Office Space for 50 People in Flatiron

What the 175 feet per person is buying

The 8,750 is a planning allowance, not a furniture order. Take the loss factor out and a designer draws on roughly 7,000 usable feet, of which fifty workstations and their aisles claim about 3,250.

• Enclosed meeting rooms, close to 900 feet, the reason a floor rated for fifty desks cannot hold fifty desks and a boardroom.
• Five or six phone rooms at roughly 50 feet each, which stop being optional past thirty heads.
• A pantry near 600 feet, reception, storage and an IT closet at another 500, and roughly 1,500 feet of corridor and slack.

Private offices along the window line push past 200 feet a head, so those teams should size closer to 10,000. Shared desks work down toward 141, which is what 137 East 25th Street's rating already says: 59 dense, 47 at the allowance, 37 with offices.

What fifty people cost here, and against the city

Only one of the two matching floors publishes a rent, so $43 is both the median on this page and what 137 East 25th Street asks. At 8,750 square feet that models to $376,250 a year, $31,354 a month, $627 per person per month.

Against $65, the median across our current New York availability, the same footprint runs $568,750 a year and $47,396 a month, so fifty people housed at $43 save $192,500 annually. That reads oddly next to Flatiron's own $72 median, 12% above the city, but the floors large enough for fifty are simply the cheapest ones open this month.

Neither figure is the check. Electricity is billed on top at $2 to $4 per square foot, another $17,500 to $35,000 a year at this size, and taxes arrive through a base-year escalation that compounds. Free rent and an improvement allowance move a five-year cost further than a dollar off the asking rent.

What a floor for fifty has to contain

Every foot quoted here is rentable, carrying its share of the lobby, corridors and mechanical rooms. Usable lands 15-25% below, so 8,750 rentable becomes 6,563 to 7,438 drawable feet, or 131 to 149 per person. Ask for the usable number and a test fit before signing.

Fifty people hold four or five conversations at once on an ordinary Tuesday, and that concurrency sets the room program more than the seat count. Plan one room seating twelve to fourteen, three or four sized for four to six, and a phone room per eight to ten people.

One plate or two is the live question between these listings. 137 East 25th Street keeps the team in a single room; 30 West 21st Street is the entire ninth and tenth floors, so fifty people split about 25 and 25 and inherit two pantries. How the floors connect is the first thing to walk on a tour.

Seventy-five people, and the clauses that get you there

Half again this headcount is 75 people and 13,125 square feet, $564,375 a year at $43 and $945,000 at the Flatiron median. Nothing on our Flatiron book reaches it. The 10,562 at 30 West 21st Street is the largest floor the neighborhood offers today at 60 desks, which is one strong hiring year; 137 East 25th Street is rated 47, so fifty people arrive at its ceiling.

Term length settles that arithmetic. A direct lease on a full floor this size runs five to seven years, because the landlord amortizes free rent and improvement money across the term and will not fund a fit-out on three. A shorter term costs you the allowance.

Buy the flexibility back in the clauses. A right of first offer is worth what the building can deliver, and at 30 West 21st Street that includes the 5,250-foot penthouse we also carry. Settle sublease language in the same round: consent not unreasonably withheld, no recapture right, profit split rather than surrendered.

The two Flatiron floors that fit fifty right now

• 137 East 25th Street, 6th Floor. 8,308 square feet at $43, about $29,770 a month, rated 47 desks. Across fifty people that is 166 rentable feet and $595 a head per month, the lowest cost per person here and the tighter fit.
• 30 West 21st Street, Entire 9th and 10th Floors. 10,562 square feet rated 60 desks, floor plan and photographs on the listing, rent quoted on request. At fifty people that is 211 rentable feet each and ten seats of hiring room.

The cheaper floor is full on move-in day; the larger one splits the company across two levels. Send the hiring plan and we will test fit both.