Lincoln Plaza Tower Apartments (New York City, New York)

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332-foot, 30-story modernist cooperative-apartment building completed in 1973. Designed by Horace Ginsbern & Associates, the tower's form, rising without setbacks, is highlighted by its curved balconies that are extensions of the building's rough-hewn, striated beige concrete façade. The rounded balconies catch the tower in an embrace of spaced-out cylindrical columns.

To the east of the tower is a raised plaza accessed by a staircase at its west end. At the east end is a ramp leading down to the entrance and exit of the underground parking garage. The tower's main entrance is through the center two bays of the 6-bay north facade on 62nd Street. Both bays have sliding glass doors, with a semi-circular metal canopy covering both bays. The other bays have plate-glass windows, between the projecting, rounded, and rough-faced striated piers. A broad band of smooth concrete (covered in the center by the canopy) sets off the upper floors, which have narrower bands of smooth concrete between floors. The ground floor on the west facade along the avenue is set back behind three large, circular, brick planters with small trees. It has six main bays, with a very narrow bay inserted next to the northernmost bay. There is a metal service door at the south end, and a storefront to the north.

On the north facade the upper floors have double-windows in the four middle bays, and triple-windows in the end bays, still recessed between the rounded columns. The end bays have projecting, rounded concrete balconies beginning at the 4th floor and extending to the roof line. The west facade has a rounded, projecting bay of windows and concrete spandrels at the north end, overhanging the ground floor. To the south is a bay of very narrow single-windows, and then a bay of double-windows fronted by rounded balconies (beginning at the 4th floor) slightly overlapping with another rounded, projecting bay of windows. Another double-window bay without balconies separate the two southern bays that repeat the grouping of a rounded balcony bay and a rounded window bay, only reversed with the balconies at the south end.

The east facade overlooking the plaza has a projecting, rounded window bay at the north end, followed by the bay of narrow windows (which are aligned toward the south end of the bay). In the middle are two more projecting, rounded window bays separated by a bay of double-windows. The south end has another narrow window bay and an end bay of double-windows. There are no balconies on this facade, only the three projecting, rounded window bays to continue the round column theme of the tower.

The building contains 158 apartments. The ground floor along the avenue is occupied by BLOCH dance store.