[File photo via NYC Parks]
Workers boxed up Augustus Saint-Gaudens' sculpture of Cooper Union founder Peter Cooper last April ... for safekeeping during the ongoing Astor Place-Cooper Square reconstruction project.
EVG reader Katie B. has been keeping tabs on the boxed Cooper, which overlooks the Cooper Triangle Park ... and notes that he is slowly starting to emerge from underneath the plywood...
[Click on image for more detail]
Eventually the Park, which closed in November 2013, will look like this...with new seating and plantings as well as upgraded lighting (minus the ghosts probably)...
As for the statue, the official dedication took place on May 29, 1897. Check out the NYC Parks website here for more background.
10 comments:
Who knew ghosts sat down?!
@7:17
eternity is exhausting.
All that money and labor to fancy up the park homeless men sleep and argue in.
HE'S B-A-A-A-A-C-K ! ! !
And he's PISSED-OFF!
NOT HAPPY with Cooper Union's Bored Of Directors AND their Soul-Sucking Minions.
ESPECIALLY fed-up with the lack of empathy in the Village (anondick857).
Selected Executive SLIMINGS will begin at midnight.....you have been warned.
Who are the ghostly figures in the pic representing - NYC's vanishing middle class?
I like the ghosts...
Melanie Neichin
East Village Corner
I love all the above comments.
Melanie
East Village Corner
@ Anon at 8:57
So homeless aren't allowed to sleep in nice places?
This is one park revitalization I like. The former was pretty dreary, so nice to open up that green space.
That said, this project is taking forever....
New EV residents will no longer be soul less they will just be souls.
They should call is ghost park...
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