This 25-story, brown-brick rental apartment building at 301 West 53rd Street was erected in 1980 and has 11 units per floor.

In 2008 the building underwent a major renovation that included many condo-quality finishes in the kitchens and bathrooms.

An early pioneer in the redevelopment of Eighth Avenue, this building now benefits from substantial and significant development in recent years since the completion of the impressive World Wide Plaza complex a few blocks to the south and the Time Warner Center a few blocks to the north.

The renaissance of Times Square in the mid- and late-1990s greatly reinforced the city's famous theater district in the area.

Meanwhile, the West 57th Street corridor and the Lincoln Center district to the north have become very vibrant and led to considerable new residential development in the West 50s.

There are subway stations and crosstown bus service nearby at 50th and 57th Streets.

This building has a garage, a fitness center, a roof deck, a concierge, storage space, a garden and a bicycle room. The building has discrete air-conditioners and the tower's long frontage facing the avenue is modulated by the center being a bit closer than the ends.

For many years it was known as the Encore apartment building, an appropriate name for one so close to the city's theater district.

The tower, which is known now as The Metro, rises from a one-story base and the building was designed by Liebman & Liebman and Schuman Lichtenstein Claman & Efron.