Designed in Italian-Renaissance-palazzo style by Rosario Candela, one of the foremost architects of residential apartment buildings of his era, it has only 15 apartments. His other Fifth Avenue buildings include 834, 850, 884, 955, 960 and 990. Candela also designed 1 Sutton Place South and several luxury apartment buildings on Park Avenue.

Although its facade is not as finely detailed as some of the avenue s other prestigious pre-war buildings such as 820 and 998, it is one of the city’s premier addresses in part because it is close to many of the city’s most fashionable boutiques and restaurants along Madison Avenue. It is also a bit removed from major tourist attractions such as the Central Park Zoo.

The building has very fine Central Park views, although its location at an entrance to a Central Park transverse road makes for considerable traffic and noise.