Hoboken, NJ
Hoboken is Frank Sinatra's birthplace and one of the most densely built square miles in America — and its murals reflect both legacies. Washington Street's commercial corridor and the emerging arts spaces of the North End carry works that navigate between the city's working-class Italian-American past and its current demographic: young professionals with an eye for good street art and a Hudson River view.
Featured Artists
All artists →Vinnie Favale
Hoboken-born portrait specialist whose Frank Sinatra tribute on Monroe Street has become the city's most-photographed mural. Favale — a distant cousin of Sinatra's bandleader — spent two months researching archival photographs before executing the piece, which captures Sinatra at a 1942 recording session in a style that references classic black-and-white photographic portraiture.
Jade Rivera
Puerto Rican-American muralist whose North End work focuses on Hoboken's waterfront labor history — the longshoremen, the ferry workers, the women who waited. "Hudson Widows" takes its title from the informal name given to the wives of men lost in the river; the piece is painted on a building that was once a longshoreman's union hall.
Marco Gennari
Third-generation Italian-American Hoboken native whose Washington Street murals document the neighborhood's Italian immigrant heritage. Gennari works from his grandfather's photograph albums, from church records, and from the stories of the few remaining Little Italy residents — preserving, on brick walls, a community that has nearly disappeared from the streets it once defined.