Manhattan Skyline Management Corp. has finalized a new long-term retail lease with tea and pastry concept Teapulse for a storefront at 1375B Sixth Ave. in Midtown Manhattan’s Plaza District. The deal will bring Teapulse to its eighth location across Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens, extending the brand’s presence across multiple boroughs.
The new shop is scheduled to open next month in an 840-square-foot, street-level space at the base of Claridge’s, Manhattan Skyline’s pre-war luxury rental apartment building. The retail unit provides 12 feet of frontage along Sixth Avenue between West 55th and West 56th streets, positioning the tenant to serve residents of the building as well as pedestrians moving through this Plaza District corridor.
Located within one of Midtown Manhattan’s most established districts, the Claridge’s retail frontage offers direct visibility on a high-traffic avenue that connects office users, neighborhood residents and visitors. The space is configured for ground-floor retail, allowing Teapulse to present its tea and pastry offerings directly to passersby and to integrate into the daily routines of building residents and nearby workers.
Joshua Roth, senior vice president of retail at Manhattan Skyline, noted that Teapulse will provide an additional refreshment option for those living at Claridge’s as well as for people working in or visiting the surrounding Plaza District. He highlighted that the shop’s location on Sixth Avenue makes it convenient for quick workday breaks or for stops on the way to nearby destinations such as Central Park.
Roth represented Manhattan Skyline in the lease transaction. Teapulse was represented by Allen Wang of Foundation CRE, who was with Project Queens at the time the lease was signed. The dual representation reflects an arranged agreement between landlord and tenant that brings a new food-and-beverage user into a long-standing residential property in Midtown Manhattan.
With this signing, Teapulse adds another storefront to its growing network across Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens, reinforcing its commitment to neighborhood-scale retail locations. For Manhattan Skyline, the lease fills street-level space at Claridge’s with an operator whose offering is aligned with the daily needs of residents and the flow of workers and visitors through the Plaza District.
The transaction underscores the continued role of smaller-format food-and-beverage tenants as a component of mixed-use assets in dense urban neighborhoods, particularly where residential and daytime populations overlap. As this new store prepares to open, the Claridge’s retail frontage will transition to an activated ground-floor use that caters to both building occupants and the broader Midtown Manhattan community.
