The central courtyard of the Hispanic Society of America is seen in the Washington Heights section of New York, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Located in the upper reaches of Manhattan’s Washington Heights neighborhood, the Hispanic Society of America is an imposing museum and research library that is quietly becoming one of New York’s hidden gems.
It has a world-class collection of Iberian art that includes works from such masters as Goya, Velazquez and El Greco, and monumental sculptures by Anna Hyatt Huntington, the wife of the society’s founder.
Yet the 104-year-old institution in Washington Heights, just blocks from the Audubon Ballroom where Malcolm X was assassinated, is not high on the itinerary of many tourists — or even New Yorkers. Some don’t even know it exists.
The Society had briefly contemplated abandoning the area for more tourist-accessible locations downtown like some of its former neighbors: the American Numismatic Society and the Museum of the American Indian. But it has resolved to stay.
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