I was hiking to the east village this afternoon and was pleasantly surprised when I noticed the cube has returned from the restorers. Today was the first really cold day of the season in NYC however I was happy to peel off my gloves, grab my camera and shoot a quick video.
Everyone I know calls it the cube however the title of the piece is Alamo, created by Tony Rosenthal in 1967 and installed on the traffic island between Cooper Square and Lafayette Street smack in the middle of Astor Place.
And the next time you are passing through Astor Place, walk up to the cube, give it a spin and take a pic. Then send me the link.
Here’s the movie (3.6mb quicktime faststart .mov)

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Hey! I can see it!
Looks good.
Kind of jumpy though, maybe a low framerate?
Anyway, great clip. And that thing is awesome. I’ll have to dip down that way next time I go visit my friend in the village.
Great music too.
Ah – used to live two blocks from there and am glad to see the cube’s return to its former beauty. Thanks for posting this!
P.S. Wasn’t jumpy on my G4 FireANT tho there have been some jumpy others this week. Hmmm.
The cube needs to have its own 24 hour “CUBECAM” !!!!!!!