Tours of the African Burial Ground National Monument in Lower Manhattan are part of openhousenewyork Weekend (photo by twi-ny/mdr)
Multiple venues in all five boroughs
Saturday, October 11, and Sunday, October 12, free ($5 advance reservations required for some sites)
OHNY Passport: $150-$180
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The twelfth annual openhousenewyork Weekend takes place October 11-12, as sites in all five boroughs welcome visitors, including many that are usually closed to the public. Some of the hotter locations and tours are already booked, so plan ahead if you really want to see a specific site; note that advance reservations require a $5 fee. Among the 150 or so Open Access spots, which are first come, first served, are the Edgar Allan Poe Cottage, Woodlawn Cemetery, New York Botanical Garden, Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum, and the Bronx Museum of the Arts in the Bronx, Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, Battery Weed, Historic Richmond Town, Alice Austen House, and MakerSpace in Staten Island, the Noguchi Museum, NYDesigns, the LIC Community Boathouse, the TWA Flight Center, and the Voelker Orth Museum, Bird Sanctuary, and Victorian Garden in Queens, TroutHouse, the Old Stone House, the Red Hook Winery, the Brooklyn Army Terminal, and the Brooklyn Navy Yard Center in Brooklyn, and the African Burial Ground National Monument, the Eldridge Street Synagogue, the Village Community Boathouse, the Grand Lodge of Masons, the New York Marble Cemetery, the New York City Marble Cemetery, the Arsenal, and the Apollo Theater in Manhattan. In addition, there are special programs for children, opendialogues with architects, and Factory Friday invites people into eight working urban manufacturing centers on October 10. Below are only some of the tours that are still available.
Saturday, October 11
Discover Freshkills Park, 10:00
Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School, 10:00, 11:00, 12 noon, 1:00
Wall Street Photo Safari, 11:30, 12 noon, 12:30, 1:30, 2:00, 2:30, 3:00, 4:30
Wave Hill Garden Design Tour, 11:00
Maple Grove Cemetery Spirits Alive Twilight Concert, 6:30 pm
Brooklyn Public Library Central Branch Exterior Lighting Tour, 6:30 pm
Saturday, October 11
and
Sunday, October 12
Louis Armstrong House Museum, multiple times each day
The New School University Center, multiple times each day
Urban Post-Disaster Housing Prototype, multiple times each day
Sunday, October 12
Build It Green!NYC Queens Reuse Center, 9:30
Museum of the City of New York Curatorial Center, 11:00, 12 noon, 12:30
Horatio Gates and Marinus Willett: Lower Manhattan’s Forgotten Revolutionary War Heroes and Statesmen, 12:30