Park 54

 restaurant, apartment building

166-foot, 15-story modernist cooperative-apartment building completed in 1978. It is clad in orange brick above a ground floor of polished light-brown granite. The main entrance is at the west end, with glass double-doors, sidelights, and transom under a rounded, green canvas awning. To the right are three metal-and-glass storefronts, the western one framed by black granite and topped by a peaked black canvas awning. The middle storefront has a dark-red, sloped awning, and the eastern one has a dark-red, sharply-peaked canvas canopy extending out over the sidewalk.

The upper floors are organized into two halves, each with two bays of windows. At the 2nd floor, each half has two bands of four windows with stone sills and brick lintels. The 3rd floor has an interesting pattern of tall inner windows (incorporating glass door) flanked at the outer sides by shorter window panes aligned with the top, creating a sideways L-shape. Both lower edges have stone sills, and projecting, square, concrete balconies span across the inner parts of the tall windows in both bays, with metal railings. The 4th-5th floors have bays of double-windows, fronted at their lower halves by metal railings. The rest of the facade follows the pattern of a floor with L-shaped window groups and protruding balconies alternating with two floors of double-windows, up to the 14th floor, where there are wide bands of windows like those on the 2nd floor. The top floor is set back, with two cut-out notches in the parapet wall topping the 14th floor.

The side elevations are clad in red brick with no openings. The building contains 64 apartments. The ground floor is occupied by Mike's Bistro.