New York 3PL warehouses
New York's warehouse belt runs from Queens and Long Island through North and Central New Jersey to Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley. Meadowlands space asks about 50% more rent than the Lehigh Valley, and the wage floor changes at each state line. Compare vetted facilities by volume and certifications. Partner names stay private until your team chooses who to meet.
Market data updated October 2026 · Reviewed by the 3PL Bridge network and market research team
The New York belt is the right single node for brands whose buyers sit in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, and the right East Coast node for brands already shipping from the West. It is not a one-warehouse answer for a brand with heavy California, Texas or Mountain West demand, because those customers are the far end of the ground map from here.
Ground reach
About 60 million people, 17.6% of the US population, live within a five-hour drive of the Port of New York and New Jersey (Cushman & Wakefield, H1 2026). The Lehigh Valley counts about 30% of US consumers within a day's drive (LVEDC).
Warehouse rent
The NYC outer boroughs ask $27.31/SF NNN, the highest of any US market Cushman & Wakefield tracks, against $17.15 in Northern NJ, $15.35 in Central NJ, $9.02 in the PA I-78/I-81 corridor and $10.40 nationally (Q3 2026).
Labor floor
$17.00/hr in NYC, Long Island and Westchester (upstate $16.00), $15.92/hr in New Jersey ($15.23 for small and seasonal employers), and $7.25/hr in Pennsylvania, all as of January 1, 2026.
Sales tax trigger
NY: $500,000 and more than 100 sales over four quarters. NJ: $100,000 or 200 transactions. PA: $100,000, no transaction test. Inventory in a warehouse in any of the three creates nexus on its own.
Port and drayage
The Port of New York and New Jersey moved 8.9M TEUs in 2025, second in the US for loaded containers, and port rail volume rose 12.4%. Through August 2026, volume was about 6.0M TEUs, down 1.1% (Cushman & Wakefield).
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A building in Queens sits inside the city with the highest industrial rent in the country, while one in Bethlehem sits 90 minutes west of Port Newark on a $7.25 state wage floor. That choice sets drayage miles, the labor pool, the rent your 3PL builds its storage rate on and even which states hold your inventory, before anyone sends you a quote.
Rents are average net asking rates in dollars per square foot per year, using warehouse and distribution rates where the broker reports them, before taxes, insurance and common-area costs; they are what a 3PL pays its landlord, not what a brand pays per pallet.
Six local factors that move a New York, New Jersey or Lehigh Valley fulfillment quote more than the headline rate does.
The Port of New York and New Jersey handled 8.9 million TEUs in 2025, second in the US for loaded containers, and its rail volume rose 12.4%. Volume softened in 2026: August fell 5.5% to about 789,875 TEUs and the year to date was down 1.1% at about 6.0 million (Cushman & Wakefield, Q3 2026). The Bayonne Bridge raise, completed in 2019 for $1.7 billion, lifted clearance from 151 to 215 feet so ships of up to 18,000 TEUs can reach Newark and Elizabeth. ExpressRail serves Elizabeth, Newark, Staten Island and Port Jersey, yet trucks still moved 85% of containers on and off the terminals when the project wrapped, so the dray distance from the terminal to your warehouse is a real line on the bill.
Ask: Which terminals do your clients' containers come out of, and what do you charge in drayage, chassis and per diem from each? Do you pull containers for a Lehigh Valley building directly from Elizabeth, and what does that 90-minute run add?
Sources: Container News, Port of NY-NJ 2025 volumes, Feb 2026; Cushman & Wakefield, New Jersey Industrial MarketBeat Q3 2026 (PDF); Maritime Executive, ExpressRail and Bayonne Bridge completed, June 2019.
FedEx Ground's 850,000-SF hub in Allen Township, next to Northampton in the Lehigh Valley, sorts up to 45,000 packages an hour and opened in September 2018, and its older 340,000-SF Northeast hub sits in Woodbridge, in the heart of the Central Jersey cluster. UPS built an 886,000-SF regional hub on the former Military Ocean Terminal in Bayonne. JFK handled 1.67 million tonnes of cargo in 2024, about 25% of the nation's inbound low-value international e-commerce, and opened a $270 million cargo center in April 2025, while Amazon's planned Newark Liberty air hub fell apart in July 2022. Since January 5, 2025, trucks entering Manhattan at or below 60th Street pay $14.40 to $21.60 at peak, and a federal judge let the tolls continue in March 2026.
Ask: What are your daily pickup times for each carrier, and do you inject at a hub or wait for a local pickup? If you run your own Manhattan deliveries, how do you pass through congestion tolls?
Sources: LVEDC, FedEx Ground Lehigh Valley hub, Nov 2018; STAT Times, JFK cargo center, Apr 2025; Transport Topics, congestion toll ruling, Mar 2026.
On January 1, 2026, New York's minimum rose to $17.00 an hour in New York City, Long Island and Westchester and $16.00 upstate, with CPI-W indexing from 2027. New Jersey's rose to $15.92 ($15.23 for small and seasonal employers), while Pennsylvania stays at the federal $7.25, unchanged since 2009. New Jersey's Temporary Workers' Bill of Rights, fully in effect since August 2023 and upheld by the Third Circuit in July 2024, requires staffing agencies to pay temps the same wages and benefits as comparable direct employees, and it covers about 127,000 temps, mostly in warehouses and factories. New York's Warehouse Worker Protection Act requires sites with 100 or more workers, or employers with 1,000 statewide, to disclose quotas and, since June 1, 2025, to run an injury reduction program.
Ask: What is your starting wage, and what share of your peak staff comes from temp agencies? If you are in New Jersey, how has equal-pay for temps changed your peak labor rate, and in New York, can you show us your written quota disclosure?
Sources: Governor of New York, minimum wage increase, Dec 2025; New Jersey Monitor, temp worker law upheld, July 2024; NY Department of Labor, Warehouse Worker Protection Act.
New York requires remote sellers to register once they pass both $500,000 in sales and more than 100 transactions over the prior four sales tax quarters. New Jersey's trigger is $100,000 in sales or 200 transactions, and bills introduced in January 2026 (S711 and A3419) would drop the transaction count. Pennsylvania uses $100,000 in calendar-year sales with no transaction test. Inventory in a warehouse in any of the three creates nexus regardless of sales, including third-party and marketplace warehouses, so splitting stock between Edison and Bethlehem means filing in both states. Rates differ too: as of January 1, 2026, New York averages 8.54% combined, New Jersey 6.60% and Pennsylvania 6.34% (Tax Foundation). Confirm your position with a tax advisor before you ship inventory in.
Ask: Which state, county and municipality is your building in, and can you report inventory by state monthly? If you run facilities on both sides of the Delaware River, can you keep our stock in one state?
Sources: Numeral, New York economic nexus; Avalara, New Jersey transaction threshold bills, Feb 2026; Pennsylvania Department of Revenue, online retailers.
Superstorm Sandy hit on October 29, 2012, and the Elizabeth container terminals did not take their first ships until November 4, six days later; an auto terminal at Port Newark scrapped 2,773 vehicles and the Port Authority's administration building took three and a half feet of water. The remnants of Ida on September 1, 2021 killed at least 27 people in New Jersey, with more than 200 rescued from Rahway River flooding in Cranford and deaths in Elizabeth. Winter is the routine risk: for the January 25-26, 2026 storm, NJDOT barred commercial vehicles from the full length of I-78, I-80, I-287, I-280 and I-295, while the Turnpike and Garden State Parkway stayed open.
Ask: Is your building in a FEMA flood zone, and how high is the dock above grade? How many days did you lose in January 2026 and after Ida, and what does your contract say about force majeure and storm shutdowns?
Sources: Datamyne, Sandy's toll on the Port of NY-NJ, Nov 2012; ABC7, Ida flooding deaths in New Jersey, Sept 2021; NJDOT, commercial vehicle travel restriction, Jan 2026 (PDF).
The NYC outer boroughs ask $27.31/SF NNN, the highest of any US market, and Northern NJ asks $17.15 against a national $10.40 (Cushman & Wakefield, Q3 2026). The direction has turned, though: New Jersey asking rent fell 4.0% year over year to $16.12/SF even as vacancy dipped 60 basis points to 8.1% on 4.8M SF of Q3 absorption, and outer-borough rents have slid since their Q4 2024 peak. New Jersey has 35 warehouse projects totaling 8.1M SF underway, and renewals rose 76.2% year over year, so more tenants are staying put than moving. The Lehigh Valley, at $11.97/SF for warehouse space, remains the relief valve for brands priced out of the Turnpike.
Ask: When does your building lease expire, and was it signed at peak 2022 to 2024 rents? Will you lock pallet and per-order rates for 24 months, and does our storage rate have an escalator tied to your rent?
Sources: Cushman & Wakefield, US Industrial MarketBeat Q3 2026 (PDF); Cushman & Wakefield, New Jersey Industrial MarketBeat Q3 2026; Cushman & Wakefield, NY Outer Boroughs Industrial Q2 2026.
Yes, if your customers lean Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. About 60 million people, 17.6% of the US, live within a five-hour drive of the Port of New York and New Jersey (Cushman & Wakefield, H1 2026). Brands with heavy California, Texas or Mountain West demand should pair a New York-area node with a western or central one, because those customers sit at the far end of the ground map.
It depends on the state line. In Q3 2026 the NYC outer boroughs asked $27.31/SF NNN, the highest in the US, Northern NJ $17.15, Central NJ $15.35 and the PA I-78/I-81 corridor $9.02 (Cushman & Wakefield). A 3PL turns that rent into per-pallet storage charges, so Lehigh Valley and Central Jersey buildings usually quote cheaper storage than Queens or the Meadowlands.
It depends on how freight arrives and how fast you need to reach the city. The Port / Exit 13 corridor suits container importers who want the shortest dray, the Meadowlands suits late cutoffs into Manhattan, and Central Jersey around Exits 8A to 10 suits high-volume programs at lower rent. The Lehigh Valley suits brands that need large footprints or overflow storage at about $11.97/SF (Cushman & Wakefield, Q3 2026).
Yes, for any delivery that enters Manhattan at or below 60th Street. Since January 5, 2025, trucks pay $14.40 to $21.60 at peak and passenger vehicles $9, and a federal judge allowed the tolls to continue in March 2026. Parcel carriers and couriers price that into their rates, so ask any 3PL running its own city deliveries how it passes the toll through.
Most arrive at Port Newark and the Elizabeth terminals, which handled much of the port's 8.9 million TEUs in 2025, and leave by truck, though port rail volume grew 12.4% that year. The raised Bayonne Bridge has let ships of up to 18,000 TEUs reach those terminals since 2019. A warehouse near Exit 13 shortens the dray, while a Lehigh Valley building sits about 90 minutes west of Port Newark.
Yes. Inventory in a warehouse in any of the three states generally creates nexus by itself, even below the economic thresholds of $500,000 and 100 sales in New York, $100,000 or 200 transactions in New Jersey, and $100,000 in Pennsylvania. Splitting inventory across states means registering in each. Confirm your situation with a tax advisor.
Ask which port terminal your containers come out of and what drayage, chassis and per diem cost from each. Ask for carrier pickup times and whether they inject at a hub. Ask for starting wages, peak temp share and how New Jersey's equal-pay temp law or New York's quota rules apply, how many days they lost in the January 2026 storm, and when their building lease expires.
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