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Alamo, also known as the Astor Place Cube or simply The Cube, is an outdoor sculpture by Tony Rosenthal, located on Astor Place, in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It is a black cube , 8 feet (2.4 m) long on each side, mounted on a corner.
21 Astor Place (also known as "Clinton Hall" and "13 Astor Place") stands on the site which was once the Astor Opera House. After the Astor Place riot, the building was turned over to the New York Mercantile Library, which used it until 1890, when they tore it down and built the current 11-story building. The Library left in 1932, and the ...
Alamo, Astor Place, New York City, 1967. This "established Rosenthal as a master of monumental public sculpture, and something of a standard bearer of the contemporary structurist esthetic." [11] He stated: "It is…important the sculpture interact with the public." [12] The Cube "Endover", The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1968.
The New York Mercantile Library building at Astor Place (George E. Harney, arch., 1891), once the site of the Astor Opera House, now condominiums; Alamo, a cube-shaped sculpture in Astor Place; Astor Library (1854), founded by John Jacob Astor, now housing The Public Theater
This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places on Manhattan Island below 14th Street, which is a significant portion of the New York City borough of Manhattan. In turn, the borough of Manhattan is coterminous with New York County, New York.
The initially unnamed cube is a refinement of Alamo, with a revolving mechanism that allows the sculpture to spin more easily than its counterpart in New York. [6] Endover is a gift to the university from the Class of 1965 and the sculptor. The cube was installed in Regents' Plaza in 1968. [7]
Astor Place Tower (also known as Sculpture for Living) is a 21-story residential building located on Astor Place in the NoHo neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The building was developed by The Related Companies and designed by architect Charles Gwathmey. The building was panned by architectural critics as a symbol of gentrification ...
Pages in category "Astor Place" ... 0–9. Eighth Street–New York University station; 51 Astor Place; 770 Broadway; A. Alamo (sculpture) Astor Library; C.