Good morning. It’s Monday. Today we’ll look at an unusual mural that just got a refresh. We’ll also meet a candidate who has joined the race for the House seat that Representative Jerrold Nadler is vacating.
Large murals need touch-ups after a while — perhaps not the all-out restoration that the frescoes in the Sistine Chapel got after 400 years, but some primer and paint on little worn spots.
That will explain why a thicket of scaffolds and ladders went up in the West Village last week, and why a swarm of people climbed on. They leaned and reached with paintbrushes dipped in familiar, eye-popping colors, brightening up what they see as a four-block-long mural.
Another way to describe the installation is as a long line of loading-dock doors — corrugated-metal garage doors at a UPS facility that went from boring to bold in 2022, painted in colors like Miami Green and Bahama Sea Blue. As he did touch-ups with a shade called Berry Wine Oriole, one of the painters, Alan Weng, said, “Anything can always use a fresh coat of color.”
Weng works for Publicolor, a nonprofit that runs programs for students at risk of dropping out of school. Hudson Square Properties, which runs 13 buildings, including the one across the street from the UPS garage, turned to Publicolor to give the neighborhood a more appealing look.
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