{"id":224521,"date":"2021-04-12T00:18:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T21:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nyc-transit-museum-lays-off-a-third-of-staff\/"},"modified":"2021-04-12T00:18:11","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T21:18:11","slug":"nyc-transit-museum-lays-off-a-third-of-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nyc-transit-museum-lays-off-a-third-of-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"#NYC Transit Museum lays off a third of staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#NYC Transit Museum lays off a third of staff<\/strong>”
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New York\u2019s beloved Transit Museum laid off a third of its staff last month, former employees told The Post \u2014 citing pandemic-induced hardship one year after COVID-19 broke out in the city.<\/p>\n

The 24 discharged workers included full-time and part-time workers in retail, education, curation and administration, former employees said. In 2019, the Downtown Brooklyn museum employed 66 people.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike so many other non-profit arts & culture organizations and museums around the globe, Friends of the New York Transit Museum reduced its staff due to fiscal challenges stemming from the pandemic,\u201d Museum Director Concetta Bencivenga said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are hard at work on plans to reopen the Museum soon, and we hope to return to our pre-pandemic audience capacity, revenue, and staffing levels in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

But laid-off workers said management had called the job cuts part of a \u201crestructuring\u201d of the museum, which is owned by the MTA by operated almost entirely by a 501(c)3 non-profit. <\/p>\n

\u201cAny time there are layoffs at any institution, it\u2019s bad for said institution. They lose institutional memory, and research shows that there is a \u2018survivor\u2019 mentality in those that remain,\u201d said former museum educator Danah Schoenfuss, who helped organized a \u201cmutual aid\u201d fund after she and others lost their jobs on March 2.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wish them [at] the museum the best, but we are saddened by it,\u201d Schoenfuss said.<\/p>\n

The MTA \u2014 which is undergoing a massive cost-cutting \u201ctransformation plan\u201d \u2014 denied any involvement in the layoffs, which consisted entirely of employees of the non-profit Friends of the New York Transit Museum.<\/p>\n

Five MTA positions at the museum have also been eliminated by not replacing people who retired or quit, a rep for the agency said.<\/p>\n

Unlike most of the city\u2019s museums, the Transit Museum\u2019s physical space \u2014 an abandoned subway station in downtown Brooklyn \u2014 remains closed to the public. Museum leaders have not set a date to re-open, and didn\u2019t immedia<\/a>tely respond to a query about why it is still shuttered.<\/p>\n

The museum welcomed 700,000 annual visitors pre-pandemic, but interacted with just 19,000 people between March 15 and Dec. 31, 2020, a rep said.<\/p>\n

Despite the drop in revenue, the popular tourist destination retained a full staff through the first 12 months of the pandemic, the rep said \u2014 even as museum programming went entirely online.<\/p>\n

MTA insiders said Friends of the New York Transit Museum\u2019s annual fundraising gala was once a hot ticket for would-be MTA contractors \u2014 who attended in droves to get close to transit execs.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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