NEW YORK (AP) β A once gilded Brooklyn movie palace that’s been crumbling for decades is back β a gem from the 1920s reborn.
Diana Ross headlines Tuesday’s opening of the 3,200-seat Kings Theatre in the Flatbush neighborhood where a teenage Barbra Streisand spent afternoons enjoying double-features.
After a two-year, $95 million renovation, Kings is now the biggest theater in New York’s largest borough.
Every detail from its 1929 jazz age incarnation has returned amid computerized sound and LED lighting.
And the pigeons that left droppings inches deep on the stage are gone.
The theater has a goal that reaches beyond its walls: to be an economic engine for a neighborhood that has survived a roller-coaster of crime and decay.
Future programs will feature Gladys Knight, Crosby, Stills & Nash and Sarah McLachlan.
