Welcome to the Toy Tower
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Jeremiah over at the Vanishing New York blog has been keeping his ear to the ground and says that these are the last days of the Tower of Toys. A cherry picker may show up at any moment and begin taking it apart.
Before it’s gone, come to An Informal Celebration of the Tower of Toys, Sunday, May 11, 7pm – 9pm at the 6th Street & Avenue B Community Garden.
The Parks Department has declared it unsafe, but they are going to have a hell of a time taking it down. It is built around a living tree and is interconnected in a thousand ways. The wooden structure rests on the ground, but many of the struts are treated wood and do not appear to be rotted at all. But I would have to agree with some of the gardeners who feel that the large toys hanging from ropes could very well fall and injure or kill someone. To keep it safe requires someone to regularly crawl all over it to do maintainance . I don’t think anyone has volunteered for the job.
If anyone sees the heavy equipment showing up at the garden, please let me know. I’d like to document the process.
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this is like one of my bad dreams where i am in a wooden structure that goes on forever! i didn’t see Nixon with his hand out for me til now….thanks a lot!!! great pic, love it.
A plush nightmare Nixon, yikes.
I’ll check out Jeremiah’s blog. I gotta say, though it may be sacrilege, that I won’t mourn too much if this thing comes down. I think it’s lived its life.