{"id":171424,"date":"2026-03-22T19:11:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T19:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/171424\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T19:11:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T19:11:35","slug":"midtowns-42-below-retail-occupancy-rising-faster-than-rest-of-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/171424\/","title":{"rendered":"Midtown&#8217;s &#8217;42 Below&#8217; retail occupancy rising faster than rest of Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/21\/business\/prime-chunk-of-midtown-becoming-fun-locale\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">colorful district we called \u201c42 Below\u201d <\/a>has seen retail occupancy grow 65% faster than Manhattan overall, according to New York Real Estate Journal.<\/p>\n<p>The website reported new findings by Live XYZ, a mapping and analytics firm which tracks more than 160,000 storefronts across the city. Its survey found that storefront vacancy in the district roughly bounded by Sixth and Eighth avenues and by West 30th and West 42nd streets fell by 19% over the past two years.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38860343\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/mixue-coffee-chain-koreatown-1271-121477621.jpg\" alt=\"A Mixue coffee shop on Broadway in Koreatown, New York, with a long line of customers outside.\" class=\"wp-image-38860343\"  \/>Storefront vacancy in the \u201942 Below\u2019 district is roughly bounded by Sixth and Eighth avenues and by West 30th and West 42nd streets. stefano Giovannini for NY Post<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38860347\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/manhattan-nyc-buildings-korean-town-124208488.jpg\" alt=\"Street view of multiple stacked signs for businesses in Koreatown, New York City, including &quot;The Maze Bar &amp; Eatery,&quot; &quot;The Kunjip Korean Restaurant,&quot; and &quot;Space Billiards.&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-38860347\"  \/>The area below Times Square has become a \u2018more people-friendly environment.\u2019  Andriy Blokhin \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n<p>Among imminent new food arrivals: Sora, a complex of eight Japanese and Chinese concepts in 20,000 square feet on West 37th Street, and Kaza, a Japanese place on West 39th.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe strongest momentum in 42BELOW is in restaurants,\u201d NYREJ noted.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, fitness and personal care accounted for the second-largest growth category in the area, which grew from 22 to 33 storefronts.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re pleased that our \u201c42 Below\u201d coinage had legs. We first used it in <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/21\/business\/prime-chunk-of-midtown-becoming-fun-locale\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a story last December<\/a> about growing energy in the area below Times Square, a \u201cmore people-friendly environment\u201d than in the past \u201cwith myriad shopping, lodging, dining and entertainment options.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The colorful district we called \u201c42 Below\u201d has seen retail occupancy grow 65% faster than Manhattan overall, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[288,1489,75,84,83,360,9,24,63,3274,5943],"class_list":["post-171424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-business","tag-commercial-real-estate","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-midtown","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-realty-check","tag-retail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}