The late Eddie Boros’ 65-foot tall tower constructed of found materials at the East 6th Street and Avenue B community garden was recently deemed unsafe and uninsurable by the Department of Parks and Recreation. This past week it has been quickly dismantled and now rests in pieces in a large Parks Department dumpster in the street. The tower, built in fits and starts over twenty years by Boros, generated mixed reactions from those who viewed it as a great folk-art piece and landmark to community character and from those who were just plain creeped out by the deteriorating stuffed animals tacked up to the structure’s convoluted skeleton. Either way, the block seems a little bare without the familiar presence of the quirky tower among the garden’s trees.
