…the myriad people and communities which intersect at this location. 1980s photo of the Alamo surrounded by a flea market. © Village Preservation Historic Image Archive. The Alamo’s longevity and lasting appeal belie…
Read MoreAlamo, circa 1971 via the Library of Congress. It’s fall, 1967. A one-ton steel cube is dropped by the Lindsay administration into the middle of a grimy traffic island in…
Read More…by his wife, Cynthia Rosenthal, because its size and mass reminded her of the famous Alamo Mission in San Antonio. The Alamo, early 1980s, from GVSHP’s Historic Image Archive Carole Teller Collection…
Read MoreThe old Astor Place. The Alamo and the mosaics will be returning. The hammock will not. Image via http://heryktomassini.com/artwork/3759111-hammock-at-astor-place.html If you are one of the over 100,000 people a day…
Read More…Design and Construction, The Alamo Sculpture was originally installed in 1967 as part of “Sculpture and the Environment”. The Cube by Bernard “Tony” Rosenthal was one of 25 temporary art…
Read More…The Alamo, immobile as of mid-2022 The plan, which received required approvals from the city’s Public Design Commission at its meeting on March 20, calls for the Alamo to be…
Read More…of Astor Place is the famous “Alamo” sculpture. The 1,800-pound artwork created by Bernard “Tony” Rosenthal was originally named “Sculpture and the Environment,” but was eventually renamed The Alamo by his…
Read More…Historic Image Archive. One of NYC’s most well-known and beloved sculptures is “the Alamo” on Astor Place. 1980s photo of the Alamo via our Historic Image Archive Carole Teller’s Chaging New York…
Read MoreTony Rosenthal’s Alamo Sculpture on Astor Place. Fifty years ago today, the musical Hair premiered at The Public Theater. The first rock musical, it would go on to become a pacifist…
Read More…Alamo sculpture, surrounded by murals, vendors, and musicians on Astor Place, looking south from 8th Street, between Lafayette Street and Cooper Square. The picture dates to the early 1980s. The…
Read More…at Astor Place Subway Station (Photograph sourced from Netflix’s “Russian Doll”) Students gathered around The Alamo in the 1980s. Image taken by Carole Teller and sourced from her Changing New…
Read More…revitalization of the Astor Place plazas which includes the restoration of Tony Rosenthal’s Alamo sculpture (‘The Cube”), just re-installed. Part of the renowned East Village Mosaic Trail, the mosaic light…
Read More…here and here. Diagonally across the street from the newly installed Haring piece, the central plaza at Astor Place has recently lost its centerpiece. Tony Rosenthal’s cube-shaped sculpture, Alamo, has…
Read More…selling nuclear secrets to Russia. Ethel’s brother, David Greenglass, worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory and allegedly supplied Julius with information regarding the atomic bomb. Harry Gold, an acquaintance of…
Read More…into a parking lot. Another picture from our Archive from our Carole Teller’s Changing New York Collection from the early 1980s shows the site during that stage. Alamo Sculpture, mural,…
Read More…back at the area’s more recent history. From the building of the Cooper Union Foundation Building, to the landmarked IRT Astor Place subway station, to Tony Rosenthal’s Alamo cube sculpture,…
Read More…Oppenheimer’s Los Alamos, Holmes’ “Murder Castle” was a place where the nature of existence itself was on the table for experimentation. WORLDS FAIR INN is an impressionist explosion revealing these…
Read More…to more quirky findings like the “Goodnight Moon” house. 1. Washington Square North Washington Square North, via Wiki Commons San Francisco has its painted ladies on Alamo Square, and New York…
Read More…Square Arch wrapped in cloth by the artist Francis Hines in 1980; Astor Place’s ‘The Alamo’ (aka ‘The Cube’) with a wall mural as backdrop, and a street band and bicyclists as…
Read More…pedestrianizing sections of Astor Place between Lafayette Street and Cooper Square and surrounding Tony Rosenthal’s Alamo cube sculpture with a plaza, we thought we’d take a look at the site…
Read More…like so many others, we wanted to ensure the return of the Alamo sculpture (sometimes known as “The Cube”). And now it has been returned, and it’s still spinnable, especially…
Read More…Jewish-American Communists, along with Soviet spy Morton Sobell, were accused of selling nuclear secrets to Russia. Ethel’s brother, David Greenglass, worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory and allegedly supplied Julius…
Read More…would be the number of artists per capita in both areas. Tony Rosenthal’s Alamo Sculpture on Astor Place, long a symbol of the artistic personality of the Village and surrounding…
Read More…The Center for Migration Studies are already up on Urban Archive. The Alamo Cube “then (1980) and now (2017)” posted by Urban Archive, with a Scavenger Hunter getting her points…
Read MoreAstor at 50 Street Festival Co-sponsored by the Village Alliance/Astor Place & Village Preservation The “Alamo” Cube turns 50! Join the official birthday party for the iconic sculpture by Tony…
Read More…Alamo Sculpture, mural, vendors, & musicians on Astor Place, looking south from 8th Street, between Lafayette Street and Cooper Square, early 1980s. Photo by Carole Teller. Check out some public…
Read More…what’s around us that ties our city to its roots. In making those roots tangible, we see how important our neighborhoods are. The Alamo Cube “then (1980) and now (2017)”…
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