This pleasant, mid-rise, red-brick, rental apartment building overlooks Foley Square, home to many of the city’s most important courthouses.

Erected in 2003 by Forest City Ratner, it contains 330 apartments and was designed by Costas Kondylis.

Its lower two floors and the top two floors of its base and of its tower are light-colored.

The building is convenient to City Hall, the Financial District, Chinatown and SoHo and public transportation and it is not far from Ground Zero.

Forest City Ratner is the developer also of 8 Spruce Street, a very tall rental apartment tower designed by Frank O. Gehry one block east of City Hall Park.

This building has a wood and onyx lobby with a vaulted ceiling, natural light in all corridors, a concierge, a fitness center, a residents’ lounge, floor-to-ceiling windows, granite kitchen islands and countertops, breakfast bars, and baths have tri-view medicine cabinets.

All apartments are fully sprinklered and have individual climate control in living rooms and bedrooms. Ceilings range up to 11 feet and there are large terraces on the 3rd and 15th floors. Pets are allowed.

This site once overlooked one of the most controversial public sculptures in the United States, an undulated, tall wall of rust-looking steel by Richard Serra that bisected the ample plaza at the rear of the Federal office building overlooking Foley Square.

Entitled "Tilted Arc," the 120-foot-long curved and hulking steel slab was installed in 1981 and it took eight years of controversy and legal dispute to remove it. Critics charged that it bisected the plaza and interfered with pedestrian traffic and did not leave sufficient space for landscaping and seating areas.

This building, in turn, presents a rather rosy composition that is attractive even though it is out of context with the mostly limestone facades of its surroundings.