There is nothing about Sylvia Hernandez’s colorful quilts that is posturing, nor is the work ingratiating, playing up hackneyed tokens of Hispanic heritage.
Flatbush
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An Art Collector’s Dream of a String of Caribbean Museums Starts in Flatbush
It’s a long subway ride from Manhattan’s Upper East Side — where some of the world’s most ornate apartment buildings stand amid a gulch of world-class cultural institutions — to the Brooklyn neighborhood of Flatbush, where the Philip Howard Apartments loom over the patchwork of new commercial real estate that has blanketed the neighborhood in the past decade.
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A Second Act for Brooklyn’s Extravagant Kings Theatre
“Brooklyn, the county of kings, has cleaned off its crown, and it’s the Kings Theatre,” Borough President Eric Adams proclaimed during the ribbon-cutting ceremony.