Audubon Mural Project

The project is the brainchild of Washington Heights art gallery owner Avi Gitler.

Mark Jannot, vice president for content of the National Audubon Society and a Hamilton Heights resident, collaborates with Gitler.

[2] The project began when Gitler invited a street artist to paint one of the roll-down shutters on his block; the artist chose to depict a flamingo, and Gitlin immediately decided to reference the neighborhood history by creating a series on Audubon's birds.

[1][3] Audubon's home, a two-story frame house on an estate called Minniesland, was located near the Hudson River at what is now 156th Street.

Some cover enormous walls, other fill small, inset panels in windows and doorways.