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367-foot, 38-story modernist residential building completed in 1976. Designed by Max Urbahn Associates, it was built as a money-maker for the adjoining Park West High School. The building is roughly shaped as two interlocking Ls. The facades are clad in brown-grey concrete with a rough-faced, grooved texture, above a 2-story base of bright tan-painted concrete. The ground floor has metal-and-glass storefronts facing a raised plaza on the avenue, accessed by wide sets of steps. To the north and south the plaza is enclosed by a brown polished granite wall. A 2-story, projecting residential entrance sticks out from the east end of the north-facing facade, set far back from the plaza, with a revolving door and a traditional glass-and-metal door in a 2-story glass surround with aluminum framing; at its corner is a 2-story brown granite pier. The ground floor at the storefronts projects out slightly from the rest of the base. At the south end, there is a tan-painted concrete wall behind the granite wall, with a rounded corner wrapping around to the south facade and enclosing a long ramp.

The upper floors on the east facade have a recessed center bay of four windows (a double-window at the 2nd floor). To the north are two triple-windows flanking a double-window, and to the south is a single-window and three double-windows. They all have aluminum framing. At the 2nd floor (the top of the base), the north and south sides both have a bay of double-windows at their respective north and south ends. Beginning at the 15th floor there are projecting concrete balconies in the middle bay, with metal railings.

The south facade on 50th Street has two bays of double-windows on the right side, and a set-back bay of French doors opening onto projecting balconies that begins at the 9th floor. The west half of the south facade is set much farther back, forming the rear of the north leg of the "L". It has, from right to left, a triple-window, a double-window, a single-window, a 4-window bay (with projecting balconies beginning at the 9th floor, and another single-window, with no openings near the west edge.

The set-back east half of the north facade on 51st Street is a mirror-image of the west half of the south facade. The west half extends out closer to the street and is similar to it's corresponding south facade, but with a single-window bay in place of one of the double-windows. Rising from the painted concrete base is a concrete wall of the same color and texture as the main facades, enclosing a stairway along the north facade that leads up to a deck above the 1-story parking garage entrance and exit at the west end.

The east-facing section of the north wing has a single-window bay, two double-windows, and a triple-window, with the balconies from the north facade at the far corner. The west-facing section of the south wing is similar, but has a second single-window bay in place of the second double-window. The wider, west-facing section of the north wing matches that on the east facade, with a recessed center bay and balconies beginning at the 8th floor. The north-west "L' section is shorter and ends at the 32nd floor, while the south-east "L" extends to the 38th floor, with a mechanical penthouse and water tower enclosure at the junction.

The building contains 388 apartment units. The ground floor facing the plaza on the avenue is occupied by Edible Arrangements, and Food & Finance High School.