Mr. Hinkel, the high-rise's developer, said 19 slabs of the wall, each four feet long, will be relocated "only a few meters" beside the East Side Gallery.
Over the weekend, tourists snapped photos of the East Side Gallery paintings, which were restored around the time of the city's commemoration of the 20th anniversary of reunification.
After pulling it off the wall at the Upper East Side gallery, he stashed it in a shopping bag and flew with it back to Athens, authorities said.
Protesters last week blocked workers from removing the tennis-court-length piece of the East Side Gallery, a 1, 400-yard section of the wall covered with artwork running alongside the Spree River.
The East Side Gallery was created in 1990, when artists from around the world painted more than 100 works on the part of the inner wall that kept East Germans from crossing into the security zone.
The second Istavrioglou walked out of the Upper East Side gallery last summer with the Dali watercolor and onto Fifth Avenue, he "was scared and couldn't believe what a stupid thing he did, " the papers say.
"I wish to emphasize that, as a Berlin-based company, we are just as interested in the preservation of the East Side Gallery as a historical monument as are Berliners and people in the entire world, " he said.
The fall of the wall was a kind of year zero for Berlin and was followed by a wave of optimism, illustrated by the murals from that era at the East Side Gallery (the longest section of the Berlin wall still standing), but the integration of the relatively impoverished eastern section hasn't been easy and is an ongoing process.
Authorities in New York allege he flew back to Athens with the painting after taking it from the Upper East Side Manhattan gallery.
But it was only at the relatively late age of 50 in 1957, when Mr Castelli first opened the doors of his apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side as a gallery, that his career finally took off.
Linking to the library's photography gallery on the east side and the main library on the south side, it is hoped the terrace will also be a venue for events, expected to be used by the adjoining Rep Theatre among others.
Nonsense, says Edelman, over a salad lunch in his gallery office on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
At the same time as Mr. Trincher's arrest, the FBI said it staged a raid roughly 20 blocks north at the Helly Nahmad Gallery inside the Carlyle Hotel on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
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