[2] Many early technological inventions were developed here including automatic telephone panel and crossbar switches, the first experimental talking movies (1923), black-and-white and color TV, video telephones, radar, the vacuum tube, medical equipment, the development of the phonograph record[3] and the first commercial broadcasts, including the first broadcast of a baseball game and the New York Philharmonic with Arturo Toscanini conducting.

In addition to affordable artist housing, the complex contains a theatre, an art gallery, and a synagogue.

[2][3] The complex was listed a second time on the National Register in 2009, for its high-profile and successful example of adaptive reuse of the property.

The southern viaduct section of the West Side Line railroad passed underneath the building at first floor level.

This segment remains in place but is now isolated from the rest of the former railroad viaduct, which is now the High Line elevated park.