Incase you missed it, yesterday we ran a post about a standoff at the Alamo between a group of kids with chalk and the cops. The story was pretty simple: Saturday afternoon a number of kids decided it would be fun to chalk up Tony Rosenthal's recently returned sculpture the Alamo, often referred to as simply the Cube. The kids, some of whom apparently had just finished their SATs, chalked away to their hearts......

If all has gone as planned, the Alamo cube should have returned to Astor Place at precisely 8am today. Has anyone been by to see it in person? Update: mystery! Word is that the cube has not yet arrived! Where could it be? Developing... Update: Matt Levy, who was planning on throwing an absurdly meta-party at the cube at 4pm (with people dressing up as Mexicans, Cowboys, and Cubist painters... you know, b/c it's......

It feels like a thousand years since the beloved Astor Place cube (full name: Alamo, by Tony Rosenthal) disappeared, but a quick consultation of the Gothamist archives reveals that the abduction occured on March 9, 2005. Following months of speculation, New York Magazine reports that the cube is supposed to be back in place by 8am on Monday morning. And there's more! The cube has been somewhat spiffed up for its return: “One of......

Right when Gothamist had given up hope that the Cube (er, Tony Rosenthal's The Alamo) would ever return to its rightful place in Astor Place, instead to be replaced by that very unspinnable building the Sculpture for Living, comes word (third to last item) that it will eventually return. Warner Johnston, a Parks Department spokesperson, reports that the Cube, which was supposed to return 60 days after it was removed in March, is undergoing......

After giving us the scoop about removing the Astor Place cube for some repair, The Parks Department sent Gothamist a photograph of the removal process. Clearly, if a bunch of ambitious kids wanted to steal it, they would have needed a crane. In the Village Voice's news > Neighbors Miffed Over Missing Cube by Sarah Ferguson" href="http://villagevoice.com/news/0510,ferguson4,61963,5.html">follow-up article, Gothamist learned that the cube's rotating power used to be great: Artist Tony Rosenthal said, "It......

The City Parks Department contacted Gothamist to set the facts straight about the disappearance of the Astor Place Cube, the rotating sculpture beloved to New Yorkers. Director of Public Information Warner Johnston told us that the cube was removed last night for repairs: One of the four large bolts that attaches the cube to the base was missing! When people would try to rotate the cube, the cube would tilt, so the Parks Department......