The next installment in a series of recent murals will feature prominent people from Rahway’s history on the side of a four-story building near the Linden border.
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.City Council approved a resolution (AR-129-24) at its May 13 regular meeting awarding a $28,000 contract to DistoArt, LLC. to design and install a 1,500-square-foot mural on the east side of a self-storage facility at 2255 Elizabeth Ave.
.DistoArt, LLC. has created several large murals in Jersey City, including a massive one on Mecca trucking company’s building outside the Holland Tunnel; another prominently visible from the 14th Street Viaduct in Hoboken; and, at the Liberty Humane Society building in Newark. You can find DistoArt’s work on Instagram.
A rendering of the mural on the east side of the Extra Space Storage building is themed, “Rahway: Home to Innovation,” featuring images of Nikola Tesla, who opened Tesla Electric Light & Manufacturing on Irving Street in the 19th century; Carl Sagan, a 1951 graduate of Rahway High School who won the Nobel Prize in 1977; and, Jeannette E. Brown, a researcher and biochemist at Merck.
The mural would be completed by Sept. 30, according to an agreement between the city and DistoArt.
The four-story building is among the locations that the governing body approved agreements with property owners to permit murals to be painted. The other two were properties adjacent to Rahway Arts District Park at the corner of Irving Street and Central Avenue that now feature a wrap-around mural of flowering plant species that are native to Rahway.
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