Through April 2009 at least while it undergoes renovation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is forbidding people from sitting on its famous steps. What a travesty! The steps of the Met is one of the best places to sit on a warm day in all of New York City.
After I watched the guard shoo dozens of museumgoers from the steps, one young woman refused to budge, and remained sitting for a few minutes while guards stood nearby looking annoyed. After a short time the woman walked off. She told me she was a tourist from Montenegro and didn’t see any reason for the ban on sitting. And she was simply waiting for her friend to take her photograph on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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