[1][2] Between 1981 and 1985, Ahearn, together with Torres, created four sculptural murals for the sides of tenement buildings: We Are Family, Life on Dawson Street, Double Dutch, and Back to School.

For instance, the artwork Double Dutch (1981/2010), previously cited, is featured in the holdings of Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida.

[4] Ahearn's 1991 survey of portraits of ordinary people was called South Bronx Hall of Fame.

He thought of Paseo de la Reforma, but instead of heroes, he decided to immortalize people he knew.

Ahearn made bronze statues of three black people from his South Bronx neighborhood: Raymond and his pit bull, Daleesha and her roller skates, and Corey and his boom box and basketball.