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One of the Metropolitan Museum of Art branches will be closed for good, becoming yet another business to fall victim to the coronavirus pandemic

Egypt displayed a gilded ancient coffin from the first century B.C. on Tuesday, which New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art returned last week after U.S. investigators determined it to be a looted antiquity.

The coffin, believed to be crafted between 50 and 150 BC, was purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art two years ago — but was fooled by phony documentation. It appears to have been stolen from Egypt during the 2011 uprisings. NBC New York’s Gus Rosendale reports.

A relic from Ancient Egypt has been returned to its rightful owners.

Hollywood’s private couple steps out to attend the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual event

Louis XIV and Oscar Wilde, meet Bjork and Lady Gaga. What quality do they share, across the centuries? An innate sense of camp — the aesthetic that’s being celebrated in the new fashion mega-exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, “Camp: Notes on Fashion.”

The 18th Tribeca Film Festival moved uptown on Wednesday for an opening night that honored an elder New York institution: the Apollo Theater.

Missed Monday’s star-studded Met Gala? Catch up on some of the extreme outfits celebrities wore to the 2018’s dinner, featuring looks modeled after the 2018 spring exhibit, “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.”

Divine designs floated up the red carpet at Monday’s religion-themed Met Gala in shimmering golds, reds and fuchsia, in crowns and in crosses, and even a pair of giant wings.

One of Colombia’s most notorious drug kingpins was extradited to New York from Colombia late Monday and is expected to appear in federal court in Brooklyn later Tuesday, law enforcement sources with knowledge of the case tell News 4.  Daniel Rendon Herrera, arrested in Colombia in 2009 and held there until Monday, faces federal narco-terrorism and international cocaine trafficking charges,…

A multi-state cocaine distribution ring based in an Upper West Side apartment was disrupted with the arrests of six individuals on state narcotics charges, law enforcement officials said Thursday. Gerardo Gonzalez and five others are accused of using an apartment on Columbus Avenue to distribute multi-kilogram quantities of cocaine on a monthly basis in New York City, New Jersey and…

A photo of an apparent ISIS supporter posing in front of the city’s Metropolitan Museum of Art last Christmas was altered after being taken from an Italian tourist’s social media posting, law enforcement officials said Thursday.

Tourists, grab your wallets. The Met wants to make its recommended admissions fee mandatory for everyone except New Yorkers.