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'Trendy' Brooklyn is really a figment of the imagination. When I lived in NYC in the 70s, Brooklyn was far from trendy, especially such venues as Bedford Stuyvesant, which was an unglorified slum.

This portrait is a definitive example of that honest desire to escape the hopelessness of such environment, proclaiming, appropriately, how far we have come with recognizing the importance of our fellow man . This mural presents a hopefulness and an intellectualism, of sorts, which says that people here are not ignorant, but, rather, always fighting to look upward. Its physical placement is wholly appropriate because its inner meaning transcends that paltry 'canvas'. - David Lyga

I can't argue with that.