New York City will begin painting a large Black Lives Matter mural along Fifth Avenue outside Trump Tower on Thursday, sources told The Post.
Mayor Bill de Blasio plans to attend the project at some point as well, the source said. The text will stretch between streets 56 and 57 right in front of Trump’s tall building in Manhattan.
The mayor had planned to start working on the mural last week but postponed the painting a day after President Trump condemned the idea as “a symbol of hatred.”
“NYC cuts $ Police by ONE BILLION DOLLARS, but @NYCMayor will paint the big, expensive, yellow Black Lives Matter sign on Fifth Avenue, patronizing this fancy Avenue,” Trump write in a series of tweets Last Wednesday morning.
“Maybe our HOT Police, who have been neutralized and insulted by a mayor who hates & disrespects them, will not let this symbol of hatred be put up on New York’s biggest streets,” Trump continued. “Spend this money against evil!”
De Blasio push back then that morning, tweeting, “The fact that you see it lowering your path is the definition of racism.”
“Black people BUILT 5th Ave and many of this nation,” added the mayor. “Your luxury” comes from THEIR work, for which they never get fair compensation. We respect them. “
WNBC first reported a new start date for the Trump Tower mural Wednesday night.
The mural is among several cities that have committed to painting in about five areas and came after the same mural was completed in Flatbush, Brooklyn, and St. George, Staten Island.
