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

Nicole Rosenthal
Sun, 24 Aug 2025 15:42:09 -0400

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.