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[Photos by peter radley]
Banksy's "Concrete Confessional" was discovered/unveiled last Saturday... it was naturally quickly defaced/augmented, etc. ...
On Wednesday, construction workers apparently attempted to prevent future vandalism/augmentation by putting plexiglass over the art...
And now, sometime yesterday, someone removed the entire hunk of concrete (intended for use in the Cooper Square-Astor Place revamp), as these photos by EVG reader Robert Miner show...
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Perhaps the Confessional was carted away to an unspecified gallery like that car on Ludlow Street was...
Meanwhile, how are you feeling about the Banksy hype these days?