Manuel MojicaE 119th St between 3rd Ave and 2nd AveHeart Four · Location 442 · Drawn July 2004Download photograph 1Download photograph 2Download photograph 3Download photograph 4Download photograph 5Download photograph 6Download photograph 7Download photograph 8Download photograph 9Download photograph 10Video podcast0:00On East 119th Street between 3rd and 2nd Avenue, on the north side of the street, is a brightly0:08painted blue surface.0:11This surface frames several doorways and the largest retractable metal gate for trucks0:17is bordered on the right by a painted sign that declares, let's keep our community clean.0:24This drawing was made on the dark blue cinder block just to the left of that and the drawing0:30to the lighter blue-stinner block connected to that surface.0:34This is Manuel Mojica.0:36He was drawn in July of 2004.0:40His drawing is counting one person.0:44We want a wall right here with the large, nine-foot-high,0:48let's-keep-our-community-clean sign bursting out from the wall.0:53This wall complements the tape well.0:55The bright, bold color.0:56healthy blue with our sort of semi-healthy green.1:02This is a nice wall to draw on.1:05Passing some nice community gardens.1:07Some nice Cuban flags. Are these Cuban flags? Puerto Rican flags?1:11Puerto Rico.1:14So at what point in time were you guys making the drawings in this particular neighborhood?1:18This again was about a little bit more than a year ago now.1:22I think we walked this path on or very close to that 4th of July weekend.1:27This was three years ago.1:32If you miss the muscle-bound guy with six tattoos, smirk tucked under his mustache,1:37roaring around on a Harley Davidson,1:40Manny Mel, as Manuel Mojica was known,1:43had one more way to announce himself.1:45Without using his fingers, he could whistle so forcefully1:48that he never had to ring his fiancée's apartment buzzer.1:52That whistle reverberated across the little league fields where he coached with his firefighting buddy and fellow Yankee fan, Bernard Floody.← Location 441Heart Four · Location 442Location 443 →
