Friday, March 20, 2015

Nearly 1 year later, Peter Cooper starting to emerge from his box


[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...


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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:

Anonymous said...

Who knew ghosts sat down?!

Anonymous said...

@7:17
eternity is exhausting.

Anonymous said...

All that money and labor to fancy up the park homeless men sleep and argue in.

DrBOP said...

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.

Ken from Ken's Kitchen said...

Who are the ghostly figures in the pic representing - NYC's vanishing middle class?

Anonymous said...

I like the ghosts...
Melanie Neichin
East Village Corner

Anonymous said...

I love all the above comments.
Melanie
East Village Corner

DAVID said...

@ 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....

Anonymous said...

New EV residents will no longer be soul less they will just be souls.

Anonymous said...

They should call is ghost park...