This handsome 16-story, mid-block, red-brick apartment building was erected in 1926. It is a cooperative and has 60 units.

This is one of the nicest blocks along 57th Street, although like many in the city it has its inconsistencies such as the "L"-shaped, white-brick apartment building across the street at 411 East 57th Street that 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. 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.

This building has a 2-story, rusticated limestone base, multi-paned windows, sidewalk landscaping, a doorman, and handsome lanterns and arched windows on the first floor. The building permits protruding air-conditioners and has an exposed rooftop watertank, no garage and no health club.

While there is considerable traffic nearby along First Avenue going to the Queensborough Bridge at 59th Street, this is a quiet block in the highly desirable Sutton Place neighborhood. 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