buildout, since side-street buildings run tighter loading windows than avenue towers. Ask what the after-hours HVAC rate is if your team works late. And ask how long the landlord took to approve the last tenant's drawings, in this corridor the answers vary building by building, and it is the single best predictor of how fast you'll be working in the space. ## The neighborhood case Chelsea's argument is depth. Between Sixth and Eighth, from the low 20s to 30th, there is more full-floor loft inventory than any comparable Manhattan submarket, on blocks with the A/C/E and L at Eighth Avenue, the 1 at Seventh, and the F/M and PATH at Sixth. Teams recruiting against other startups rarely lose a candidate over this address.

What is available in the building today

One floor is on our book here, offered whole rather than as a partial suite, so the plan is yours end to end rather than negotiated against a co-tenant's demising line. At 7,047 square feet it is one of the smaller full floors on our Chelsea list, where availability runs 2,937 to 18,668 square feet.

Entire 9th Floor: 7,047 square feet, $59 per square foot per year, about $34,648 a month, roughly 40 desks at 175 square feet per person.

Our listing description cites hardwood floors, an exposed ceiling and natural light on four sides, and notes that ownership will provide a custom built-to-suit opportunity. The built-to-suit matters more than the finishes: it is designed around one company rather than inherited from another. A floor plan and photographs sit on the space page.

Reading the asking rent

Across our Chelsea list asking rents run $44 to $64 per square foot per year with a median of $56, and this floor sits just above it: sort the nine by price and it lands sixth. The median across everything we represent in New York is $72, so 104 West 27th prices about 18% below the city and a touch above its own submarket.

What the same money buys elsewhere on our Chelsea list matters more than either median. Our entire 7th floor at 127 West 26th Street is 9,500 square feet at $50, larger and cheaper per foot, a comparison we would rather explain than gloss over. Above it sit 151 West 26th Street's partial 10th at $64 and 153 West 27th Street's partial 11th at $60. That $50 to $64 range is written by condition and by how much buildout money ownership will fund, and a tour is what settles it.

None of these are taking rents. What a landlord asks and what a lease records diverge through free months, improvement dollars and escalation caps rather than the headline.

The submarket around the building

The transit we publish for Chelsea is A/C/E, 1, F/M at 14th and 23rd, and that is the whole of what we will claim about the commute. Walk it from whichever your team rides, because five minutes against twelve decides how people feel about the office in February.

Chelsea reads on our book as a gallery district turned tech corridor between the High Line and Midtown South, and the teams taking these floors are tech, media and design companies of 17 to 107 people who want a floor of their own rather than a numbered suite inside a tower.

If 7,047 square feet is wrong in either direction, the same walk holds alternatives: 275 Seventh Avenue's entire 24th floor, 18,668 square feet at $63, a 12th floor penthouse at 151 West 26th Street, 17,610 at $56, and a partial 3rd floor at 153 West 27th Street, 2,978 at $44. Flatiron, Meatpacking and Hudson Yards sit adjacent, and we will show floors in all three the same week if Chelsea comes up short.

How to evaluate this floor properly

A tour should settle what a listing cannot. Go at the hour your team actually works and see where light on four sides falls then, because a floor that photographs beautifully at eleven can be a different room at four. Treat the exposed ceiling as a construction condition rather than a finish, since lighting, sprinklers and ductwork run in view, which is half the appeal and half the cost.

That 7,047 figure is rentable, and rentable is a leasing convention rather than a measurement of your floor. Loss factors in New York commonly run 15-25%, which here would leave roughly 5,300 to 6,000 usable square feet and turn $59 rentable into somewhere between about $69 and $79 per usable foot. Ask how the floor was measured, then test it with a fit plan against the published drawing.

Rent is also not occupancy cost: electricity is billed on top and commonly adds $2 to $4 per square foot per year, cleaning may or may not be included, and tax and operating escalations will be there in some form, where base years matter more than percentages.

Term length drives the rest. A landlord funding a custom buildout wants years to amortize it, so five and ten year deals here carry different free rent, allowances and restoration obligations. Expect to negotiate the security amount and its form, cash or letter of credit, a good guy guarantee, and a cap on the escalation.

How Nomad works on this building

We are tenant-side only. We do not represent this building's ownership, which is why the asking rent sits on this page in plain view instead of behind a form, and why our read on whether $59 is right for you can be unflattering to the listing.

Tours we can usually arrange inside the same week, and we will put this floor beside the other six Chelsea options so the comparison is a real one. We have run 300+ office buildouts in New York, so what a built-to-suit costs and how long it takes is our own experience talking.

What office space is available at 104 West 27th Street?

1 space is available: Entire 9th Floor at 7,047 sq ft, $59 per sq ft.

How much does office space at 104 West 27th Street cost?

Asking rents run $59 per square foot per year. The Entire 9th Floor floor, 7,047 sq ft at $59, works out to about $34,648 per month.

Where is 104 West 27th Street?

104 West 27th Street sits in Chelsea, Manhattan. Transit: A/C/E, 1, F/M at 14th and 23rd. Neighbouring submarkets include Flatiron, Meatpacking, Hudson Yards.

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