The Relighting Of The Belasco Theatre, "Femenella & Associates, Branchburg, NJ-based restoration specialists replicated new fixtures from the surviving examples." “When you walk in and see the lighting, you might imagine that it looked just this way when the theater was constructed,” Billington muses. “But of course today’s lighting program meets all current safety standards and regulations.” In the opinion of New York Times critic Charles Isherwood: “It is as beautiful as any theatre in the United States.”
A New East Window on Eldridge Street, “Earlier this month the Museum at Eldridge Street unveiled a new stained-glass window designed by the artist Kiki Smith and the architect Deborah Gans for its 1887 synagogue, which re-opened in 2007 after a 20-year restoration.”