“It’s really a shame,” said Perlman, who recently rediscovered a long-lost World’s Fair-era mural in a Massachusetts basement. “These mosaics were put here as a tribute decades after the ...

Perlman says preservationists have been banging the drum for 15 years to rescue the deteriorating Passerelle Plaza Mosaics, but their pleas have fallen on deaf ears.

A 39-foot mural by Andre Durenceau was found in a Massachusetts basement last month, 50 years after it vanished. Perlman, 42, was operating on little more than hope that the mural had somehow ...