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The Astor Place Cube, a staple of people's pedestrian life in the East Village/Astor Place/NoHoish Broadway area, is suddenly gone. The Village Voice speaks to various New Yorkers, who lament and theorize about the cube's disappearance, but there are few hard facts. The possibility the cube, also known as "the Alamo," was taken to be repaired is the most likely, given that the cube which people were able to rotate seemed stuck recently. Do any of our readers work in (or know people who work in) the Parks Department or other appropriate public arts organizations and may have clues to the case of the missing cube? If not, we might need to channel the spirit of Encyclopedia Brown! Update: Mystery solved!
You can remember the Alamo through the super fun Rubik's Cube prank.
Photo from Jesse Chan-Norris
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well, one can always go to ann arbor to see one there.
Go Blue!
The legend at Michigan is that the Prez of the University gives it a ceremonial spin in morning to get things started.
As a freshman it was uncanny to see a bizarro cube sitting next to the bursar's office in Ann Arbor, but then again, it seemed like a bit of fate sneaking into the picture.
In any case, it's about time the Astor Place cube got some maintenance, the one in Ann Arbor had no trouble spinning the world around, whereas ours here felt like it was cemented in place. There's a joke in there somewhere... How many alternateens does it take to spin the cube at Astor Place?