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At First Street Green Art Park: Nite Owl, SVA Mural Artist Residents, Jose Aurelio Baez, Damsel in Defiance, Vitale Brothers, Mort, Paolo Tolentino, VK Mills, Ratchi, Cram, Yellow Kid Slanty & Maxel

July 2, 2026

Situated right where the Lower East Side meets the East Village, First Street Green Art Park continues to showcase a rotating collection of murals spanning diverse artistic styles and themes. The boldly colorful image mural above was painted by Bay Area-based Nite Owl.  Several more artworks recently captured at FSG Park follow:

SVA Mural Resident Artists — Jenny Roesel Ustick (Mural Residency Coordinator, June 2026), Intelligent Mischief, Sarah R. Coates, Brooke W, Galen Dara, and Emma

NYC-based painter and muralist Jose Aurelio Baez

NYC-based itinerant artist Damsel in Defiance introduces us to her signature character

St. Petersburg-based muralists the Vitale Brothers

Mort, Paolo Tolentino and VK Mills bring a pizza party to the park

Ratchi, Cram  and  Yellow Kid Slanty celebrate the Knicks

Danish artist Maxel shares his stylish graffiti with us New Yorkers

All artworks painted under the curatorial direction of Jonathan Neville.

Photo credits: 1-7 Lois Stavsky; 8 Tara Murray

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At First Street Green Art Park with: Toxicómano, Erre, Praxis, Chris RWK, Nite Owl, Fumero, CP Won, Marka 27, Ratchi & Cram

September 15, 2021

The murals that surface at First Street Green Art Park — under the curatorial direction of Jonathan Neville — continue to represent an intriguingly diverse range of artists with varied sensibilities and styles. The image featured above was recently painted by the wonderfully talented Colombian artist Toxicómano Callejero, whom I had first met in Bogota over a decade ago. What follows are several more murals that have made their way to First Street Green Art Park since this past spring:

Colombian artists Erre and Praxis

NYC-based Chris RWK in collaboration with Nite Owl

Fumero with an optimistic message

Miami-based Chilean artist Claudio Picasso aka CP WON

Mexican artist Victor “MARKA27” Quinonez

Ratchi in collaboration with Cram

First Street Green Art Park is located between Houston and First Street off the F train’s Second Avenue stop.

Photo credits: Sara C Mozeson, 1, 2 & 7; Lois Stavsky, 3 – 6

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