The former Domino Sugar factory in Brooklyn is celebrating Williamsburg’s cultural history with a giant new mural.
Artists from the community group “El Puente” unveiled the mural located at Grand Street and Kent Avenue.
Professional muralists teamed up with student painters to create the piece.
Artists say they wanted to honor the Latino community that has lived in south Williamsburg for almost a century.
They collected stories and interviews and turned them into pieces of the mural.
“We interviewed people talking about, what was it like being a new immigrant in the community? What was it like to grow up here in the 50s? What was it like to grow up here in the 40s?” said lead muralist Joe Matunis.
“People forget that we’re here, that we’ve been here and that the arts have been here,” said community artist Sylvia Hernandez.
“This mural means that no matter what happens to the community, the people of this community are going to always represent the community,” said Tayshawn Edmonds of Los Muralistas.
The mural rings the perimeter of the Domino Sugar Factory site.
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