If it weren't in Canada, and thus even colder than NYC at the moment, and if it weren't all sideways, I would seriously run away and join Rob Cruickshank's and Veronica Verkley's Sideways Circus, a tour de force of needle-nosed plier expertise and adaptive nano-reuse.
They created it partly in homage to Alexander Calder's bric-a-brac circus, and to dazzle the folks at Digifest 2006 in Toronto.
Sideways Circus photoset [flickr via dinosaurs and robots]