Almost the twin of the Sutton Manor apartment building just to the west at 430 East 56th Street, this attractive building has a stepped, angled fa??ade that creates many corner windows. It has the same number of floors and apartments, 12 and 159, respectively, as the other building, but was built 18 years earlier in 1949 and also has a beige- rather red-brick fa??ade.

Its entrance is also much more impressive than the other building's. The lobby has broad window areas so that the doorman can observe what is happening on the street and the entrance also has a very handsome marble screen beneath its curved stainless steel marquee adjacent to the wrought-iron gates that lead to the building's rather extensive private gardens. The other building does have many apartments with large bay windows that are not present on this building and the other building also is home to the Town Tennis Club whose tennis court is on 55th Street and which is overlooked by the back of this building.

It has nice sidewalk landscaping, a pleasant, step-down lobby, and a doorman, some terraces and consistent fenestration. It permits protruding air-conditioners and has no health club, no garage and no roof deck.

This Sutton Place area has many restaurants and some dramatic views either of the waterfront or the midtown skyline. There is very good cross-town bus service on 57th Street, but subways are not close.

Carter B. Horsley