The Westport

 classrooms, apartment building

243-foot, 24-story postmodern residential building completed in 2003. Designed by Costas Kondylis, it is clad in red brick above a brown granite water table. The building has a 7-story base along the avenue (dropping back to two floors, and then one floor to the west along the side streets), followed by four transition floors, and then the narrower tower, situated at the center facing east-west. To maximize the amount of glass used and still have the structure appear as a masonry building, the façade was designed with geometric square patterns of brick and glass to create a distinctive geometry.

The bottom two floor used by nearby John Jay college to extra class rooms. The entrance to the educational space is on 56th Street, near the west end. It has double-doors below a rounded, navy-blue canopy. The rest of the 1-story section at the west end has a double-window, two small metal service doors, and a loading dock. The next two bays to the left have plate-glass tripartite windows at the 1st & 2nd floors, with a set of double exit doors at west bay. A banded roof parapet marks the setback to the tower portion. At the east end the base rises to its full seven floors, with two bays on 56th Street. The 3rd-7th floors are divided into four smaller bays, with nearly-square openings with tripartite windows in dark-grey metal framing. Black metal air-conditioning vents are built into the lower parts of the windows, and there are white stone accents on the piers at every other floor.

The east facade on the avenue is organized into five main sections. The middle one contains the main entrance to the residential units, with glass doors around a revolving door, below a suspended metal-and-glass canopy. The 2nd floor above the entrance has opaque green glass panes in metal framing. Flanking the entrance are narrow windows at the ground and 2nd floors. The other four bays at the ground floor consist of dark-grey metal-and-glass storefronts with show-windows around central glass doors. Narrow panes of tinted glass separate the larger panes from the doorway sections. The 2nd floor has similar tinted panes between the wider main window panes, with dark-grey metal framing and spandrels between the two floors. The first four bays along 55th Street match those on the north facade, minus the exit doors. The 1-story section at the west end has a loading dock with a metal roll-down gate, and an entrance and exit to the underground parking garage. The rest of the base on the east facade has three square bays at the north and south ends, and four bays in the middle. Separating these wings are two 3-bay sections that are recessed; the recessed bays have horizontal bands of white stone above each window group.

Above the 7th floor, the four transitional floors are set back from the base and have nine total bays along the avenue, with a variety of window configurations. The end bays, and the two flanking the middle bay are slightly wider, with the end bay windows wrapping around the corners. The extra-wide middle bay has four narrow panes on either side of the wider center pane. There are no brick piers on the north and south elevations of the transitional floors.

The main tower slab has four bays of tripartite windows on the east and west sides, and four bays of tripartite windows at the east end of the north and south elevations. The rest of the north and south facades have wide bands of glass and metal mullions, with brick spandrels. At the west end, the windows wraps around a short way onto the west facade, which has no openings in the middle and has exposed concrete floor plates. At the west end of the roof is a 3-story, brick-clad housing for mechanical equipment and a large water tank.

The building contains 371 apartment units.