Washington Heights residents are all too familiar with the dreary 900-foot long tunnel that connects Broadway and St. Nicholas Avenue at the 191st Street station. It's a notoriously grim and seemingly interminable corridor, but at long last the city is doing something to try to freshen it up. Today the DOT is revealing a radical new look for the tunnel, having commissioned six artists— Andrea von Bujdoss (aka "Queen Andrea"); Fernando Carlo, Jr. (aka “Cope 2”); Nick Kuszyk; Nelson Rivas (aka “Cekis”); and Jessie Unterhalter and Katey Truhn—to paint murals to make straphangers' commute slightly less soul-crushing.

The murals will be unveiled later today, but here's a sneak peek, from the DOT and the artists themselves:

Here's another sneak peek at the new #streetart in the #191st St Tunnel! #DOTArt pic.twitter.com/XorzHw2q9y
— NYC DOT (@NYC_DOT) May 18, 2015

We cannot wait to show you the progress in the #191st St Tunnel! Here's a sneak peek from last week #streetart pic.twitter.com/pS22iC2eza
— NYC DOT (@NYC_DOT) May 18, 2015

The Department of Homeland Development is allowing hooligans to #beautify the 191st St. 1 train station tunnel!!! I'm one of em. @mrcope2_artist @el_cekis @jessie_and_katey @queenandreaone #dot #191beautificationproject #hiphop #artmath
A photo posted by Nick Kuszyk (@rrobots) on May 16, 2015 at 7:03pm PDT

Painting base coats today for my 150-foot long mural at the entrance of the 191st St. train station. What an honor to be selected to rock this incredible site, with such stellar fellow artists!!! ✨✨ #uptown #letsgo #191beautificationproject @mrcope2_artist @jessie_and_katey @rrobots @el_cekis #graffiti #typography #popart #streetart #graffitiart #gobigorgohome #manhattan #nyc #holyshit #huge #MTA @alanket @isoking #wooot✨
A photo posted by QueenAndrea! (@queenandreaone) on May 12, 2015 at 7:46pm PDT

@queenandreaone @isoking #wanecod rockin the #191beautificationproject they going in killing it #theheights #broadway #graffitiart #streetart #MTA #DOT #nycart #nycsubways #nycgraffiti #legend @montanacans
A photo posted by Fernando Cope2 Carlo Jr (@mrcope2_artist) on May 17, 2015 at 5:01pm PDT

On an up note @jordankaseyjordankasey is the best!!!
A photo posted by Jessie Unterhalter/Katey Truhn (@jessie_and_katey) on May 17, 2015 at 6:50pm PDT

this week
A photo posted by Nelson Rivas Cekis (@el_cekis) on May 11, 2015 at 8:48am PDT

Wow—and this is what it looked like before:

Via NYC DOT