On-premise license in good standing — the strongest single indicator of an operating hospitality tenant.
72 University PlaceA read on the site & its saturated corridor.
BBL 1•00568•0019 • GROUND-FLOOR RETAIL • GREENWICH VILLAGE, NY 10003 • TRADE AREA ~0.25 MI
A ground-floor retail box on one of the Village's most-walked blocks, wrapped by $176K-median-income households and 50,400 daytime bodies — but sitting inside a restaurant corridor that is already saturated.
The city's own records say the address is almost certainly live: an active liquor license, a recent health inspection, real observed tenants. The only "vacant" signal is a two-year-old vacancy filing that our fusion model overrides. The demand case is unambiguous — the risk is differentiation. Win here with a daily-habit concept, not another full-service dinner room.
Is the address alive?
A graded food-service inspection on record — confirms a physically operating kitchen at the lot.
A biennial DOF vacancy filing — but two years old and contradicted by three fresher live signals.
Who walks past the door.
The block is crowded.
// Chain presence
- SweetgreenFast-casual
- Pret A MangerGrab & go
- The BeanCafé
// Nearby anchors
- Webster HallVenue
- Warehouse WinesRetail
// Corridor source
Overture Maps · JUN 2026 snapshot. Counts are living-business observations within the trade radius, refreshed against the city's monthly places export.
What wins here.
- Premium fast-casual / healthy daily-habitAffluent, educated, dense — repeat lunch & dinner volume without a full-service footprint.
- Specialty café / grab-and-go32K daytime workers + residents; only 78 cafés serving a top-decile-density trade area.
- Differentiated wine / cocktail barA defined point of view beats the 80 undifferentiated bars already on the block.
- Another full-service restaurant337 restaurants already sit within a 5-minute walk — you'd open into a saturated field.
- Low-differentiation concepts"Me-too" formats get lost; without a sharp hook, foot traffic won't convert.
- Destination-dependent formatsThis block rewards daily habit and walk-in — not concepts that need a special-occasion trip.
What it should cost.
SOURCE: REBNY H2 2025 ground-floor asking-rent survey. Comparable corridors bracket the address between Flatiron/Union Square pricing and the West Village premium — expect asks in the $300–440/sf band. Medium confidence: corridor comps, not a lot-specific quote.
Before you sign.
Confirm the storefront is physically vacant
Our verdict is LIKELY OPEN — walk the lot. If it's dark, that's a fresher signal than any file.
Pull the actual asking rent & term
Our $300–440/sf band is a corridor benchmark — get the specific ask, TI, and lease length.
Check the SLA license transferability
An active liquor license is an asset — confirm whether it conveys or must be re-applied.
Time the block: lunch, evening, weekend
Daytime pop is 50,400 — confirm the flow matches your concept's peak hours on the ground.
The system dates what it knows.
Fresh
A recent, high-trust government signal. Fully weighted — this is the system reading the city's live pulse.
Stale
An aged signal that has decayed. It still informs, but fresher live signals override it in the fused verdict.
Medium
A corridor-level benchmark, not a lot-specific fact — directionally trustworthy, but confirm on the ground.
Every figure carries its own evidence date. FWDRE fuses the city's dated government feeds into one honest verdict — three-tier truth, honestly labeled; we date what we know and decay what we don't.
Want this for your address?
Point the intelligence terminal at any NYC storefront. You get the same fused, dated verdict — liveness, trade area, corridor saturation, concept fit, and a rent benchmark — as a decision-grade brief.