The Park Ten

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325-foot, 32-story modernist cooperative-apartment building completed in 1969. Designed by Ralph E. Leff, the building is set behind a landscaped entrance with seasonal gardens, a running fountain and a cobblestone circular driveway on 66th Street. It is clad in warm buff-colored brick and its travertine entrance surround of four double-height arches was an attempt to pay homage to the arched design of the Metropolitan Opera House at nearby Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts that had only opened a few years previously. The travertine at the ground floor extends two more bays out to either side, but not to the end bays on the north facade. Recessed behind the travertine arches is elegant round-arched glass infill, with the main entrance in the 2nd arch from the east. It has glass-and-metal double-doors, and concrete benches front the glass in the other bays. An upward angled travertine canopy covers the lower part of the two middle bays. The bays outside the middle four are recessed and have three vertical bands of black stone, with a metal service door incorporated into one one them. At the 2nd floor, the outer edge of these bays has an opening for a double-window. The brick end bays are also recessed, but slightly less so, and have wide single-window openings on every floor, except for the ground floor at the west end bay, which has an entrance for the underground parking garage at the end of a long, straight drive from the sidewalk.

On the upper floors the four center bays have tripartite windows. Beginning at the 4th floor the outer bays of the middle four have projecting concrete balconies with metal railings; the ends of the balconies are angled slightly to a point, and they front sliding glass doors in place of windows. The two bays on either side between the center bays and end bays have a wide, square single-window and a tripartite window. All of the windows have black metal framing and black air-conditioning vents below them. The end bays also have pointed, projecting balconies beginning at the 27th floor.

The south facade is also set back from the street, except for a 1-story extension that runs along 65th Street, except at the west end, where there are two exit bays from the parking garage. There is another garage entrance at the east end of the 1-story extension. The east six bays of the upper floors on the south facade are set much farther back than the four west bays. The middle two of the west bays have very wide single-pane windows, and the outer bays are fronted by projecting, pointed, concrete balconies like those at the center of the north facade. The western four of the east six bays alternate tripartite and wide single-windows, while the 2nd bay from the east is also fronted by balconies. The east end bay has wide single-windows. Above the 27th floor, the two middle bays between the balconies and the west building section reverse, switching tripartite windows for single-windows and vice-versa. The westernmost of the east bays is also set not quite as far back as the others, with a narrow side pane wrapping around the corner.

The east-facing wall of the southern-projecting west wing has a bay of single-windows between two bays of wider single-windows. The east elevation of the north wing has single-windows at its south end, and two bays of single-windows flanked by smaller bathroom windows at the center. An additional bay of single-windows begins to the north at the 27th floor, and the whole pattern changes at the 28th floor. Here the end bays have recessed tripartite windows, and there are three bays of varied-width single-windows in the center, the northern of which is slightly recessed.

The west elevation has a bay of wide single-windows and regular single-windows at the south end. To the north is a projecting section with a bay of wide single-windows, completed the south half of this facade. The north half of the west facade has two bays of wide single-windows closest to the south half, followed by a bay of projecting balconies, a bay of regular single-windows, and a bay of small bathroom windows; both of these northernmost bays end at the 28th floor.

The building was converted to a co-op in 1981, with 274 apartments.