Article: Forget the Jets and the Sharks: gang warfare in this town is between the Mets and the MOMAS. However, a new museum prefers to stay out of the fray.(News from New York)(Museum of Modern Art)

September is a magical month in New York. Those lucky enough to have escaped the city's humid August heat return with a new vigour that soon infuses the whole city. The sun is softer, the air fresher, the light sharper. New Yorkers' energy levels are high, as are their expectations.

And nothing is causing so much expectation this year as the return of MOMA --the Museum of Modern Art--to its Manhattan home, renovated and hugely expanded by Yoshio Taniguchi. Opening day is 20 November. In this city, where museums are a heady cocktail of superb learning facility, lucrative tourist destination, gift opportunities for tax concessions and society A-list committee ...

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