The building has a prime Upper East Side location that is convenient to numerous fashionable restaurants and boutiques. It has a doorman, a two-story rusticated limestone base, sidewalk landscaping, a one-step-up canopied entrance flanked by wall lanterns, decorative arches atop fourth-floor windows, basement storage. It has no balconies, no terraces, no health club and permits protruding air-conditioners. It is a few doors to the west of the elegant Plaza Athen´e Hotel.

It is, of course, only one block from Central Park, and a short walk to the Plaza Office District. Subway stations are a few blocks away and there is cross-town bus service on 65th and 67th Streets. There is considerable traffic and supermarkets are not convenient.