Built in 1856, it is a condominium and has 157 apartments.

The building has a slightly ramped, canopied entrance with revolving doors as well as a ramped entrance for the disabled. It has nice sidewalk landscaping, a garage, a pleasant lobby with very handsome elevator doors, some terraces, a doorman and protruding air-conditioners. It has no health club and no roof deck.

Its beige-brick facade is in context with two other large mid-block apartment buildings on the same street at 141 and 150 East 56th Street.

This is a bustling area of east midtown as it is not far from Citicorp Center at 53rd Street or the "Lipstick" building at 885 Third Avenue or the concave office tower at 135 East 57th Street and is two blocks south of the full-block development planned by Vornado for 58th to 59th Streets between Lexington and Third Avenues across from Bloomingdale’s. The area abounds in many well-known restaurants such as P. J. Clarke’s, fast-food restaurants such as Wendy’s, and numerous antique and fabric stores. There is excellent public transportation nearby.