{"id":2643,"date":"2015-06-07T14:17:02","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T14:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/?p=2643"},"modified":"2015-08-02T13:33:26","modified_gmt":"2015-08-02T13:33:26","slug":"free-admission-to-5th-ave-museums-1-mile-block-party-june-9-6-9pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/free-admission-to-5th-ave-museums-1-mile-block-party-june-9-6-9pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Free admission to 5th Ave museums & 1-mile block party June 9 @ 6-9pm"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Museum<\/a>One evening a year, nine of the city’s finest museums on Fifth Avenue (aka Museum Mile) open their doors to visitors for free and close down the avenue to traffic for a mile-long block party. <\/p>\n

Free Museum Mile Access 6pm \u2013 9pm
\nTuesday 09 June 2015<\/p>\n

23 Car-Free Blocks
\n5th Ave btw 82nd \u2013 105th St<\/p>\n

Live Bands & Entertainment<\/p>\n

Art-in-the street activities for kids<\/p>\n

Begun as an initiative to spur the development of new museum audiences and to increase support for the arts during the fiscal crisis of the 1970s, Museum Mile was formed as a consortium by the museums that share the Fifth Avenue address. The first festival, held in June of 1978, was an instant success. Not only did it expose New Yorkers and NYC visitors to an incredible collection of New York\u2019s artistic riches, it also brought together disparate New Yorkers. From the barrios of East Harlem and the townhouses lining the Upper East Side, to the winding streets of the Village and the clustered neighborhoods of the outer-boroughs, people came to celebrate their shared pride in their city. Museum Mile Festival promoted public awareness through increased visibility, accessibility and attendance at all the museums, and brought many New Yorkers to upper Fifth Avenue for the first time.<\/p>\n

This traffic-free, music and art-filled celebration fills the street and sidewalks of Fifth Avenue from 82nd to 105th Street, the mile now officially designated as Museum Mile. <\/p>\n

Visit museummilefestival.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One evening a year, nine of the city’s finest museums on Fifth Avenue (aka Museum Mile) open their doors to visitors for free and close down the avenue to traffic for a mile-long block party. Free Museum Mile Access 6pm \u2013 9pm Tuesday 09 June 2015 23 Car-Free Blocks 5th Ave btw 82nd \u2013 105th … Continue reading Free admission to 5th Ave museums & 1-mile block party June 9 @ 6-9pm<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,714,141,704],"tags":[521,715,254],"class_list":["post-2643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-art","category-fun","category-happiness","tag-free","tag-museum-mile","tag-new-york-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2643"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2649,"href":"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions\/2649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}