In February 2020, Apple signed a lease for office space in Midtown’s 11 Penn Plaza. The company signed a five-year deal to move into the 11th through 14th floors (220,000 square feet) of the Art Deco building owned by Vornado Realty Trust, according to the New York Post.

Less than a year after withdrawing its plans to bring their HQ2 to Long Island City, in Queens, last week, Amazon signed a lease for 335,000 square feet in a building that’s close to the Hudson Yards megaproject. The space, located within SL Green’s 410 Tenth Avenue, will be for more than 1,500 employees of the e-commerce giant.

In 2017, Amazon inked a deal with Brookfield Properties to lease 360,000 square feet at 5 Manhattan West, the retrofit of the old Brutalist building that once housed the New York Daily News. It’s just down the block from SL Green’s 410 Tenth Avenue, where the company recently snapped up office space.

Amazon has operated a $100 million, 850,000-square-foot fulfillment center in Staten Island’s western shore since September 2018. The e-commerce giant’s warehouse is located on the Matrix Global Logistics Park complex, which is situated in a formerly abandoned 676-acre site. There are more than 2,000 full-time employees at the warehouse, who reportedly work alongside robots.

In November, Facebook officially signed a lease at Hudson Yards, confirming rumors from earlier this year. The tech giant confirmed that it will lease more than 1.5 million square feet of office space across 30 floors and three buildings at Hudson Yards: 1.2 million square feet in 50 Hudson Yards; 265,000 square feet in 30 Hudson Yards; and 57,000 square feet in 55 Hudson Yards.

Despite the pandemic, Facebook is betting big on New York with a lease for all the office space in the James A. Farley Building in Midtown Manhattan. The deal’s announcement came as somewhat of a surprise because Facebook, which had expressed interest in the Farley Building for months, has given most of its employees the option of working from home during the pandemic. 

Back in 2010, Google bought the former Port Authority building at 111 Eighth Avenue for $1.9 billion from Taconic Investment Partners; the tech giant has housed its NYC headquarters there ever since. The 2.9-million-square-foot structure occupies a whole block between Eighth and Ninth avenues and 15th and 16th Streets.

A year ago, Google announced that it will create a new 1.7 million square foot campus (“Google Hudson Square”) across three parcels in lower Manhattan, at 315 and 345 Hudson Street, and 550 Washington Street—aka St. John’s Terminal, the development site that has been in limbo for several years.

Back in March 2018, Google bought the Chelsea Market building, located in front of their NYC headquarters, for $2.4 billion. Google had already been leasing offices at the Chelsea Market building for a decade.

Back in May, Google purchased the building at 450 West 15th Street, known as the Milk Building, for $600 million. The move exerted the tech giant’s dominance over that area, as it now leases nearly all the commercial property between West 15th and West 16th streets, from Eighth Avenue to the Hudson River, according to Crain’s.

Netflix already has a presence in the city, with series like Orange Is the New Black, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and, most recently, Russian Doll filming throughout the five boroughs. But the streaming service has typically filmed its series at other sound stages in city, including Silvercup Studios and Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens. Earlier this year, it announced that it will lease 161,000 square feet in Brooklyn to build six new sound stages, which will eventually be capable of holding thousands of jobs.

As part of its larger production hub deal, Netflix will also lease around 100,000 square feet in the Flatiron District. To get Netflix to New York, the Empire State Development Corporation offered $4 million in tax credits via its Excelsior program, which ties that incentive to job creation. Netflix must create 127 promised jobs in its corporate office by 2024 to get the full reimbursement. The new office and production space is expected to bring back about $100 million back to the city.