3/27/2023 0 Comments Patina green color![]() ![]() Velasquez’s boss, Peter Magistro, chose the color for his company’s signature trim fifteen or twenty years ago. Later, as Velasquez and I walked through Morris Heights, I noticed a lot of buildings with fire escapes of that particular green, or variations on it. Now I saw how the contrasting Statue of Liberty green trim set off the brown or clay-yellow brickwork of the buildings, making them appear elegantly turned out, as if for review in an apartment-building parade. Forty years ago, when I lived in a loft on Canal Street, my fire escape was a faded red, as were many fire escapes, as many still are. When I heard the name of the color, the fire escapes popped into focus for the first time. Sometimes the right words can transform your eyes. “You can always tell Bronx Pro buildings because we paint our fire escapes and window trim Statue of Liberty green.” “That building is ours, and so is that one, and that,” he said, pointing up and down Andrews Avenue South. The next phase would be to continue the painting onto the roof of the building across the street. We strolled around on the painting, examining it. Now the heat-reflecting paint would help cool the building in summer, and the design’s images stood out in satellite photos of the city seen from above. A designer had given him a plan on paper and he had successfully transposed it to the fifteen-thousand-square-foot roof. Edwin Velasquez, a young man who works for Bronx Pro Group, a developer of affordable housing, was showing me a roof painting he had superintended. ![]() That elusive, flickering, familiar, sea-polished shade of copper-green got into my head last year when I was standing on the roof of an apartment building in the Bronx. Recently I’ve been thinking about the color of the Statue of Liberty. When you have the Statue’s green on the brain, you see it everywhere. ![]()
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