Richard Haas created this public art project near Hecht Slip, a mural on a Con Edison substation. Haas used oil paints to replicate elements of old photographs of architecture in Manhattan. The mural was redone in silicate paint after 9/11, when the electric company had to break through the wall in order to rewire generators. The project was sponsored by Con Edison and the organization City Walls.
On the northern side of Peck Slip you can see a ConEd power station, next and around the 1808 Jasper Ward house, facing South Street. The power station itself was designed to match the district. The mural, commissioned by ConEd in 1978, was made by renown muralist Richard Haas, and it is entitled "Peck Slip Arcade."
