The Lay Of The Land
Flatiron was the city's department-store district a century ago, and the buildings along Fifth and Sixth Avenues and Broadway still carry that scale: ornate limestone and terra-cotta facades, ground floors built for display windows, and upper floors with the depth of a warehouse. Madison Square Park sits at the north end with its lawns, the Shake Shack line and views of the Flatiron Building, the Metropolitan Life tower and the Empire State Building beyond.
Most apartments here are conversions. Loft buildings on Broadway, Fifth Avenue and the numbered streets between were cut into residences from the 1980s onward, so a typical unit has high ceilings, oversized windows and a floor plan that varies building to building. Purpose-built rental towers went up on Sixth Avenue and around 23rd Street in the 2000s and 2010s, offering doormen and amenity floors where the older stock offers character.
The district is a workplace as much as a home. Technology and media offices fill the upper floors, Eataly and the shops on Fifth Avenue draw weekend crowds, and the restaurants along Broadway and the side streets stay full through the week. Union Square and its greenmarket are a few blocks south; Gramercy Park is east.
Transit runs through the middle of it. The N, R and W stop at 23rd Street on Broadway, the F and M at 23rd on Sixth Avenue, the 6 at 23rd and 28th on Park Avenue South, and the 1 at 18th and 23rd on Seventh. Nearly every line in Manhattan is within two stops.
Market Pulse
What renting in Flatiron looks like right now, from listings active on Sidewalk.
- Studio$4,634/mo
- 1 BR$7,025/mo
- 2 BR$12,126/mo
- 3+ BR$19,500/mo
- Hollow: fewer than 5 listings that month
Asking rents among listings active on Sidewalk, updated November 14.
Nearby restaurants
A taste of where to eat around Flatiron.
- 520 ft away
- Eataly - Flatiron200 5th Ave0.1 mi away
- Upland345 Park Ave S0.2 mi away
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Buildings In Flatiron
29 total- 35XV35 West 15th Street
- 4W4 West 21st Street
- Flatiron 1830 West 18th Street
- Flatiron House39 West 23rd Street
- Gramercy Place280 Park Avenue South
- JADE16 West 19th Street
- LOUIE 1721 West 17th Street
- Lyla63 West 17th Street
- Madison Green5 East 22nd Street
- Madison Square Park Tower45 East 22nd Street
- Ten Madison Square West1107 Broadway
- The Gorham889 Broadway
- The Gramercy Park House34 Gramercy Park East
- The Greenwich Building6 West 20th Street
- The MacIntyre874 Broadway
- The Vanguard Chelsea77 West 24th Street
- 16 West 21st StreetBuilt 2010
- 22 East 18th StreetBuilt 1900
- 37 West 21st Street3 units · Built 1855
- 11 Gramercy Park SouthBuilt 1885
- 48 West 22nd Street5 units · Built 1902
- 40 West 24th Street24 units · Built 1905
- 222 Park Avenue South53 units · Built 1911
- 35 East 20th StreetBuilt 1900
- 21 East 22nd Street7 units · Built 1910
- 260 Park Avenue South108 units · Built 1913
- 7 West 21st Street4 units · Built 1851
- 295 Park Avenue South178 units · Built 1900
- 31 West 16th Street5 units · Built 1925
