Leader House Condominiums

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257-foot, 29-story mid-century modern residential building completed in 1973. Designed by Dominick Salvati, the tower was originally set in a spacious plaza; a new 1-story and 2-story base was constructed in 2015. The tower is clad in beige brick.

The new base is mostly one floor, except for at the southeast corner where it rises to two floors. The new base contains commercial space, with building amenities and the lobby on the north side, and terraces on its roof. It is faced in grey cast-stone panels and glass, with a black granite water table. On 93rd Street, the main entrance is in a recessed area splitting the base, near the west end, which is partially covered by a glass-and-metal canopy. To the west is a 1-story section with a band of windows and a glass-and-metal door at the end. Mechanical equipment on top is enclosed by brown cast-stone cladding. At the far west end is a ramp leading down to the underground parking garage. At the back of the entry corridor, the ground floor is clad in cobbled, angular stone in various shades of brown. There are two sets of sliding glass doors, with a grey metal service door on the right and a glass expanse to the left. Forming the east wall of the entry corridor is a small, 2-story section of the base, the west half of which is clad in the same cobbled brown stone, and the east half in grey cast-stone panels. Its west elevation has a glass door at the ground floor, and an open-air opening at the 2nd floor. At the front (north facade) the east half of the 2-story section has a glass-and-metal door. To the left it drops back down to one story, where there is a freight entrance with a garage door. A long band of nine windows follows, with some metal louvers above them. At the far east end is a glass-and-metal storefront section with a white metal service door. The east half of the base here is capped by a metal coping, while the west half is lower and filled by a glass railing. Along the east elevation on the avenue, the base has a section of grey metal paneling at the north end; here there is a garage door, and above is a band of windows. Glass-and-metal commercial storefront sections continue to the south, occupied by Trader Joe's grocery and The Groomery by Petsmart. The north quarter of this elevation of the base has metal coping, while the middle half is lower, with a glass railing. The south end rises to two floors, with more commercial space. The 2nd floor has an abstract arrangement of steel-framed glass windows, continuing along about half of the south facade, with glass railings topping the east halves of both the 2- and 1-story sections. The corner space is occupied by Party City, and the west section by The Manhattan Children's Center. There is another area of brown cast-stone cladding rising above the ground floor of the base, visible set back at the west end.

The tower rising from behind the base is L-shaped. The north facade has a center bay of double-windows and two outer bays of double-windows on both sides; in between these and the center bay are two wider bays of French doors opening onto projecting, rectangular concrete balconies with concrete front walls and metal railings on the sides. Grey concrete floor plates run across the facade to the edges of the end bays; the ends of the facade are plain brick with no openings.

The north wing of the east-facing facade has four bays of double-windows, with concrete floor plate spanning to the edges of the end bays. The east-facing facade of the south wing, set farther back, has a double-window and a wider bay with three narrow panes alternating with two wider panes. The floor plates are also expressed here, spanning the window bays. There is a wide expanse at the south end of plain brick.

The south-facing facade of the east wing has a double-window closest to the junction of the two wings, followed by a wide bay like that on the south wing, and a wide bay of projecting balconies. The south-facing facade of the south wing has two middle bays of double-windows and two end bays of tripartite windows, with expressed floor plates spanning the bays.

The east facade has a double-window bay at the north end, followed by two wide bays and another double-window, again with expressed floor plates spanning the bays.

The building was converted from apartments to condominiums in 2006, with 279 units.