(At the Tompkins Square Park protest in 1988, rioters screamed “Die, yuppie scum!” at Christodora dwellers and pillaged the lobby.) Two decades later, passions have cooled, but the neighborhood-and its dwellings-are still pretty colorful. The Christodora, he points out, has had a tumultuous history, starting life as a twenties settlement house for low-income families before becoming an emblem of the East Village in the throes of gentrification. A kaleidoscope (/ k l a d s k o p /) is an optical instrument with two or more reflecting surfaces (or mirrors) tilted to each other at an angle, so that one or more (parts of) objects on one end of the mirrors are seen as a regular symmetrical pattern when viewed from the other end, due to repeated reflection.The reflectors are usually enclosed in a tube, often containing on one. (The color options are “virtually unlimited,” says one client.) Sanders sees the lighting design as something of a metaphor for neighborhood transformation. The result: a 1,140-square-foot loft that-with the push of one of eight preset buttons-is bathed in pale neon pink, or warm gold, or lime green. “It was neglected, but it had good bones,” says Sanders, who was about to begin renovating when his clients decided to buy the one-bedroom next door as well. After looking at more than 50 places, the couple found what would become their future retirement pad (and current pied-à-terre)-a one-bedroom in the Christodora, a landmarked condo building overlooking Tompkins Square Park on Avenue B. Architect Joel Sanders’s clients (a lawyer and an economic consultant) left New York for San Francisco a decade ago but knew they’d come back someday-preferably to an apartment below 14th Street that felt like a “well-designed hotel suite.” How about an East Village loft with LED fixtures that cast a Day-Glo aura on the walls? Perfect. Welcoming Muhammad Usman to Kaleidoscope Properties team and his experience in Real Estate Market in Dubai will add great value to the customers.