A post-fire renovation four years ago gave the dining area an Artie Bucco sheen — cream color-washed walls, framed prints of grapevines and ancient urns — but the place still has a little Tony Manero left over.
The following year it was severely damaged by fire, but renovation work continued toward the goal of reopening the ship to the public in time for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London.
The two major restaurants are the Little York Inn in Little York and the fieldstone-clad Pittstown Inn, which has been open since 1760, not counting fires and renovations.
They also added a shopping arcade, called the Royal Opera Arcade, which has survived fires and renovations and still exists.
Ms. Baldassari came under fire before the renovation even began, when the Picassos started circulating abroad nine months before the museum closed in 2009.
Local television reports earlier pinned blame for the fire on "careless" renovation in the basement of the six-story building, a maze of shops and narrow corridors that failed a fire safety test just a week ago.
An announcement by City Ballet said that Mr. Gergiev had cited exhaustion and the demands of running the Maryinsky in a difficult year that has included a warehouse fire and major renovation projects.
When the new owners stripped away a fire-scorched lobby renovation, decades old, they discovered what was left of the original lobby, the northern end of which had disappeared into the trade center void.
But the cathedral's renovation drew fire from some local opponents early on.
Getting inside Mrs. Schade's recently rebuilt mansion (which replaced a historic Tudor-style house that burned in a fire two years ago during a renovation) was almost everybody's real reason for plunking down $45, although few people were tacky enough to mention it.
He is in his 23rd year bending over the fire to duplicate hardware for renovation purists, restoration companies and sometimes for makers of historical movies.
