This is a very handsome and robust Italian Renaissance-palazzo style apartment building that is something of a rarity in the city - a mid-block, mid-rise tower flanked by low-rise buildings.

Erected in 1908, this 12-story building was converted to a condominium in 1984 and has only 35 apartments.

Although many buildings on this block are low-rise and have many neighborhood stores, this building looks across the street to one of the city's most attractive, Parisian-style apartment buildings at 112 West 72nd Street.

This central and lively Upper West Side location is convenient to Central Park and to many boutiques and restaurants along Columbus Avenue. It also has very good public transportation and is not far from the bustling Lincoln Center district a few blocks to the south.

In addition to its considerable "light and air," this building is distinguished by a very strong facade treatment that includes angled balconies three floors from the top, large retail windows on the ground floor with broadly curved tops, arched windows on the top floor, a common, continuous wrought-iron balcony on the third floor and a deep bandcourse at the second floor from the top and a nice, though modest cornice.

The building, which has very attractive terra-cotta decoration on the third floor, permits protruding air-conditioners and has no garage, no health club, no sidewalk landscaping and no doorman.