Good morning on this chilly Tuesday.

You might have stepped on several.

They’re pink, blue, yellow and green, and drawn in a single swoop.

They’re hearts, ranging from the size of a quarter to the size of a quarter block, and for about three years, a street artist has anonymously drawn as many as 100 a day on the sidewalks of downtown Manhattan.

We got a tip, and tracked him down.

Hash Halper, 38, drew his first hearts in 2014 while working at Kossar’s Bagels & Bialys on the Lower East Side, he said. “The reason I started drawing hearts all over the city is because I fell in love with a woman.”

Mr. Halper was raised in modern Orthodox communities in Philadelphia and Washington Heights, and attended Yeshiva University before becoming less religious in his 20s and later finding work at the bagel store.