October 15, 2004 Celia Cruz Mural
Within a couple of days after salsa-music singing queen Celia Cruz
passed away last year, this memorial mural went up on a wall facing
East Houston Street near Avenue B. The area has quickly gentrified in
recent years, but still retains the flavor of the Puerto Rican community
that still calls the neighborhoods at the far east ends of the East
Village and the Lower East Side home. The mural was painted by the local
artist Chico, whose work can be found throughout New York, but
especially in neighborhoods of lower Manhattan.
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