Two years ago to the day that New York City embarked on a $94 million restoration of the Loew's Kings Theatre in Flatbush, the institution reopened its doors and reclaimed its standing as Brooklyn's largest theater . The restoration was painstaking: when it began in 2013, the theater had already been sitting vacant for four decades , a time during which looters plundered everything that wasn't bolted down , and nature found its way into the neglected structure.