This "L"-shaped building wraps around and looms over a few low-rise buildings on the northeast corner at First Avenue that house a magazine store and a liquor store. As the buildings on the northwest corner on First Avenue are also low-rise, this building has considerably more "light-and-air" than many other similar, medium-size, white-brick apartment buildings in the Midtown East section of Manhattan.

The broad, bland exposure, however, of its "party walls," adjoining the low-rise buildings is not particularly beautiful from across the avenue as they are punctuated by only a few windows.

Its configuration, of course, reflects the popularity of this neighborhood, which is only a block away from a nice park overlooking the East River on Sutton Place and this block is one of the nicest on 57th Street.

This attractive, white-brick apartment building was built in 1959. It is a cooperative and has 112 units.

The 17-story building has a 1-story, polished gray granite base, a pleasant lobby, discrete air-conditioners, a doorman, consistent fenestration, and a canopied entrance. The building has no garage and no health club.

While there is considerable traffic in this neighborhood, it is also very convenient to the midtown office district, shopping and transportation. There is very good cross-town bus service and an excellent supermarket shares some of the vault space beneath the nearby Queensborough Bridge at 59th Street with a large restaurant.

Carter B. Horsley