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After a brief false alarm earlier in the week, a tipster let's us know on Gothamist Contriubute that the Astor Place Cube, aka the Alamo, has returned. While it's still sheathed in a gold cover, we imagine it's actually underneath unless they're just playing one big trick on everyone. The was removed way back in March for some repairs, but now that it's finally back, those crazy hipsters can do their dances to celebrate the return.
The replacement that we might miss the most though, is the PVC Cube.
Update:
The unveiling of the Alamo will happen at 11. The gold sheet covered cube pictured above is from Hard Cutting. If anyone has a videocamera, and feels like getting us a clip of the sheet coming off, we'd love it!
Update 2: Gothamist readers are on the scene and sending in cameraphone images:
Update 3: Gothamist correspondent Jesse Chan Norris was on the scene for the unveiling, and he's uploading his pictures now. Here's a preview:
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the "unveiling" ceremony is at 11am. i can't wait to see how much the same it looks.
a new coat of paint, perhaps? no adhesive from all the stickers?
you mean those crazy gutter punks can do their dances to celebrate the return.
Oh, Happy Day! Another place to go for my lunch walk about.
Wonder if they got all the various stains off it??
Didn't it take about nine months to clean up Ground Zero? And it took ten months to clean the cube. There must have been some nasty gunk inside of it.
Great shots by jcn.
Now if they could just finish the job and remove the nasty mirror coops on the other side of the street...
Is that James Earl Jones?
No, that's Uncle Pennybanks, a new tenent from the undulating building. As part of the Cube unveiling ceremony Uncle Pennybanks beat several dirty punksters with his cane and shooed them away from his neighborhood to usher in a new era in East Village history. It's only a matter of time before Uncle Pennybanks comes after me too.
Dang, that was a long time. I mean really; how long does it take to cut that thing open and install some simple electronic people monitoring/eavsdropping equipment, and seal'er back up?
Hey, maybe they installed some high frequency tone generator as well (Like those ultrasonic devices for repelling animals) to keep away the riff raff.