The building, which is on the northeast corner at the Avenue of the Americas across from the Jefferson Market Courthouse Tower Library, has an entrance to the PATH subway on the side-street just to the west of its canopied entrance.

The building is a cooperative with 120 apartments and is also known as 422-430 Sixth Avenue. It was erected in 1957 and converted to a cooperative in 1985. Its top floor has some corner windows.

The building s retail space is occupied by Citarella and was formerly occupied by Balducci’s, which had moved across the avenue from its open-air stand on Eighth Street.

The building is out of context with the architectural ambiance of West 9th Street, West 10th Street, West 11th Street and West 12th Street between Fifth Avenue and the Avenue of the Americas, which are widely regarded as the most elegant and beautiful streets in Greenwich Village in the Lower Fifth Avenue area even though none of those blocks is perfect.

The building has a doorman, consistent fenestration, a garage and protruding air-conditioners.

There is westbound bus service on 9th Street and eastbound bus service on Eighth Street, which in 2008 began to lose some of its many shoe stores. Eighth Street used to be famous for its art movie house and a bookstore and a Chinese restaurant all of which no longer exist.