Designed by Bond Ryder James, the large complex has 599 condominium apartments and was erected in 1987.

At a critical intersection where Central Park West becomes Frederick Douglass Avenue, the project offers spectacular views of the park and the Upper East Side skyline.

An important anchor gateway to Harlem, it is very close to the Cathedral Church of St. John The Divine, the third largest church in the world, which is a couple of blocks to the west on a bluff overlooking Morningside Park on Cathedral Parkway (which is the west end of 110th Street).

In their superb book, "The A. I. A. Guide to New York City," (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988), Elliot Willensky and Norval White described these buildings as "crisp, but bland," adding "they bow, however, to the circle and consciously make a corner for the park."

Pleasant as they are, they pale in comparison to the Arthur A. Schomburg Plaza complex at the northeast corner of Central Park at Fifth Avenue and 110th Street. That development consists of twin, octagonal, 35-story apartment towers, designed by Gruzen & Partners and Castro-Blanco, Piscioneri & Feder, that were built in 1975 and were among the finest apartment towers erected in the city after World War II and a distinguished gateway to Central Park.