Sculpture Alamo Located in the small triangle of traffic to the south of the historic Underground entrance of Astor Place and just to the north of Cooper Union, this steel sculpture takes the form of a cube of black color, 2.4 meters long on each side, mounted on a corner, the hub is made with a type of steel that has a chemical composition that makes your oxidation has some particular feature that protect the parts made with this material against corrosion, the weight is 820 kg, the faces of the cube are flat, has several notches outgoing and cornices. The work was created for the temporary exhibition in the open air multi-site organized by subject and Cultural Park in October of 67, entitled "The sculpture in the environment", later became a gift to the city by the artist and an anonymous donor. Its imposing size and 'impenetrable fortress' gave rise to the wife of the artist to suggest the name Alamo, where in the city of San Antonio, about 180 Texans were attacked by thousands of Mexican soldiers in 1836. The Alamo serves as an element of transition between the center of Greenwich Village in the East Village and is very popular among the university students living and studying in the surrounding area that will be fun to turn the hub on its pivot and has become a tradition, the same thing that many people who arrive in New York consider that by turning the cube carried out a ritual as signaling that they have 'come' to the city, sitting or sleeping in the shadow of the hub is also popular.
