Tuesday, September 13, 2016

[Updated] The Alamo returns tomorrow (Wednesday!)

According to this community advisory anyway (via an EVG reader) ... no mention of what time, though, for this blessed event...



These bulletins have been wrong at least once, when the city said the cube would be back on June 22. The Parks Department then announced that the Alamo was "being inspected by a conservator for final preparation," and that the return would be delayed until August. And then September.

The return, if does indeed happen tomorrow, will coincide with the first Astor Alive! Festival happening this weekend.

Workers packed up and carted off the Alamo for safekeeping for the duration of the Astor Place-Cooper Square reconstruction back on Nov. 25, 2014. The cube was installed here in 1967.

Updated 9/14
AARRGH...



Previously on EV Grieve:
The Alamo returns to Astor Place this Halloween

Five years later, Astor Place apparently ready for its 2-year reconstruction project

This is what it might be like living inside the Alamo on Astor Place

RIP Tony Rosenthal, the sculptor who created the Astor Place cube

8 comments:

Walter said...

Another spectacular arrow

NOTORIOUS said...

Question: Has Amanda Burden-Christ confirmed this?

Anonymous said...

Remember the rotatable cube sculpture!

cmarrtyy said...

Actually the installation has been canceled in favor of a rotating food vendor.... southwest food of course.

Anonymous said...

The cube made sense when it was in the middle of a small traffic island — I think once it's in the middle of a large pedestrian area its sterility will be plain for all to see.

Anonymous said...

BYO cupcakes.

Anonymous said...

Wonder how long B4 it is tagged.

Anonymous said...

yeah yeah, i'll believe it when i see it.