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

We are new to New York but in our short time as residents we have visited every Zoo and almost ever museum and have paid admission for all of them. My partner and I often have conversations about how the admission fees are being used as most of the children museums are not upgraded or refreshed. I work in real estate and to see the data of their operating expenses and free rent is eye opening and I do believe with the cost of living in NY and the amount of families, we would all benefit tremendously if this bill is passed

They should be free for NYC residence. I have grandchildren that I can’t afford to take them to these institutions. It’s a shame.

NYC is expensive

Generally, Washington museums are part of the government-owned Smithsonian Institute. The 17 New York City park institutions are part of a public-private partnership where the collections belong to the privqte organization and not the government. Nonetheless, there are laws and contracts providing thevtrrms of New Yorjers' right to free admission and instruction in exchange for the institutions' rent-free use of City-owned park land and buildings. Pkease encourage family and friends to sign the Petition to show support for the spinsors of two Bills seeking a study to codify the kaws and contracts and to nake recommendations to ensure New Yorkers free access rights are endorced.

We need free entrance to museums and events same like in Washington DC. There is many families who can't afford the tickets including me. The NYPL is helping in this issue but definitely have to be extended to all New Yorkers.

The subsidies each park institution receives generally is determined by NYC's Department of Cultural Affairs. However, the Parks Department in effect has a cost-plus agreement with the Wildlife Conservation Society to operate the Bronx, Central Park, Prospect Park and Queens Zoos and New York Aquarium.

There are laws setting out the terms of free admission and instruction for New Yorkers. These laws structured a public-private partnership and apply to park institutions who receive rent-free use of City-owned park land and buildings.

New York City must allow NYC residents free admission to all the NYC institutions,gardens, art museums and music venues.ETC..

Many of these museums have been well endowed for years.

It should be free for four to five days a week for the general public. But the City entered a 2013 or thereabouts authorizing The Met to disallow the mid-19th century provisions make up a public-private partnershio. It is the ambiguity of The Met's admission policies and the veracity of whether the Bloomberg administration had the authority to enter into the 2013 agreement that begs a study of the facts of New Yorkers' free rights as the 17 park institutions, including The Met, charge New Yorkers a fixed amount pay-what-you-wish fee though admission should be free. Please ask your friends and family to sign the Petition to demonstrate support of the soonsors of the two bills calling for a study.

I thought it was free at the Met.

And the laws provide for New Yorkers' rights. Please ask your friends and family to sign the Petition, as well, to support the efforts of the Petition's sponsoring legislators.

If you are a New York City resident, the campaign is beyond a "great idea". It is to provide New Yorkers the knowledge we need to know the facts of our rights to free access and instruction in exchange for our $1 Billion annual subsidies and to ensure that the supervising City agencies are instructed to ensure that New Yorkers' free rights are followed by the 17 park institutions.

For some of the institutions, provisions of free admission and instruction specifically identify teachers and professors of public schools and/or institutions where education is provide for free, during all operating hours. The purpose of the mid-1800's public-private partnership was for the park institutions to meld into a "park education campus" and "aid" New York City's education system. Encourage your colleagues, family and friends to sign the Petition to show support of the effort to study the facts of New Yorkers' rights and then publish and ensure that the institutions' admissions policies comply.

As a New York resident you are entitled to free admission to these publicly-funded park institutions. Recently, NYBG [if you mean New York Botanical Garden] did an end-run around Governor Cuomo-vetoed request for repeal of the free admission provisions of the mid-18th century laws by proposing another bill. Governor Hochul signed that bill and it will take effect in 2025. New Yorkers should challenge Hochul's actions. The two bills the Petition promotes will require that a study be done of the laws and contracts providing New Yorkers' free rights across the five boroughs, including the two Bronx institutions your mention. Based on the research presented on the Free Admission campaign website ... www.nyersfreeadmission.org under Park Institutions, you will learn what the study aims to verify.

Your comment justifies the study the two Bills the Petition asks New Yorkers to sign to show support. There is a legal structure to a mid-1800's public-private partnership providing free admission and instruction to New Yorkers in exchange for rent-free occupancy of City-owned buildings on valued park land. Over 150 years, however, the City and the park institutions entered agreements that in effect disavow the laws. The Bills provide for a "study" of the laws, policies and practices pertaining to the 17 institutions and will make recommendations in one year. Please encourage you friends and family to sign the Petition to demonstrate that New Yorkers' want to know the facts and benefit from the reciprocity owed to us in light of our $1 Billion annual subsidies.

I pay my taxes here and museums should remain free for residents. Let tourists and out of towners foot the bill as well as tax our large corporations.

I always paid a small donation to certain museum.s but have felt left out of others. The NYBG NYZS are expensive unless one goes on an extremely crowded 'free day'

I pay every year and I'm a educator.

This is a great idea