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Support Our Bills for a study on NYers' rights to free admission to city institutions

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Wai Ching Chan
3 years ago

Our family need it

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Kristina Reed
3 years ago

Flyers should be handed out to impoverished neighborhoods in multiple languages

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Marion Harris
3 years ago

Yes should happen!

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Yvonne Albino
3 years ago

I remember when It was free to go to the museums and botanic gardens.

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Yolanda Magwood
3 years ago

I NEED THIS

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Pat Nicholson
3 years ago

Laws and contract provide the facts but they have been obscured for 150 years, thus, the need for the joint study bill. Please ask friends and family to sign as well to show appreciation for the sponsoring legislators.

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Shekebea Wright
3 years ago

This places need to be free for NYC residents.

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Pat Nicholson
3 years ago

Laws and contracts spell out Nee Yorkers' free rights but the stewards of the institutions have in effect disavowed them and City oversight agencies have obstructed them. The study called fir in the mutual bills is vital to codifying and then enforcing Nee ayorkers' rightd. Ask families and friends to sign the Petition as wemm, to show appreciation to the sponsors doing work on our behalf.

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Pat Nicholson
3 years ago

Your vote for Mayor and City Council members is the best way to have a boice locally recognizing that State oversight is needed to eventually keep the game straight.

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Lauren Donner
3 years ago

Let’s do this with more performing arts as well

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Lorraine Liriano
3 years ago

We pay one of the highest taxes in the country. We have one of the highest rents in the would access to cultural institutions should be free for us

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Pat Nicholson
3 years ago

Yes. And mid-19th century Central Park Commissioner and President of the then-City school system Andrew Green made it a prerequisite for oublic funding that the provisions of the public-private partnership provide for free access and instruction. See the PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP section on the hyperlinked website and have family and friends sign the Petition to demonstrate support of the State Legislature sponsors' efforts on our behalf.

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Pat Nicholson
3 years ago

Yes. Direct and indirect subsidies now approximate $1 Billion annually with mire than $700 Millionnin free rent yet City leaders have obscured the facts of New Yorkers' free access right and authorize policies requiring New Yorkers to pay a fixed or pay-what-you-wish admission fee. Visit the website hyperlinked and urge your family and friends to sign the Petition as well, demonstrating support for the shared-bills' soonsors acting on our behalf.

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Anonymous
3 years ago

Access is knowledge.

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Anonymous
3 years ago

We pay enough taxes to deserve it.

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Pat Nicholson
3 years ago

Please ask your family and friends to sign as well so we can demonstrate appreciation for the effoerts of the shared-bill's sponsors.

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Pat Nicholson
3 years ago

According to the laws arising from a mid-1800's public-private partnership.

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Pat Nicholson
3 years ago

There are laws and contracts providing the terms of New Yorkers free rights. The study will codify the facts and make recommendations to ensure the institutions comply.

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Anonymous
3 years ago

About time! As a lifelong New Yorker, senior citizen, and retired craftsperson I’ve always felt priced out of these institutions. It’s ironic that I made my living for 45 years as a potter and couldn’t justify the cost of more than one or two museum visits a year, and those usually as a host to friends visiting from out of town. Tourists see more of these institutions than those that actually live here do. I hope this passes!

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Bonnie Winokur
3 years ago

This is the least we can get for all the taxes we pay.