"Built in 1927 as a world-class hotel and converted in 1954 to cooperative ownership, the Sherry features a base of travertine marble which gives way to a dark-brick facade that soars 38 stories to it’s crowning glory, a delightful copper crown, now green with the passage of time. Gargoyles protrude from it’s crown, looking for all the world as if they were about to swoop down to the Pond in Central Park. "