TERMS OF NEW YORKERS’ RIGHT TO FREE ADMISSION
Note: New York State law supersedes local law and contracts. New York City entered Agreements that breach controlling laws and they should be voided. The Brooklyn venues were part of an umbrella entity known as the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences [BIOAS]. BIOAS had its own incorporating free admission mandates. Using “or” differentiates the BIOAS mandate versus the individual Brooklyn institution’s incorporating free admission mandates.
| American Museum of Natural History | “the collections in the exhibition halls … shall be kept open and accessible to the public free of charge throughout the year five days …, one of which shall be Sunday afternoon, and also two evenings of each week, …” |
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| Brooklyn Academy of Music | “shall be open and free to the public and private schools of said city, at all reasonable times” or “shall maintain prices for tickets to events and activities … at levels which will encourage attendance by a broad segment of the population of the City of New York….” |
| Brooklyn Museum | “museums and libraries … shall be open and free to the public and private schools of said city, at all reasonable times,…” |
| Brooklyn Botanic Garden | “grounds shall be open and free to the public daily, including Sundays….” or “shall be open and free to the public and private schools of said city, at all reasonable times,…” |
| Brooklyn Children’s Museum | “museums and libraries … shall be open and free to the public and private schools of said city, at all reasonable times,…” |
| Museum of the City of New York | “open to the public, free of charge, the exhibition halls of its said building or buildings on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday of each week, from ten o’clock AM. until half an hour before sunset, …All professors and teachers of the public schools of the City of New York, or other institutions of learning in said city in which instruction is given free of charge, shall be admitted … free of any charge therefor ….” |
| New York Botanical Garden | “shall permit classes from primary and secondary schools to be admitted free of charge … However, the adoption of an admission fee policy shall be limited to the establishment of a suggested fee, and visitors shall be allowed to contribute as they wish, in any amount lesser or greater than the suggested fee.” |
| Staten Island Museum | “museum, collection and library … shall be open and free to the public at all reasonable times,…” |
| Staten Island Zoo | “the building or buildings and grounds … open and free to the public at all times …” |
| New York Hall of Science | “ … may charge an admission fee which shall be fixed by it and approved by the Commissioner [of Parks], for lectures, classes or activities other than ordinary exhibition of said exhibits; but, … all professors and teachers of the public schools of the City of New York or other institutions of learning in said City in which instruction is given free of charge shall be admitted … free of any charge therefor…” |
| The Metropolitan Museum of Art | “… the collections shall be kept open and accessible to the public free of all charge throughout the year for five days …, one … shall be Sunday afternoon, and also for two evenings in each week, … furthermore, that on the two days … during which said Museum may remain closed to the general public, it shall be open and accessible to art students, copyists and schools, …” |
| Wave Hill | “All professors and teachers of public schools of the City or other institutions of learning in said City in which instruction is given free of charge shall be admitted …for independent and individual study, research and investigation free of any charge therefor. Wave Hill shall charge a general admission fee of no more than fifty cents [50c] per adult person, and less for children…” |
| New York Zoological Society/Wildlife Conservation Society |
“… shall be free to the public at least three days in each week …” |
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