A New York Times dispatch on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's annual costume gala reports:
Don't take this as approval, but you can tell it's a wild party when people who normally sneak away to smoke in the bathrooms are now smoking openly inside the galleries, even though Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was there (or at least he had been earlier).
It will be interesting to see whether Mayor Bloomberg and his administration come down as hard on the Met as they would on a small business that showed similar disregard for the city's anti-tobacco regulations. If the Museum gets away with no consequences, it sure looks like a double standard.