All Photos By Gail

Tucked along Lafayette Street between Canal and Howard, this striking mural pays tribute to Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca, whose brief but transformative stay in New York City in 1929–30 inspired his landmark work Poet in New York.

Painted in 2015 by Granada-based street artist El Niño de las Pinturas, the mural bridges literature and urban art, bringing Lorca’s poetic legacy directly onto the city’s streets. Both portrait and homage, it serves as a reminder that poetry, like street art, belongs to the public realm—alive, visible, and deeply connected to place.

Mural Detail