Congestion Pricing Is Un-American!

Who exactly pays $50 to escape the riff raff? That’s just unseemly:

Want an intimate afternoon with Adele Bloch-Bauer? The Neue Galerie announced yesterday that, on Wednesday afternoons for the duration of the Klimt exhibit that features the most expensive painting ever purchased, it will charge a higher than normal price — $50 — in an effort to keep the crowds down. At other times when the museum is open, Thursday through Monday, its normal price of $15 for adults and $10 for students and seniors will be in effect.

“Because we get such a crowd, we thought we might offer a more private viewing,” a representative of the museum explained over the phone yesterday evening. Asked if there were any concerns about offering this more intimate encounter with the paintings only to those who could afford the steep ticket price, she said there were not. It’s an experiment, she explained, “and we’ll see how it goes.”

Ever heard of timed tickets? Jeez . . .