The Belasco Theatre
In October 1907, David Belasco opened the Belasco Theatre as the Stuyvesant. Belasco had already bestowed his name on his 42nd Street theatre, which is now the New Victory. In 1910, when he gave up the 42nd Street Theatre, he renamed the Stuyvesant the Belasco. He lived in a duplex apartment above the theatre that was designed in the style of a Gothic church. After his death, the theatre was believed to be haunted by Belasco’s ghost until it was…