It was built in 2001 by Millennium Partners, a developer who was very active in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts neighborhood. Millennium Partners had also worked with the Ritz-Carlton chain to convert the former St. Moritz Hotel on the southeast corner of Central Park South and the Avenue of the Americas to a Ritz-Carlton Hotel with 12 condominium apartments on the top floors.

This tower, which is also known as Millennium Point and 25 Battery Park Place, was designed by Gary Edward Handel + Associates and Polshek Partnership Architects LLP.

The building, which has a large, angled roof-top element, has a curved base and many corner windows to take advantage of its spectacular vistas of the Statue of Liberty and the Lower Manhattan skyline.

Its apartments have room service, valet parking, conference and business facilities, a spa and a fitness center on the 14th floor sundeck as well as a major restaurant in the building.

Public transportation is not too convenient though there is a subway station a few blocks to the east at Bowling Green.

The World Financial Center in the center of Battery Park City is several blocks to the north with a major retail and restaurant center and bridges over West Street.