The New York Post reports that Dominican artist Néstor Omar García, 48, who works under the name "Angurria," transformed the side of a 29-story NYCHA tower at 3145 Park Ave. in Melrose into what the paper calls the tallest mural in America at 307 feet.

According to the Post, he had no idea he was making history until he was already painting: "At first, I just knew it was a big wall," he said through his interpreter wife Venus, learning only in stages that it was the biggest mural in the Bronx, then New York City, then the United States.

What makes the development striking, per the New York Post's account, is that the record was discovered mid-project rather than planned.

The paper says García spearheaded the work over 22 grueling days alongside fellow artists Johann "Dovente" Baez and Mario "Son Coro" Resende, putting in 11- and 12-hour shifts.

The Post also reports the logistical ordeal: permits took five months, the climb to the top of the scaffolding took 20 to 25 minutes, and forgetting a tool on the ground could cost almost an hour — leading García to say it "felt more like an engineering project than an art project."

The Post details the sheer materials consumed — roughly 700 spray-paint cans, dozens of gallons of acrylic paint and 30 gallons of protective sealant — on the artwork titled "Un MAR de Gente / From Every Shore," commissioned by the public-art nonprofit ArtBridge.

According to the Post, the design was shaped by six community meetings with residents and is divided into three sections: a grandmother carrying her granddaughter on her shoulders at the top, a multicultural block party in the middle, and two children playing around an open fire hydrant at the bottom, representing the past, present and future.

The rewards, as the New York Post tells it, were human rather than commercial. García said residents brought the painters food, coffee and water, and told the artists, "Thank you for making us feel like we matter."

The paper reports the mural now celebrates Bronx life on a public-housing development at Park Avenue and East 158th Street, giving a housing tower a civic landmark.

As broader context, GraffitiStreet's same-day spotlight on British artist Phlegm notes how murals by self-published comic artists now occupy walls, silos and public spaces worldwide — a sign that large-scale street art keeps finding new monumental expressions.

García's immediate reaction to finishing America's tallest mural was, as he told the New York Post with a laugh, simply relief: "I didn't have to go up there anymore."

Meanwhile, GraffitiStreet's spotlight on Phlegm illustrates the genre's continuing evolution, with the British artist's monochrome, comics-derived murals absorbing architecture into the composition itself.