Far out in the desert, meanwhile, an Italian team has just finished restoring a chapel in the Coptic monastery of St Anthony.
A decade ago, the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation finished restoring the structure from its limestone base to its hundred-foot copper-domed towers, transforming a neglected monument into the Ellis Island Museum of Immigration.
The women recently lined the sidewalks with flowerpots, and just last month the men finished restoring the original bandstand that sits at the community's heart.
The J. & R. Lamb Studios of Clifton, N.J., has just finished restoring the 38-foot-high main window of the Central Baptist Church at Amsterdam Avenue and 92nd Street.
Mr. Zimmerman, whose firm recently finished restoring the limestone of the Riverside Church in Morningside Heights, said that for decades refurbishment to London Terrace Gardens had been restricted to "Band-Aids".
Public Service Electric and Gas said it had essentially finished restoring power to customers who lost it during the hurricane and last week's snowstorm; fewer than 200 power failures surfaced Monday and were mostly dealt with by late afternoon.
Now that it has finished restoring the last of seven meadows, the Central Park Conservancy, the group that manages the park on behalf of the city, will turn its attention to its 21 playgrounds.
Melrose has already finished restoring many of the old Barbizon's distinctive features, like its detailed, neo-Gothic stonework and the wrought-iron grillwork on many of its windows.
Mr. Hancock had been born in the area, lived most of his life in Jacksonville, Fla., and moved back with his wife in 1991 to live next door to his youngest son, Lee. Lee Hancock, 49, and his wife had nearly finished restoring their 1900 farmhouse when the tornado crumpled it as they huddled in a doorway.
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