The plaza at Astor Place looks a bit different thanks to recent renovations, but one familiar landmark remains unchanged: the Astor Place Cube. New Yorkers were dismayed when the spinning statue was ...

Tailgaters. TV crews. Cheering fans. The unusual buzz on Astor Place in the East Village Wednesday morning was for Wegmans, the Rochester-based supermarket chain making its long-awaited Manhattan ...

Under the cover of the night this past Monday, a crew of workers from the New York City Department of Transportation removed the Astor Place Cube. Originally installed in the East Village in 1967, the ...

Alamo cube in the 1970s at Astor Place. Photo from the Cooper Union Archive. When I posted the picture on my Facebook page after my visit, friends were in disbelief. “I prefer to believe you were in ...

Red, white and blue barber poles spin outside Astor Place Hairstylists at 2 Astor Place. Graffiti bearing the venue’s name leads downstairs to a basement haircuttery that’s graced Manhattan for over ...

The project seemed blessed. The wedge-shaped site at 445 Lafayette Street, behind the Astor Place cube and next to Cooper Union, had been a parking lot for decades, awaiting its moment. A project ...

On a north-facing triangle of Astor Place, the skeleton of a new 21-story residential tower has been racing skyward out On a north-facing triangle of Astor Place, the skeleton of a new 21-story ...

This poker game is a cut above. New York’s historic Astor Place haircutters has been hosting monthly underground poker games for city luminaries, including Ira Glass, John Hodgman and Danny Strong — ...