{"id":386666,"date":"2026-10-29T15:18:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T15:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/386666\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T15:18:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T15:18:48","slug":"the-tallest-mural-in-the-u-s-is-now-in-the-south-bronx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/386666\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tallest Mural in the U.S. Is Now in the South Bronx"},"content":{"rendered":"

The South Bronx just gave New Yorkers a 300-foot reason to look up from their phones.<\/p>\n

\u201cUn MAR de Gente \/ From Every Shore,\u201d a new mural stretching more than 300 feet up a 29-story NYCHA building at Morrisania Air Rights, has officially arrived. Organizers call it the tallest mural in the United States, giving the South Bronx a national superlative that has neighborhood roots.<\/p>\n

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Created by Dominican artist Nestor Omar Garc\u00eda, known as Angurria, the artwork celebrates Dominican heritage and the people who make the surrounding community tick. It depicts Bronx residents whose stories helped shape the enormous portrait of neighborhood life.\u00a0Across three sections, the street art<\/a>\u00a0features a grandmother wearing hair rollers and holding a baby, people representing different cultures and two children playing near a fire hydrant.<\/p>\n

The rollers are especially personal: Angurria traces his signature imagery to childhood memories of women at his mother\u2019s salon in the Dominican Republic. His recurring \u201cDo\u00f1a Patria\u201d character takes her name from his mother, bringing a familiar expression of Dominican beauty culture into public view.<\/p>\n

For this commission, public art nonprofit ArtBridge<\/a> worked with Angurria and Bronx artist Fernando Ortiz, founder of FOGA, to gather residents\u2019 ideas through community workshops. The Morrisania Air Rights Residents Association and Public Housing Community Fund also collaborated on the project.<\/p>\n

Neighbors had opinions on the details, right down to the accessories.\u00a0\u201cWe decided on things collaboratively, from the scrunchies to the T-shirts and shoes,\u201d ArtBridge program director Jon Souza told PIX11<\/a>.\u00a0For anyone passing through, it\u2019s an introduction to the families who call the development home.<\/p>\n

\"Mural
\nPhotograph: Kevin TalbotMural by Nestor Omar Garcia in the South Bronx <\/p>\n

Artists, residents and project partners celebrated the mural\u2019s formal unveiling yesterday, October 27, after neighbors watched its progress for weeks.\u00a0To see it for yourself, head to Morrisania Air Rights at 3145 Park Avenue, near East 158th Street in Melrose. The building\u2019s exterior is the canvas, so this art outing requires no timed ticket or fear of standing too close.<\/p>\n

In a city where getting a little wall space usually costs a fortune, the neighbors have landed quite a gallery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The South Bronx just gave New Yorkers a 300-foot reason to look up from their phones. \u201cUn MAR…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[1149,128,8944,9,24,8945,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-386666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-art","tag-bronx","tag-categories-art","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news-art","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}