Someone painted over this brand new mural on 12th Street and Avenue C

Earlier this week, Brooklyn-based artist Michela Muserra finished a new mural on the SW corner of 12th Street and Avenue C — aka the 12C Outdoor Gallery.  This morning, residents awoke to find that someone had hastily (and inexplicably) whited out the mural. We’re told the white paint was still wet. A block source told us that a few parents and students from the Children’s Workshop School “were standing in front of it, openly sad and almost weeping that something so beautiful got destroyed.”  We hear that residents filed a police report … and were told that “the perps” were captured on multiple surveillance cameras and could charged with criminal mischief.  Muserra titled the work “Despues de la lluvia” (“After the rain”), a sister mural to one that she created in Caguas, Puerto Rico.  This morning, she reacted to the vandalism in an Instagram post: “Oh well, not mad to be honest. I can redo that in a matter of hours, not even worried about the paint. That is not the problem. The problem is their miserable life where apparently the most exciting thing is to go over other people’s work. A work done for the community.” The work was...