The seventeenth floor delivers a rare full-floor opportunity built around a dramatic former event venue, combining expansive entertaining areas with the infrastructure needed for a distinctive office headquarters, showroom, hospitality concept, or creative workplace. The floor is move-in ready in its present condition, with approximately thirteen-foot ceilings, hardwood flooring, substantial column spacing, decorative architectural details, and exceptional daylight from oversized windows wrapping the corner. The leasing materials specifically identify the premises as a built-out event space with kitchen and refrigeration infrastructure, oversized windows, a skylight, and complete control of the floor. 80 Fifth J3K 07 26

Entering the main public portion of the premises brings you into a broad reception and gathering area that opens directly into the principal event hall. This is the visual centerpiece of the floor: an unusually large open room framed by substantial square columns, ceiling beams, warm wood floors, and a long succession of oversized arched windows. Because the windows continue around the corner, the room receives light from multiple directions and provides long urban views rather than the enclosed feeling of a conventional office floor. A skylight adds another source of daylight deeper within the premises. The mostly unobstructed floor area could remain an event hall or be converted into an open workspace, presentation area, collaborative studio, gallery, training center, or dense workstation environment without sacrificing the character of the room.

A substantial built-in wood bar anchors another portion of the entertaining area. Its long service counter, back bar, shelving, refrigeration and beverage-service infrastructure create a ready-made hospitality component that would be difficult and expensive to reproduce in a standard office installation. Behind the public-facing rooms is a genuine commercial support zone rather than a token office pantry. The back-of-house sequence includes a full kitchen with stainless-steel preparation and cooking equipment, refrigeration, shelving and washing areas, along with service circulation and a dedicated freight elevator for deliveries. A separate coat-check area allows guests or employees to enter without pushing storage into the main rooms.

The floor plan also incorporates multiple enclosed support rooms, storage areas and restrooms around the perimeter of the principal hall. 80 Fifth J3K 07 26 These can support management offices, production functions, staging, supplies or additional private rooms depending on the incoming tenant’s program. The result is an unusually versatile private floor that combines impressive front-of-house space with serious back-of-house functionality, making it particularly well suited to a corporate headquarters that entertains frequently, an event operator, creative agency, showroom, membership concept or hospitality-driven business seeking a memorable environment rather than a formulaic office.

Notes: Built-Out Event Space on the 17th Floor measuring 8,000 Rentable Square Feet. Landlord will perform work to upgrade space. Landmark corner location at 14th Street and Fifth Avenue.