On Tuesday morning, a group of New York City officials including DOT Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez worked together to push the Astor Place Cube and got it spinning once again. After a months-long ...

Spun right into the ground. A beloved black spinning cube at Astor Place is in such sad shape that it’s now saddled in a metal brace while city moguls mull repair of the massive art installation — and ...

The hulking Alamo Cube has come to define New York's Astor Place over the decades and is celebrated by its neighbors, demarcating the boundary between the heart of the East Village and the valley of ...

Q: Years ago, I worked near Manhattan’s Astor Place Plaza and regularly walked by a hulking square sculpture there. Eventually, I moved to Texas and forgot all about it—until I read a while back that ...