This handsome, red-brick, mid-block building is notable for having many apartments with very high ceilings. It is one of a pair of very similar buildings on the block. The other is 170 East 78th Street, which is just across the street and slightly to the east.

The 10-story building was erected in 1928 and is a cooperative with 39 apartments.

It has a one-story limestone base and a one-and-half-story limestone and gray marble entrance surround topped by two impressive and rather abstract limestone eagles.

Most of the windows retain their original multipaned fenestration. The building has a three-step-down vestibule, a canopied entrance and doorman, and discrete air-conditioners. The base of the building is slightly more elegant than the similar building across the street. This building has no garage, no health club, no sidewalk landscaping and no roof deck.

This is a very attractive and quiet street that is convenient to many restaurants, stores and religious and educational institutions. There is a subway station nearby at 77th Street and Lexington Avenue, where Lenox Hill Hospital is located, and there is very good cross-town bus service on 79th Street.

Although the apartments do not have many rooms, the living rooms are very impressive with their quite tall ceilings.