Murray Hill Terrace Condominiums

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180-foot, 19-story mid-century modern residential building completed in 1963. Designed by H. Herbert Lilien and Clarence Lilien & Sons, it is clad in light-grey brick. The ground floor along the avenue is lined with plate-glass storefront bays between granite piers (with entrance doors in the 3rd bay from the south); the north end has two metal service doors. The south facade on 36th Street has white-painted brick at the ground floor. There is a centered residential entrance in a black polished granite surround, with bronze-framed glass double-doors and sidelights; on either side the surround has a niche, with a window in the western one. The doorway is covered by a rounded, grey canvas canopy extending out over the sidewalk, and there are no other openings on the ground floor. There is a small 1-story extension at the fat east end with two metal service doors, topped by a metal fence and railing.

The upper floors on the south facade have, from west to east, a triple-window bay, a bay of narrow single-windows, two double-window bays, and four triple-window bays, all with white metal framing. The two outer bays at each end set back above the 14th floor, and the next bay in on the east side sets back above the 17th floor. The next bay in on the west side sets back above the 16th floor, and the 15th-16th floors here have bands of floor-to-ceiling windows with an angled corner.

The upper floors of the west facade have, from the north end, four triple-window bays, a double-window, another triple-window, and another double-window, with no openings at the south end. Both ends set back above the 14th floor, with some recessed balconies with glass railings at the top floors. There is a tall, brick-clad water tower enclosure at the center of the roof.

The exposed upper part of the north facade has just two bays of single-windows. The east elevation is split into a southern part with two single-windows flanking a double-window, an intermediate section partly set back with a double-window bay, and a farther set-back north section with a triple-window, double-window, band of five windows, and another single-window before a final end bay of triple-windows.

The building was converted from apartments to condominiums in 1985, with 118 units.