Rent/Lease Retail 1968 Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard

1968 Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard was built in 1910 as an Old Law Tenement. That was a common type of walk-up apartment house on Seventh Avenue in the years when Harlem was growing fast. It was last significantly altered in 1992. Several sets of alteration plans were filed for the building in 2015.

The property changed hands on July 28, 2022, in a transaction recorded at $32,000,000. The building has stayed in its original form: five stories, apartments upstairs and a single storefront at street level. It is part of the early-20th-century streetscape that still defines Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard.

In Harlem, Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard is the name for Seventh Avenue. Because of that, the building can also be identified as 1968 Seventh Avenue or 1968 7th Avenue. It may also appear as 1968 Adam C Powell Blvd or 1968 ACP Blvd.

On the city tax map it is Manhattan Block 1924, Lot 33 (BBL 1019240033), ZIP code 10026. It does not have a known building name. Do not confuse it with the Morellino at 1961-1969 Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard, which is a separate property on the opposite side of the avenue.

This is a modest five-story building with a commercial ground floor and apartments above. It does not have the shared amenities of a large office property.

• Stories: 5 (walk-up, no elevator)
• Building area: about 8,747 square feet
• Lot: 25 ft x 100 ft; building footprint about 25 ft x 78 ft
• Use: 9 residential units and 1 commercial unit
• Frontage: on Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard, a wide street

The location is the main draw. The address has a Walk Score of 99 and a Transit Score of 100, and the area is rated very bikeable.

1968 Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard is a small mixed-use walk-up in Central Harlem. It has nine apartments on the upper floors and one commercial unit facing the boulevard. Its storefront tenant is not on public record. Tenants on this part of Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard tend to be neighborhood businesses: food and drink, personal services and local retail serving residents and the steady foot traffic on the avenue.

For a business looking at this address, the ground-floor unit is the only commercial space in the building. It has frontage on a wide, busy avenue in one of Harlem's best-known corridors.

No specific internet provider has been confirmed for 1968 Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard. The building is a small walk-up with one storefront, so a ground-floor tenant would normally arrange its own service. Central Harlem along Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard is a dense, heavily wired residential and commercial area. A business moving into the commercial unit should confirm which wired and fiber options reach this specific building before signing a lease.

The building is on Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard (Seventh Avenue) in Central Harlem, just north of West 116th Street. The boulevard is a wide avenue with landscaped center malls maintained by NYC Parks.

• Subway: The 2 and 3 trains stop at 116th Street on Lenox Avenue, one avenue east. The B and C trains stop at 116th Street on Frederick Douglass Boulevard, one avenue west.
• Bus: The M2 runs along Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard. Crosstown and north-south routes on 116th Street, Lenox Avenue and Frederick Douglass Boulevard are a short walk away.

With a Transit Score of 100, the address has some of the best transit access in the city.