Historic treasure at NYCHA housing complex is restored: ‘Something you’d see at Smithsonian’

Source: New York Post

A long-neglected 86-year-old work of art at a Brooklyn NYCHA complex has been restored to its former glory — and is now worthy of the Smithsonian, according to its champions. The stunning 80-foot-long concrete frieze, “Exodus and Dance,” was created in 1939 and installed in front of the Kingsborough Houses in the Weeksville section of Crown Heights — home to one of the nation’s first free black communities — two years later. 5 The stunning 80-foot-long frieze in front of NYCHA’s Kingsborough Houses in Brooklyn is worth the trip to see.