The annual openhousenewyork weekend offers free tours of unexpected and unusual places in the city, including the Atlantic Ave. subway tunnel (photo by twi-ny/mdr)
Multiple venues in all five boroughs
Saturday, October 9, and Sunday, October 10
Admission: free (advance reservations required for some sites)
OHNY Weekend Passport: $150 ($200 includes two tickets to launch party)
212-991-OHNY
www.ohny.org
The eighth annual openhousenewyork weekend takes place October 9-10, and they have just announced this year’s lineup of opendialogues, sustainablenewyork tours and talks, site-specific architecturemoves dance and music performances, OHNY Kids! workshops, and other special activities. Although everything is free, some programs require advance reservations, which go live at 9:00 this morning, so don’t waste any time, because they fill up fast. Among the participating locations, many of which are not usually open to the public (at least not for free), are 1 World Trade Center, the African Burial Ground, the Apollo Theater, the Atlantic Ave. Tunnel, the AVAC System on Roosevelt Island, the Chrysler Building, the Woolworth Building, the Gatehouse, Governors Island, the Grand Lodge of Masons, the Jacob Riis Park Bathhouse, the Lighthouse Tender LILAC, an MTA Substation, the Rocking the Boat shipbuilding shop, Tom Otterness’s Brooklyn studio, the DreamYard Project, the Red Hook Sludge Boat, Sixpoint Craft Ales, and the Digester Egg Experience at the Newtown Creek Visitor Center in addition to architecture and design studios, churches and temples, libraries, university centers, cultural institutes, memorials, historic residences, cemeteries, and museums across the five boroughs. Be sure to read the details about each venue, since not all of them are open both days, and keep checking the online schedule because there are regular updates and changes as well as web exclusives. We’ve seen some pretty amazing things over the course of openhousenewyork’s first seven years, gaining access to places we never thought we would, so we highly recommend taking advantage of this terrific opportunity to get an inside look at some of the city’s hidden treasures.