Clinton Manor South

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8-story modernist residential building completed in 1981. Designed by Alberico Pompa, it is the south building in a 2-building complex, with a courtyard separating the slightly less long but otherwise identical north building on 51st Street. They are clad in red brick, with the south building spanning a total of 25 bays. The main entrance in the left bay of a 3-bay center section of the ground floor that is clad in beige brick. It has glass-and-metal double-doors, with double-windows in the two bays to the east. A red-painted concrete canopy with a series of arches along the underside covers the ground floor at this section. Above, the center bay has a double-window on the upper floors. To the east there is another double-window, two single-windows, two more double-windows, a single-window, two more double-windows, a single-window, a double-window, a final single-window, and a double-window end bay. To the west there are two single-windows, two double-windows, a single-window, two double-windows, a single-window, two double-windows, a final single-window, and a double-window end bay.

The windows all have red metal framing and air-conditioning vents below them. Landscaping is enclosed by black iron fencing to either side of the center section.

The east elevation has double-window end bays, with two bays of single-windows in the middle, and smaller bathroom windows between them and the end bays. The west elevation, above the adjoining 1-story building, has two double-windows and two single-windows. Together, the two buildings contain 235 apartment units.