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190-foot, 18-story mid-century modern cooperative-apartment building completed in 1956. Designed by Sylvan Bien and Robert L. Bien, it is clad in beige brick above a limestone ground floor. The entrance on Park Avenue has glass double-doors with a window pane on either side, recessed between two polished black granite piers. To the left is a wide plate-glass show-window with another granite pier at its end. The limestone cladding extends up to the 2nd floor at these two bays; here the upper floors have triple-windows in both bays. To the south is a recessed area with two double-window bays, and then a non-recessed end bay with a triple-window and an additional pane wrapping around the north corner to the recessed area. At the ground floor there is a secondary door and a single-window below the southern double-window bay, and a double-window the triple-window end bay.

To the north of the granite section is a recessed area with a single-window and a double-window bay. The north end of the west facade is not recessed, and has a triple-window wrapping around the corner (a double-window at the ground floor), a single-window (with a door at the ground floor), a triple-window bay (double-window at the ground floor), and another single-window (plus an additional double-window at the north end of the ground floor only). The windows all have white aluminum framing, and there are black metal air-conditioning vents below the larger bays. The non-recessed southern bays set back above the 14th floor, and all of the southern half sets back above the 15th floor, with another setback at the southern third above the 17th floor. The north bays also set back above the 17th floor, as well as shifting the south single-window bay to double-windows, the triple-windows to single-windows, and ending the north single-window bay above the 15th floor, and having angled corners at the 16th-17th floors.

The north facade on 36th Street has, from west to east, a double-window bay, a single-window bay, two more double-window bays (with the first one having a single-window at the ground floor, which is where the limestone cladding ends; this bay wraps around the corner to a small setback where the next double-window bay also wraps around the corner of another small setback to a final bay of triple-windows (with green meal double-doors and a single-window at the ground floor). There are also a couple small setbacks at the top floors on this facade. A small 1-story wing wraps around the neighboring townhouse, with a parking garage entrance and black metal service door.

The east elevation has many single-windows at the north part, with a recessed double-window bay near the center, and the south end having a triple-window with the northern pane angled, a double-window bay, a triple-window bay that sets back above the 10th floor, and a double-window end bay with setbacks from the south above the 10th and 14th floors.

The west half of the south facade is visible from the avenue, and has three bays of single-windows, with a couple triple-windows at the top floors.

The building was converted to a co-op in 1970, with 145 apartments.