This 21-story cooperative apartment building at 220 West 57th Street was erected in 1962 and is distinguished by its blue-brick facade that has a some angled bay windows.

The mid-block building has 162 apartments and is just to the west of a low-rise public school that will be redeveloped starting in 2009 with a new school beneath a new residential tower by World Wide Holdings.

This building, which is known as Carlton House, has a canopied entrance, doorman, a garage and sidewalk landscaping but no balconies.

It is just to the east of another apartment tower at 212 East 57th Street that was erected in 2007 across the street from the glass-facade of the condo tower erected the same year at 207 East 57th Street.

There is cross-town bus service and this location is convenient to many restaurants and Bloomingdale's where there is a subway station.