This beige-brick, 17-story apartment house at 175 West 93rd Street on the northeast corner of Amsterdam Avenue was designed by Rosario Cardela in 1928 for Anthony A. Paterno. It was converted to a co-operative in 1984.

The building has two deep lightwells on 93rd Street and a one-story stone base with very attractive sidewalk landscaping. One of the lightwells has a large, gated, sunken garden with lavish landscaping and seating.

The building, which is known as Westwind and 681-691 Amsterdam Avenue, has a canopied entrance leading to a large lobby with a beamed ceiling and arched openings.

The building has about 175 co-operative apartments, a bicycle room, a laundry, storage facilities, a 24-hour doorman, windowed kitchens and a live-in superintendent.

It is pet-friendly.

The building is just to the west of the Iglesia Adventista del Septimo Dia that was originally the Nippon Club designed in 1912 by John Van Pelt. There are co-op apartments above the church and the building has a upwardly slanted large cornice that "is extraordinary; it sails overhead with the assurance of Lorenzo de Medici," according to the fifth edition of "The A.I.A. Guide to New York City" by Norval Whie and Elliot Willensky with Fran Leadon.

The same street are many very attractive townhouses that are known as "W.S.U.R.A. brownstones and the south side of the street is dominated by the very impressive St. Joan Junior High School.