This large and attractive, 12-story apartment building was erected in 1955 and was converted to a condop in 1990. It has 494 apartments.

This pale orange-brick building has a very lush sidewalk landscaping, four light stanchions, a nice, two-step-up lobby, a doorman, a garage, discrete air-conditioners and a health club.

It is across the street from the "First Avenue Estate" of the City and Suburban Homes Company, a full-block complex of six-story, walk-up, beige-brick residential buildings erected starting in 1901 and designed by James E. Ware as "working class" housing by the company that also built a similar complex on the block bounded by York Avenue and the FDR Drive between 78th and 79th Streets that was designated a landmark in the face of redevelopment.

This mid-block building is across the avenue from Rockefeller University and there is considerable traffic on the avenue because of a nearby uptown entrance to the FDR Drive.

In the late 1990s, this neighborhood began to witness a considerable upgrading with the long-delayed opening of a very large supermarket and a large, elegant restaurant, Gustavino's, in the vaults beneath the Queensborough Bridge two blocks south of this building. The block just to the north of the bridge on the east side of First Avenue had been the proposed site of a major twin-towered luxury apartment complex by the Glick Organization, but only the western half was subsequently built by a different developer with different designs and opened by Bridgetower Place in 2001.

There is a handsome seven-theater cineplex at First Avenue and 62nd Street and there are many restaurants along First Avenue.

There are several small parks nearby to the south on York Avenue.

This area is not convenient to public transportation.