Museums get green light to reopen in New York City
New York City museums now have the green light to reopen starting Aug. 24. Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s go-ahead comes...
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Museums, still in limbo, plan reopenings
New York City’s museums have been in limbo since the state excluded indoor cultural activities from Phase 4 of reopening. But several have gone ahead and set tentative reopening dates already. Metropolitan Museum of...
Preservationists want the Frick to buy Epstein’s old mansion
Could Jeffrey Epstein’s Upper East Side mansion soon become a museum? That’s the goal of art preservationist groups including...
Natural History Museum gets court clearance for $383M expansion
The effort to stop construction on a new educational center at the American Museum of Natural History has likely...
The Lower East Side’s New Museum could get a $38M expansion
UPDATED, 4:28 p.m. April 12: The New Museum of Contemporary Art wants to add a new seven-story building to...
Condo at MoMA tower lists for $46M as developers fight over pricing and discounts
Stalled by the recession and afflicted by slow sales, the luxury condominium tower at 53 West 53rd Street hasn’t...
MoMA closing this summer for final stage of $400M overhaul
More like LessMA. As it enters the home stretch of its $400 million expansion, New York’s Museum of Modern...
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Tax breaks, payment dispute haunt Glenstone Museum’s newly completed $200M expansion
Glenstone Museum, home to billionaire couple Mitchell and Emily Rales’ private collection of contemporary and modern art, is opening...
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This month in RE history: Natural History Museum expansion, development takes off in Montauk & more
1888: Foundation laid for Natural History Museum enlargement The excavation for the American Museum of Natural History’s expansion was completed 130 years ago this month,...
Natural History museum isn’t entitled to city-owned land, activists say
The American Museum of Natural History is moving ahead with its $383 million expansion, even though community activists are...