Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe NEW YORK, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- A floating apartment building with a prime view of the New York City skyline is really for the birds -- and the sculptor wants it that way. The upscale 10-unit birdhouse is inside a 24-foot high aluminum tree work of art attached to two pontoons anchored in the East River, the New York Post reported Wednesday. Advertisement Artist Chico MacMurtrie said he plans to ask the state Department of Environmental Conservation for a permit to move the metal tree work to a nearby inlet. “It's a floating tree and meant to be a condominium for birds where they can gather," he said. “The reason I'm building a metallic tree using urban materials is we're quickly losing trees in the world and the tree is our breath." The 10 one-room cedar birdhouses are not visible from the outside. MacMurtrie said they're intended for cavity-dwelling birds.
