Complex sentence: Born in New York City, Troyanos spent her earliest days in the Manhattan neighborhood where Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Opera's new home, would arise a quarter century later, and grew up in Forest Hills, Queens, where she attended Forest Hills High School.
Split into simpler sentences: Born in New York City, Troyanos spent her earliest days in the Manhattan neighborhood where Lincoln Center, the new home of the Metropolitan Opera, would arise a quarter century later. She grew up in Forest Hills, Queens, where she attended Forest Hills High School.