Support Our Bills for a study on NYers' rights to free admission to city institutions
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Pat Nicholson
3 years ago
Young and mature New York City residents ... at least since the mid-1800's ... were to have free access and instruction rights. It has been in the failure of City administrators and institution stewards to codify and comply with the intention and meaning of the controlling laws. New Yorkers should be ...safe... all the time and not just summers.
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Pat Nicholson
3 years ago
Get friends and family to sign the Petition to sign and from there your ... joining ... will not be needed. Being a New York City resident is all that you will need to ...join this club ....
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Pat Nicholson
3 years ago
In the mid-1800's, Andrew Green, a Board of Education President and Governor of Central Park, advocated for free access and instruction ...really, an aid to education... as a reciprocity for the huge cost to New Yorkers for the surrendering of public park land and the construction of buildings thereon. For instance, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History, are 2,000,000 sq.ft. of physical plan sitting on the most expensive real estate ... Central Park and its surrounding area ... and neither pays rent yet they charge a pay-what-you-wish admission policy fee. With the passage of the study bills ... get your friends and family to sign to broaden support ... the institutions will have to codify and then publish the facts of New Yorkers' free access and instruction rights, and the intended purpose of the park education campus will finally become instinctual for all New Yorkers.
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Pat Nicholson
3 years ago
According to the provisions of the laws.
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Pat Nicholson
3 years ago
The laws of a mid-1800's public-private partnership are ...right...but for 150 years, no City administration codified and then enforced these laws. The study bill call for this analysis and requires a report with recommendations be prepared and provided one year from the bills' passage. Please urge family and friends to sign the Petition so that the sponsors' have our support behind them when seeking passage of the bills.
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Pat Nicholson
3 years ago
It is actually it is the express terms of the provisions of the laws shaping a mid-1800's public-private partnership that provide New Yorkers' right to free access and instruction. Please urge your friends and family to sign the Petition so the sponsors understand that their electorate want to to support this effort on our behalf.
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Pat Nicholson
3 years ago
Many New York City non-profit cultural institutions receive taxpayer funding. What is unique about the 17 park institutions is that they are subject to a mid-1800's public-private partnership whereby the institutions were provided rent-free use of City-owned building and park land in exchange for free access and instruction, as provided by law. Today, these institutions receive in excess of $700 Million annually in free rent in buildings on precious park land. However, for more than 150 years, no City administration has codified and published and enforced the provisions of the public-private partnership and the study bills call for this analysis to be reported and commented on within one year of passage. Please urge family and friends to sign the Petition to demonstrate New Yorkers' interest in ensuring our benefit from the laws intended to preserve our cultural legacy.
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Pat Nicholson
3 years ago
This effort is more than a ...good idea.... It is a ...push...to get laws and contracts in effect disavowing New Yorkers' free rights, a reciprocity for our $1 Billion in free-rent in City-owned buildings on public park land. The Petition is nearing the 1,000 mark. Please urge your family and friends to sign the Petition so New Yorkers' demonstrate their insistence that our free rights are codified and enforced.
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Pat Nicholson
3 years ago
Petition nearing 1,000. Please urge others to sign. Free admission to the 17 park institutions is according to the provisions of laws and contracts. Today, these institutions accept $1 Billion in direct and indirect subsidies while they require us to pay fixed amount of pay-what-you-wish admission fees. The purpose of the study bills is to codify the facts of New Yorkers' ...free rights..., to have them published so New Yorkers are aware of our rights and then have them enforce with these institutions' policies and practices.
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Anonymous
3 years ago
It's the least the city can do for its residents.
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berto chun
3 years ago
Good idea
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Michael McSherry
3 years ago
If they receive taxpayer funds. Admission should be free for residents
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Juan Torres
3 years ago
NY money to operate then new yorkers get in
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Anonymous
3 years ago
You are right.
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Jeanne Brennan
3 years ago
yes to museum
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Mariela Ruiz
3 years ago
This should. So we can appreciate NYC at it's best form
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Abdul Rashid
3 years ago
Wanted to join
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Holmes-Baber
3 years ago
Parents are paying their high price rent, food, clothes and utilities bill and can't pay for entertainment for their family in today's society.
Please help today's families keep their children safe this summer!
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Richard B Kahn
3 years ago
I am especially interested in the Frick acknowledging that Frick, himself, murdered strikers rather than his mansion being on Lenape land.
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Sharon Gaston
3 years ago
Not a NYC resident at this time, but do believe this is the way it should be. Clean it up, NYC, and I'll be back!
Young and mature New York City residents ... at least since the mid-1800's ... were to have free access and instruction rights. It has been in the failure of City administrators and institution stewards to codify and comply with the intention and meaning of the controlling laws. New Yorkers should be ...safe... all the time and not just summers.
Get friends and family to sign the Petition to sign and from there your ... joining ... will not be needed. Being a New York City resident is all that you will need to ...join this club ....
In the mid-1800's, Andrew Green, a Board of Education President and Governor of Central Park, advocated for free access and instruction ...really, an aid to education... as a reciprocity for the huge cost to New Yorkers for the surrendering of public park land and the construction of buildings thereon. For instance, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History, are 2,000,000 sq.ft. of physical plan sitting on the most expensive real estate ... Central Park and its surrounding area ... and neither pays rent yet they charge a pay-what-you-wish admission policy fee. With the passage of the study bills ... get your friends and family to sign to broaden support ... the institutions will have to codify and then publish the facts of New Yorkers' free access and instruction rights, and the intended purpose of the park education campus will finally become instinctual for all New Yorkers.
According to the provisions of the laws.
The laws of a mid-1800's public-private partnership are ...right...but for 150 years, no City administration codified and then enforced these laws. The study bill call for this analysis and requires a report with recommendations be prepared and provided one year from the bills' passage. Please urge family and friends to sign the Petition so that the sponsors' have our support behind them when seeking passage of the bills.
It is actually it is the express terms of the provisions of the laws shaping a mid-1800's public-private partnership that provide New Yorkers' right to free access and instruction. Please urge your friends and family to sign the Petition so the sponsors understand that their electorate want to to support this effort on our behalf.
Many New York City non-profit cultural institutions receive taxpayer funding. What is unique about the 17 park institutions is that they are subject to a mid-1800's public-private partnership whereby the institutions were provided rent-free use of City-owned building and park land in exchange for free access and instruction, as provided by law. Today, these institutions receive in excess of $700 Million annually in free rent in buildings on precious park land. However, for more than 150 years, no City administration has codified and published and enforced the provisions of the public-private partnership and the study bills call for this analysis to be reported and commented on within one year of passage. Please urge family and friends to sign the Petition to demonstrate New Yorkers' interest in ensuring our benefit from the laws intended to preserve our cultural legacy.
This effort is more than a ...good idea.... It is a ...push...to get laws and contracts in effect disavowing New Yorkers' free rights, a reciprocity for our $1 Billion in free-rent in City-owned buildings on public park land. The Petition is nearing the 1,000 mark. Please urge your family and friends to sign the Petition so New Yorkers' demonstrate their insistence that our free rights are codified and enforced.
Petition nearing 1,000. Please urge others to sign. Free admission to the 17 park institutions is according to the provisions of laws and contracts. Today, these institutions accept $1 Billion in direct and indirect subsidies while they require us to pay fixed amount of pay-what-you-wish admission fees. The purpose of the study bills is to codify the facts of New Yorkers' ...free rights..., to have them published so New Yorkers are aware of our rights and then have them enforce with these institutions' policies and practices.
It's the least the city can do for its residents.
Good idea
If they receive taxpayer funds. Admission should be free for residents
NY money to operate then new yorkers get in
You are right.
yes to museum
This should. So we can appreciate NYC at it's best form
Wanted to join
Parents are paying their high price rent, food, clothes and utilities bill and can't pay for entertainment for their family in today's society. Please help today's families keep their children safe this summer!
I am especially interested in the Frick acknowledging that Frick, himself, murdered strikers rather than his mansion being on Lenape land.
Not a NYC resident at this time, but do believe this is the way it should be. Clean it up, NYC, and I'll be back!