Alamo Cube Gets a Hat

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Walking by Astor Place around noon yesterday, we noticed some art students adding an unauthorized chapeau to the Alamo monument. By 3 PM, high winds had begun knocking the wooden structure off-- no word on whether it survived the night.

Related:
Alamo Cube Cleaning, 2005
Cube Chalking, 2006
Cube Attacked with LEDs, 2006

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Wow, that looks pretty stupid.

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BREAKING NEWS: The Boston Police department have surrounded the Astor Place cube and have called in the national guard.

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it was gone by 4ish... was down there and didn't notice anything...

pretty neat though

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I was there around midnightish and did not see it.

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Fuckin hipsters, tell them not to mess with real art! Please NYPD bust their heads in!

So Jake's beat has been reduced to only street art?

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