Long-lost Keith Haring mural that spent decades hidden behind drywall hits market in $25M Tribeca loft

For years, downtown diners ate dinner a few feet from a Keith Haring and had no clue.Now that long-buried mural, painted by the pop art icon back when he was a broke art student, is the main attraction in a $25 million Tribeca triplex that just landed on the market.The 8,000-square-foot maisonette sits inside the American Thread Building at 260 West Broadway, a Renaissance Revival landmark built in 1896.Ian Slater, Michael Koeneke and Eduardo Martinez of Trove Partners at Compass are shopping the seven-bedroom, nine-bathroom spread.There’s just one wrinkle for buyers.

The Haring stays put.“It’s a piece of New York City’s art history that can never be recreated or moved,” owner Adam Zoia told The Post.Haring made the black-and-white work in 1979, when he was enrolled at the School of Visual Arts and the school ran a student gallery out of the building’s lower floor.He didn’t splurge on supplies.

The future art star brushed on a homemade concoction of black shoe polish and alcohol, sending his trademark tangle of lines across two walls, the ceiling and a cast iron column that helps hold up the building.“The Keith Haring mural is one of a kind,” Zoia said, adding that “it’s in a corner painted on both walls and even the ceiling, its scale is large, it’s painted in part over a cast iron column and it was painted by Keith before he was famous when he was only 20.”The piece very nearly vanished.After SVA cleared out in the early 1980s, the space was turned into a restaurant and the mural was sealed behind sheetrock, where it sat in the dark for decades.

That cover turned out to be a lucky break, shielding the fragile work until the unit’s previous owners tore into the walls during a 2007 renovation and found it largely intact.The Keith Haring Foundation later confirmed the unsigned piece as an early Haring.Zoia, the CEO of Glocap Tech, snapped up the loft in 2021 and spent two years gutting it.

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