It is across the street from the huge Normandie Court apartment apartment complex of slab towers erected by the Milsteins on the full block between 95th and 96th Streets and Third and Second Avenues. It faces the large, lanscaped plaza of the westernmost tower in that complex that for several years was the very tall "wall between the Upper East Side and East Harlem. In recent years, however, the Related Companies have erected two major residential towers on either side of a major mosque designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill on the northwest corner of Third Avenue and 96th Street and numerous other new projects have sprouted in the area, attracted to the charms of the Carnegie Hill neighborhood and easy access at 96th Street to the FDR Drive.

This building was originally planned as a luxury condominium but then was used as a dormitory by New York Hospital.

In 2006, however, the American Development Group, which is headed by Perry Finkelman, and Langsam Property Services, which is headed by Mark Engel, formed a joint venture and bought the property to convert it back to a luxury residential condominium.

Reuben Gross was the architect for the conversion.

The building has a four-step entrance to its plaza where it has a canopied entrance and a very snazzy, angled vestibule. The building has a concierge and private storage units and very attractive angled balconies on its north and south facades.

Mr. Finkelman and Mr. Engel also converted the building at 45 East 30th Street known as Park Avenue lofts and built 123 Baxter Street, which features an automoated parking facility.

This location is convenient to the Lexington Avenue subway station at 96th Street and is close to many private schools.

The building has a distinctive form and sidewalk landscaping.