Bonus: Gateway to the Waterfront, Downtown Yonkers
Just outside of New York City, you’ll find what’s left of Haas’ Gateway to the Waterfront murals in downtown Yonkers. Commissioned by the city of Yonkers in 1997, the three-part mural depicted semi-imagined visions of Yonkers’ 378-year history. Two of the original three murals have since been demolished along with the budlings they were attached to, and the final mural is endangered.
“Some murals have a little mystery in them,” Haas revealed, for example, the man peaking out of the door of city hall in this Yonkers mural was Dutch Schultz, a bootlegger who had a storied history in the city of Yonkers. “Legend has it that during prohibition he ran beer through the culverts in the city. Often there are discoveries of this sort to be made within the murals. Another one in Philadelphia shows a man rowing a scull taken from a Charles Eakins painting.” Read more about the Yonkers murals here!
Next, check out A Lost Modernist Mural Returned to the MetLife Building and The Keith Haring Mural Inside Woodhull Hospital
