[Photo Tuesday by @unitof]
As you probably noticed, the Alamo returned to the revamped Astor Place on Tuesday.
Several readers asked if the fencing will remain around the cube.
[Photo Wednesday by @evgrieve]
I don't know. I doubt it. The barricades look pretty temporary
Meanwhile! The Alamo's return overshadowed another arrival this past week: A second zipper bench. This one is located outside the uptown 6 entrance.
Thanks to @edenbrower and @unitof for pointing this out!
9 comments:
benches for who
backless so you won't get too comfortable
hot in the summer and cold in the winter just in case
Benches for the homeless who deserve some consideration from all of us and from city officials.
I was about to point the crazy homeless guy who lives by Saint Marks church there... However, this bench got anti-homeless bars...
A few things... GREAT TO HAVE YOU BACK ALAMO. Then there's the bench... it looks out of place. Maybe it was a 2 for one sale because looks like an afterthought where it sits. As for afterthoughts how about the IceCream Outhouse? It defines ugly and it blocks the entrance to the subway station creating a safety issue. As for the rest of the renovation... It's still the worse use of space I've ever seen in the city - barren and sterile. There was an opportunity to do something beautiful and enticing for the residents and tourists alike. But the space reaching from 9th to 4th is a barren plane out of WAITING FOR GODOT. It just needs more trees and pits especially closer to 4th street where it seems the designer just gave up. It's sad to see so much space so badly used and badly designed when we have so little park/green space. And what will it cost to do it. Little. SO DO IT ALREADY!
Poor Amanda Burden-Christ. Seating is supposed to support the spine, not look like one. Somewhere HR Giger is thinking "reductive."
This is what happens when people design seating and never actually try it out before selling it to a city government.
While I do hate the placement of the zipper bench by the Great Hall, I've sat on one and found it surprisingly comfortable. The seat curvature seems to be ergonomic, supporting a straight back without having a seat back.
But there is definitely a drawback in the design as I see that garbage gets trapped within the zipper. If the BID responsibly provides daily cleaning of the plaza, this can be remedied too, probably with a power hose.
That is one ugly bench!!!
I am going to reserve judgment on the zippers until I've spent more time on them. I did notice that the seat was trapping water after the rain, so bring a dry towel. I don't know why my cmarrtyy is having a meltdown over the ice cream shack. It's 15 feet from the subway entrance. And from now on you can tell people, "Meet me at the ice cream shack."
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