Although marketed as artists' studios, 130 West 57th Street was also home to lawyers, stock brokers, teachers, and other professionals.

Other nearby buildings include Metropolitan Tower, Russian Tea Room, Carnegie Hall Tower, and Carnegie Hall to the west; the Louis H. Chalif Normal School of Dancing and One57 to the northwest; the Nippon Club Tower and Calvary Baptist Church to the north; 111 West 57th Street to the northeast; and CitySpire, New York City Center, and 125 West 55th Street to the south.

[7] By the 21st century, the artistic hub had largely been replaced with Billionaires' Row, a series of luxury skyscrapers around the southern end of Central Park.

[13] The main facade overlooking 57th Street consists of five vertical bays, which contain metal windows and are separated by brick piers.

At the base, the central bay contains a slightly projecting entrance pavilion clad with rusticated and vermiculated limestone blocks.

The cornice rests on six large pairs of iron brackets, which are aligned with the tops of the brick piers.

[10][18] The interiors contained double-height studios, characterized by House Beautiful magazine as "a splendid backdrop for tapestry or painting".

According to the Department of City Planning, the building has a gross floor area of 73,444 square feet (6,823.2 m2) and has 46 units, of which 10 are zoned for residential use.

[18][29] The construction contract was awarded to William J. Taylor,[29] and funded with a $475,000 loan from the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.

[18] Although marketed as artists' studios, 130 West 57th Street was also home to lawyers, stock brokers, teachers, and other professionals.

[14][32] Another resident, painter Childe Hassam, sometimes depicted the building's trapezoidal windows in his Impressionist paintings.

[33] The building's basement store was removed in 1922 and the entrance staircases were recessed as part of a project to widen West 57th Street.

[14] The building was converted to a rental apartment in 1937,[14] and Met Life bought 130 West 57th Street at auction the next year for $300,000.

[37] Upon Abram's death four years later, his brother David, who lived at 130 West 57th Street with his wife and daughter, continued to operate the building.

[16] Through the mid-20th century, tenants at 130 West 57th Street included Ray Charles, The Rolling Stones, and the studios of Woody Allen's production company.

[39] David Jedwabnik's daughter Mira Van Doren, along with her son Daniel, started managing the building in the 1980s, and renovated the hallways and mosaic tiles in the 1990s.

[16] The Planet Hollywood at the building's base had closed by late 2000, when the restaurant moved to Times Square.