An ambitious plan is in the works to transform the plaza in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art into a more efficient and pleasing space.

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OLIN Designs Metropolitan Museum a New Fifth Avenue Plaza

After a four-year renovation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art reveals its smartly updated New American Wing Galleries for Paintings, Sculpture and Decorative Arts.

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Art Review: Metropolitan Museum of Art’s New American Wing Galleries – Review

On this holiday weekend, Los Angeles was dealing with a new plague, this time an arsonist (or arsonists) who in the course of three days firebombed at least 39 cars in the metropolitan area.

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Los Angeles Car Firebombings Set City on Edge

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is running fewer trains during the morning and evening rush on a group of weekdays with traditionally low peak-hour ridership.

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M.T.A. Reduces Subway Service on a Few ‘Minor Holidays’

“The Renaissance Portrait From Donatello to Bellini” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art shows how subjects flaunted their connections.

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Art Review: ‘Renaissance Portrait From Donatello to Bellini’ – Review

The mezzo-soprano Wendy White fell from a platform eight feet above the stage during a performance of Gounod’s “Faust” at the Metropolitan Opera.

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Opera Singer Wendy White in Stable Condition After a Fall at the Met

Milly Dowler’s voicemails were “most likely” deleted automatically and not by journalists, the Metropolitan Police tells the Leveson Inquiry.

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Questions over Dowler voicemails

Former Metropolitan Police commissioner Lord Stevens is launching his review of policing at the request of the Labour party.

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Stevens reviews police for Labour

“Storytelling in Japanese Art” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art reveals the narrative side of Japanese art in a lavish assortment of hand scrolls, hanging scrolls, screens and books.

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Art Review: ‘Storytelling in Japanese Art’ at the Met – Review

The Metropolitan Police is to be investigated over whether it could have prevented trouble at a funeral that resulted in the death of an innocent bystander.

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Met probed over funeral gun death

Robert Lepage’s production of Wagner’s “Siegfried” opened Thursday night at the Metropolitan Opera with strong singing, remarkable playing, and a creaking set.

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Music Review: Metropolitan Opera’s ‘Siegfried’ Is Led by Impressive Singing

After eight years of renovations, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has 15 new galleries for more than 1,200 works of Islamic culture going back more than a millennium.

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Art Review: The Met’s New Islamic Galleries – Review

The Metropolitan Police launches an inquiry to find the missing diary of Lord Stevens, its former commissioner.

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Scotland Yard missing diary probe

The British National Party faces investigations by the EU and the Metropolitan Police for alleged fraud and breaches of electoral law.

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BNP facing accusations of fraud

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced the resumption of “near normal” service for Friday morning’s Long Island Rail Road commute.

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City Room: Long Island Rail Road Expects Near Normal Morning Service