The Helena

 skyscraper, apartment building

400-foot, 37-story modernist residential building completed in 2005. Designed by Fox&Fowle, it is named after the developer's daughter (Helena Durst). It is clad in a curtain wall of blue glass with light-grey aluminum spandrels between floors. The main tower has two projecting wings the frame it on the south side, the west wing rising 7 floors, and the east wing rising to the 10th floor. The ground floor, with a grey granite water table, extends a bit to the west of the east wing and then angled back toward the main tower slab, where the main entrance is located, in the side wall of the west wing, covered by a white metal canopy. Both wings and the ground-floor extension have green roofs with metal railings. The west half of the east wing is also angled back, behind the ground floor. Besides the lobby, the ground floor has some retail spaces, and there is an entrance/exit to the underground parking garage at the west end, framed in rough-faced grey stone.

Both of the wings as well as the main tower slab have blue-green metal panels dividing each floor into bays of tripartite windows. The west end of the tower's south facade angles gently back, and the east end is slightly recessed. The east facade facing the avenue has projecting concrete balconies with glass railings, each angled slightly back to the north, on the top nine floors. The west facade has a row of projecting balconies at the north end from the 14th-37th floors.

On the north facade, the tower rises straight up, almost flush with the wings; the exception is a shallow setback at the east end, with another setback above the 30th floor. The west side of the north facade is slightly recessed like the east side of the south elevation. A high parapet of silver metal and glass screens the rooftop mechanical equipment, sloping up from the east to the west. It drops off at the west end of the roof, where there is a rooftop deck.

The building contains 597 apartment units. The ground floor is occupied by Club Pilates, and Hudson Market.