Manhattan Plaza Apartments II

 high-rise, apartment building, 1977_construction

428-foot, 46-story residential building completed in 1977. Designed by David Todd & Associates, it is the western of the two towers in the complex. The tower, clad in rust-red brick with grey exposed floorplates, wraps around a 1-story retail base at the southwest corner. There is a roof deck heavily planted with trees and shrubs on the 1-story base. The northwest corner of the lot has an entrance plaza, with two rounded glass canopies extending out from the entry doors to 43rd Street and 10th Avenue. Besides the Manhattan Plaza Health Club and The Food Emporium, the ground floor is occupied by a Panaqua Diving, a Chase Bank branch.

The facades are lined with bays of various windows, some paired, mostly linearly aligned, although at some floors there are wider spaces. There are angled windows at the intersections of the various wings. Numerous columns of projecting grey concrete balconies also line the facades, beginning at the 9th floor, and skipping the 16th floor. Although the balconies in each column are of matching sizes, there are variations in the grey metal railings - with different alignments of the solid metal panels and metal bars. The balconies end at the top 15 floors, where the facades project out to the edges of the balcony railings below.