Little Italy. Taken on April 30th.
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Monthly Archives: May 2008
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.
Saint Aloysius
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Saint Aloysius Roman Catholic Church in Ridgewood, Queens serves English, Polish and Spanish speaking parishioners.
Technical data: Electric-keyboard chime of 13 bells - Pitch of heaviest bell is D# in the middle octave - Transposition is nil (concert pitch) - Keyboard range: D#– / —- - The whole instrument was installed in 1925with bells made by Meneely/Wvlt
Chime (1) - a musical instrument consisting of at least 8 tower bells arranged in a diatonic (or partially chromatic) series, and upon which tunes can be played by some means, but with too few bells to be called a carillon.
