In a message dated 03/28/2000 6:16:29 AM Pacific Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: << there's a better story told if the repairs patina is slowly catching up with the new.. >> When Brooklyn Borough Hall had the Humor Czar as a fulltime resident I understand that the random assortment of marble dutchmen were too white for the remainder of the original facade, making Howard Golden (Borough President) unhappy that the building looked sickly, and resulted, thanks in very small part to Apple, in the entire facade being abraded with glass beads in order to give an homogenous coloration to the building and to hide the new work from the old. ][<en