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64 Square Feet: Writer Lived Inside Astor Place Cube in New York City (apartmenttherapy.com)
2 points by yeukhon on Oct 2, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Its a hoax. The cube has a central column running through it which creates the vertical axis it spins on. There are also splines inside running to this to provide rigidity.

Here's a photo of the removal for maintenance some years back.

http://gothamist.com/2005/03/10/the_astor_place_cube_removal...


Looks like a hoax to me. The ending shows whil the company...




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