OCT 15-16 2016 It is a simple and familiar concept, an open Dear Friends, house. We open our doors to welcome I am delighted to welcome everyone to the friends, family, and neighbors to celebrate 14th Annual Open House Weekend. an occasion or share an experience. But take IS PROUD that simple idea, multiply it hundreds of times New York has always been at the forefront over the course of two days at some of New of progress in the fi elds of the arts, York’s most architecturally and culturally architecture, engineering and design, and TO PARTNER signifi cant sites, and something extraordinary we are the proud home to an outstanding happens. Welcome to the 2016 Open House array of iconic buildings, , parks, New York Weekend! bridges and infrastructure. Established in 2003, OHNY invites residents and visitors WITH OHNY Weekend brings us together as a to explore more than 250 historic and community to recognize that the city itself contemporary sites throughout the fi ve is our greatest shared resource and that the boroughs and facilitates special access OPEN HOUSE choices we make, collectively, about how to to places normally closed to the public. shape its future have profound implications This much anticipated two-day long event for generations to come. The buildings that includes talks and tours given by leading NEW YORK. will open this OHNY Weekend can tell us and emerging design professionals that stories about the many different ways our educate attendees about the history of our fellow New Yorkers live and learn and work, vibrant urban landscape and help them and communicate ideas about technological better understand the trends, challenges ingenuity, social history, aesthetic innovation, and technological advancements that are and so much more. When OHNY Weekend shaping its future. gives you access to the Gould Memorial Library at Bronx Community College or Among the destinations featured this year City Hall or the New York State Pavilion, it is are the New York Wheel, under construction to remind us that buildings exert a special in Staten Island; the Newtown Creek infl uence on our lives and that we are all Wastewater Treatment Plant in ; stewards of this city’s future. the Welling Court Mural Project in Queens; the recently restored Theodore Roosevelt As you travel around New York this OHNY Birthplace in ’s Gramercy Weekend, please take a moment to thank district; and Concrete Plant Park along the the site hosts that open their buildings, and Bronx River, an abandoned industrial site the dedicated volunteers that help make this revitalized as a greenspace. Choose from event possible. Their generosity is a gift to any of the offerings in this guide and you are all New Yorkers and we could not be more certain to enjoy a fascinating weekend in the grateful. most diverse and dynamic city on earth. Best wishes for a wonderful On behalf of all New Yorkers, I applaud OHNY Weekend! OHNY’s organizers, supporters and participants for their efforts to showcase New York’s architectural heritage and A/D/O is a new design center in Greenpoint, part of an Industrial Business Zone creative energy and inspire the next that has been home to manufacturers and innovators for generations. Renovated generation of artistic innovators. Please by nARCHITECTS, the 23,000 square-foot space aims to be the ideal creative accept my best wishes for a captivating and environment for inspiring a new generation of design thinking. As we prepare to memorable weekend. open later this year, A/D/O is thrilled to join Open House New York in facilitating Sincerely, an exchange about urban life.

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OHNY_Ad_v6.indd 2 8/22/16 11:27 AM For two days each October, OHNY Weekend unlocks the doors of New York City’s most important buildings, offering WELCOME an extraordinary opportunity to experience the city and meet the people who design, build, and preserve New York. From historic farmhouses built in the city’s earliest days, to Art Deco theaters that capture the exuberance of the Jazz Age boom, to new buildings at the cutting edge of design and technology, hundreds of sites across all fi ve boroughs are open to visit, with tours, talks, and other special events taking place over the course of the Weekend. Through the unparalleled access that it enables, OHNY Weekend deepens our understanding of the importance of architecture and urban design to fostering a more vibrant civic life, and helps catalyze a citywide conversation about how to build a better New York.

Sponsors and Supporters Public support is provided by the National Endowment Florim; FXFOWLE; HOK; Roy Kim and Clayton Crawley; Dorothy Dunn; E.W. Howell Co. LLC; Greenberg Traurig for the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates; Lily Auchincloss Foundation; LLP; Louise Harpman and Jonathan M.L. Stone; Stephen with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and Miele Inc.; Timothy C. Quinlan; Robert A.M. Stern Architects Hill; Michael Hirschorn; Steve Hogden; Jaklitsch/Gardner the New York State Legislature; and the New York City LLP; Rob Rogers; Michael M. Samuelian; Sheri Sandler; Architects; Bill Lipschutz; Michael and Lauren Marrus; Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the Abby Jo Sigal and Matthew Turner; SilverLining Interiors; Scott Metzner and Judy Gallent; New York University; New York City Council. Promotional support is provided SPAN Architecture; StreetEasy; Margaret Sullivan Studio; Lincoln Palsgrove IV; Mark Regulinski; Anne Rieselbach and by NYC & Company Foundation. Waterworks; Claire Weisz; and Workshop/APD. Grant Marani; Maria Sepulveda; SHoP Architects; Michael Additional support is provided by A/D/O and Uber. Open House New York programs are also made possible by N. Smith; STUDIOS architecture; Thornton Tomasetti; Tillotson Design Associates; Tsao & McKown Architects; Open House New York programs are made possible Bob Baker, Elliot Berkowitz; Anthony Borelli; Chris Cooper, SOM; Cristobal Correa; Sharon Davis; Deborah Berke WABC-TV; Zubatkin Owner Representation LLC; and F. by Apogee Design & Construction; Bosch, Thermador, Anthony and Sally Zunino. Gaggenau; Amy and Gary Churgin; DDG Foundation; Partners; Digital.NYC; Katie Dixon and Richard Fleming;

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Open Access Sites Brooklyn 3 Changes, Additions, OHNNY Kids & Cancellations Watch for the OHNY Kids symbol There will be changes, next to Open Access listings WHAT additions, and cancellations throughout this guide for sites leading up to and throughout with special programs just for the Weekend. Follow OHNY on kids! Visit ohny.org/2016-kids Facebook and Twitter for live for more details on each site. updates, and visit ohny.org/ YOU weekend/updates for the full list of changes. Weather All events are rain or shine.

Open Access Sites NEED TO Transportation Unless otherwise noted, all sites and tours listed in the pages of Be sure to visit www.mta.info this guide can be visited free or phone 511 or (718) 330-1234 of charge as indicated in each for subway and bus information listing. Open Access sites are and weekend service advisories. KNOW listed by borough and then by neighborhood. Additional Information

More information and photos Advance Reservations for all of the sites listed in the In addition to the Open Access event guide–and sites that have sites listed in this guide, there been added since its printing– are some sites that require can be found online at ohny.org. Advance Reservations; Advance Reservation sites are not listed in this guide. To see the full list Information Hub of reservation sites, visit For updates and information ohny.org/weekend/reservations. on Saturday, October 15, visit Reservations will open at 11am the OHNY Info Hub at the on Thursday, October 6. There Union Square Greenmarket in is a $5 fee for each reservation. Manhattan (Union Square West at E 15th St). Open Dialogue www.ohny.org The opendialogue symbol facebook.com/ appears throughout the guide openhousenewyork to highlight on-site talks and tours led by architects and @ohny design practitioners. @openhousenewyork #OHNYwknd

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Bronx Gould Memorial Library MORRISANIA CUNY BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE, 2155 UNIVERSITY AVE, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS OPEN WHEDco (Former Sun • 12-4pm. opendialogue Tours Morrisania Hospital) with Beyer Blinder Belle every 20 50 E 168TH ST, MORRISANIA mins, beginning at 1pm. Sat • 12-4pm. Tours at 12, 1, 2,3pm. The interior of the library, Tours will include an overview of considered Stanford White’s ACCESS masterpiece, is richly decorated WHEDco’s services and a history of the historic hospital building in marble, stone, mosaic, wood and surrounding neighborhood. and bronze, with Tiffany glass,

≥ WHEDCO (FORMER MORRISANIA and one of the most awe-inspiring ≤ HOSPITAL) Guests will visit the common areas ANDREW FREEDMAN HOME within the building, the commercial rotundas in all of New York City. SITES kitchen, and the roof. Don’t miss Built as part of NYU’s uptown the stunning view of Yankee campus, it became part of the Stadium and the New York City Bronx Community College in 1973. skyline from the roof! STANFORD WHITE, 1900; RESTORATION, BEYER BLINDER BELLE, ONGOING. CHARLES MEYERS, 1929; RENOVATION, BECKER AND BECKER, 1997. Hall of Fame for Great Andrew Freedman Americans Home CUNY BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE, 2155 UNIVERSITY AVE, UNIVERSITY 1125 GRAND CONCOURSE, MORRISANIA HEIGHTS Open Access sites are open Sat • 10am-6pm. Sun • 12-4pm. Tours every 20 during OHNY Weekend Originally designed as a retirement mins, beginning at 1pm. home for the formerly wealthy, This Beaux Arts landmark is home free of charge, and can be the grand Freedman Home was to more than a hundred bronze designated a New York City busts of iconic American fi gures visited at any time during landmark in 1992. Currently, the from the fi elds of politics, arts, building is being transformed letters, and sciences, arrayed the days and hours listed— into an exciting new destination along a colonnade featuring for arts and culture in . Guastavino tile ceilings. Perched no advance reservations On OHNY Weekend, families atop a steep bluff overlooking with children can take part in Dr. the Harlem River, the Hall of necessary! Drum's Neighborhood Harvest Fame features sweeping views Festival, a day-long celebration of upper Manhattan’s dramatic with BombaYo's Dr. Drum and the topography. Step 1 Artists in Residence. STANFORD WHITE, 1900. JOSEPH H. FRIEDLANDER & HARRY Browse listings and pick your favorites. Pay ALLAN JACOBS, 1924. Meister Hall, Colston close attention to the days and times that Hall, Begrisch Hall, & Carl sites are open. They vary from site to site. Bronx of the Arts Polowczyk Hall 1040 GRAND CONCOURSE, MORRISANIA CUNY BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Step 2 Sat & Sun • 11am-6pm. Tours with 2155 UNIVERSITY AVE, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS curators at 2pm both days. Visit ohny.org for more site information. Sun • 12-4pm. opendialogue The Bronx Museum of the Arts Tours with DOCOMOMO New

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≥ GOULD MEMORIAL LIBRARY York/Tri-State at 1, 2, 3pm. Step3 ≤ COLSTON HALL that connects diverse audiences In 1956 Marcel Breuer developed Be prepared: some sites have limited space to the urban experience through its permanent collection, special a comprehensive design for and may have waiting lines. Don't wait to visit exhibitions, and education replanning the NYU campus at your favorites—long lines may close before the programs. The museum’s this site. Tour the bold, sculptural site's listed closing time! Arquitectonica-designed home buildings, designed by Breuer and was awarded the “Excellence his associates Hamilton Smith and Step 4 in Design” prize by The Art Robert F. Gatje, with experts on the Commission of the City of New history of Modernist architecture. Explore and enjoy! York in 2003. Tours will depart from Meister Hall. ARQUITECTONICA, 2006. MARCEL BREUER, 1967.

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Visit ohny.org for updates and information Open Access Sites Bronx 7 P E L H A M BAY PA R K North Hall and Library 620 Fulton Naval Cemetery 620 FULTON ST, FORT GREENE CUNY BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Landscape Bartow-Pell Mansion WILLIAMSBURG ST W BTWN KENT & 2155 UNIVERSITY AVE, UNIVERSITY Sat & Sun • opendialogue Tours Museum FLUSHING AVES, NAVY YARD HEIGHTS with Francis Cauffman at 12, 895 SHORE RD, PELHAM BAY PARK Sun • 12-4pm. opendialogue 12:30, 1, 1:30, 2, 2:30, 3, 3:30pm Sat • 12-4pm. opendialogue Tours with Robert A.M. Stern Sat & Sun • 12-4pm. Tours at both days. Tours with Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects and the Architects every 20 minutes, 12:15, 1:15, 2:15, 3:15pm both days. Featuring a teardrop shape and a beginning at 1pm. Brooklyn Greenway Initiative Wooded parkland surrounds the textured glass façade, this 12-story ongoing throughout. This brand new building completes ca. 1840 Bartow mansion, the only building will contain a mix of office the college’s historic main remaining 19th-century country space, retail, and public amenities The site is an unmarked burial quadrangle, providing state-of-the- estate in the Pelham Bay area, once when it opens in spring 2017. The ground from the late 19th and

≥ THE EDGAR ALLAN POE COTTAGE art classrooms and a soaring library a popular rural retreat. Splendid ≤ design creates a strong image for a early 20th centuries at the BARTOW-PELL MANSION MUSEUM with a double row of barrel vaults Greek Revival interiors feature an major New York-based healthcare Brooklyn Naval Hospital Annex supported by slender columns impressive collection of furniture, organization. Hard hats, safety and now the first open space node inspired by Henri Labrouste’s St. paintings, and decorative arts in vests, and closed-toe, hard-soled along the Brooklyn Greenway. A

≥ PRISON SHIP MARTYRS MONUMENT memorial meadow and sacred Genevieve Library in Paris. period rooms. ≤ shoes are required. Access is first BROOKLYN NAVY YARD ROBERT A.M. STERN ARCHITECTS, 1842; RENOVATION, DELANO & come, first served. grove are framed by an undulating 2012. ALDRICH, 1915. FRANCIS CAUFFMAN, 2017. boardwalk lifted above the undisturbed ground. F O R D H A M & N O R W O O D NELSON BYRD WOLTZ LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS, MARVEL ARCHITECTS, The Edgar Allan Poe Brooklyn Prison Ship Martyrs 2016. Cottage Monument FORT GREENE PARK, FORT GREENE 2640 GRAND CONCOURSE, FORDHAM Pratt Institute Campus DUMBO Sat • 11am-3pm. Tours ongoing, Sat • 10am-4pm. Sun • 1-5pm. HIGGINS HALL, 61 ST. JAMES PL, every 30 mins. Tours ongoing throughout. Made in NY Media Center CLINTON HILL This small wooden farmhouse by IFP Step inside this historic monument, Sat • Tours at 10, 11:30am, 1pm. once commanded unobstructed built in 1908 to commemorate the 30 JOHN ST, DUMBO Tour the campus of the Pratt views over the rolling Bronx hills to more than 11,500 men, women, Sat • 2-6pm. Tours at 2, 4pm. Institute, a renowned college the shores of Long Island. It was a and children who perished on that educates creative thinkers bucolic setting in which the great Created in partnership with the British prison ships during the from around the world. Dozens of Edgar Allan Poe penned many of his Mayor's Office of Media and Revolutionary War. Your guides, structures built between the 1880s most enduring poetical works, from Entertainment and IFP, the the Urban Park Rangers, will share and World War II have earned the “Annabel Lee” to “The Bells.” 1812. Media Center supports over 120 stories of Fort Greene Park's entrepreneurs working across history, the Revolutionary War, and campus a spot on the National Register of Historic Places, while film, virtual reality, gaming, and tales of those who perished. Access content in a 20,000-sf space in a to the base only. more recent buildings have won The New York awards for their innovative designs. Botanical Garden former coffee factory and whiskey STANFORD WHITE, 1908. VARIOUS ARCHITECTS, FOUNDED 1887. 2900 SOUTHERN BLVD, FORDHAM storehouse. Visit to meet some of the creators working from the space Sat & Sun • 10am-6pm. to redefine media. Brooklyn Navy Yard This 250-acre “living museum” MESH ARCHITECTS, 2013. ENTER VIA BLDG 92 AT 63 FLUSHING Clifton Residence contains world-renowned AVE, FORT GREENE 158 CLIFTON PL, exhibitions, 50 gardens and BEDFORD-STUYVESANT/ FORT GREENE-CLINTON HILL Sat • 12-5pm. collections, and family-friendly CLINTON HILL programming for all ages. Mention Established in 1801, the Yard Sat • 10am-2pm. opendialogue

OHNY Weekend for free grounds- ≥ NAVAL CEMETERY LANDSCAPE served as America’s premier Tours with Paul A. Castrucci, Brooklyn Academy ≤ only admission. of Music PRATT INSTITUTE CAMPUS naval shipbuilding facility until Architect, at 10, 11am, 12, 1pm. & SAMUEL PARSONS 30 LAFAYETTE AVE, FORT GREENE it was decommissioned in 1966. One of the first Passive House

JR, 1895. ≥ MADE IN NY MEDIA CENTER BY IFP ≤ Today the sprawling 300-acre wood frame buildings in the city, Sat • 10am-2pm. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC facility is a modern industrial park this project features recycled The Opera House of the Brooklyn where adaptively reused historic materials throughout: the roof Museum of Bronx History at Academy of Music was built in buildings and modern structures the Valentine-Varian House insulation is recycled from a the Beaux-Arts style by the same house over 330 businesses. warehouse in Brooklyn, the rear 3266 BAINBRIDGE AVE, NORWOOD architects responsible for the Enter through BLDG 92 to grab a facade is reclaimed boardwalk Lyceum and New Amsterdam Yard map and explore a curated Sat • 10am-4pm. Sun 1-5pm. from Coney Island, and the front Tours ongoing throughout. Theaters. Tour the theater spaces group of fabricators, designers, facade is reclaimed Douglas Fir of this vital Brooklyn cultural artist studios, and shops that has been burnt/blackened in One of the city’s oldest buildings complex with BAM staff. open throughout the complex the Sho Shugi Ban method. Hard was donated to the Bronx County HERTS & TALLANT, 1905; RENOVATION, exclusively for OHNY Weekend. soled shoes are required. This is a Historical Society in 1965. Two HARDY HOLZMAN PFEIFFER AND VARIOUS ARCHITECTS, FOUNDED 1801. renovation in progress. rooms contain changing exhibitions ASSOCIATES, 1998; RESTORATION, PAUL A. CASTRUCCI ARCHITECT, 2016. while the front parlor is home to H3 HARDY COLLABORATION a permanent display about the ARCHITECTURE, 2004. area's development, from the Dutch period through the Revolution. 1758.

Visit ohny.org for updates and information Open Access Sites Brooklyn 9 CELEBRATING #FINDYOURPARK A CENTENNIAL: Except where noted, NPS sites are Open Access, and can be visited during NATIONAL PARK the times indicated in their listing in this guide. Watch for the icon in the SERVICE upper right corner of this page, which appears They have been described as “the best To learn more about the NPS Centennial, alongside the listings of idea we ever had. Absolutely American, visit participating sites. For absolutely democratic, they reflect us at more details about all our best.” They are our national parks, www.nps.gov participating sites, visit: and this year marks the hundredth ohny.org/nps-100 7 anniversary of the National Park Service, signed into law by President Woodrow PARTICIPATING SITES Wilson in August 1916, to preserve our nation’s most spectacular scenery and its 1 African Burial Ground 7 Hamilton Grange most sacred sites. National Monument National Memorial will also CIVIC CENTER, MANHATTAN HARLEM, MANHATTAN participate in this 2 Battery Weed Beginning with Yellowstone, the first 8 Lower East Side Tenement year’s OHNY Weekend ROSEBANK, STATEN ISLAND Museum with a very special national park, the National Park Service 3 National early morning sunrise today oversees more than four hundred Monument LOWER EAST SIDE, MANHATTAN tour, "Empty Ellis." sites, encompassing 84 million acres and FINANCIAL DISTRICT, MANHATTAN See the Great Hall like Ryan Visitor Center at 4 Castle Williams & Fort Jay 9 few New Yorkers alive 21,000 buildings. New York City is home Floyd Bennett Field today have ever seen it! to a dozen of these sites, ranging from the MARINE PARK, BROOKLYN GOVERNORS ISLAND Limited tickets will be historic home of Alexander Hamilton and 10 Stonewall National raffled off in a public 5 National Monument lottery on October 5th. the site where George Washington was Memorial inaugurated as our first president, to the FINANCIAL DISTRICT, MANHATTAN , MANHATTAN hallowed ground where free and enslaved 6 General Grant National Africans were buried through the late 18th Memorial 11 Theodore Roosevelt MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS, MANHATTAN Birthplace National century. They include Ellis Island and the Historic Site , as well as the birthplace of Theodore Roosevelt and the last resting GRAMERCY, MANHATTAN place of Ulysses S. Grant. New York is also home to one of the most visited sites in the National Park system–Gateway National Recreation Area–and one of its newest– Stonewall National Monument.

This year, Open House New York is proud to partner with the National Park Service to celebrate the nation’s most treasured sites and help kick-off a second century of preservation and stewardship. Join us in this centennial celebration to 6 9 #FindYourPark! 5

Visit ohny.org for updates and information OpenCelebrating Access Sites a Centennial: National BrParkooklyn Service 1111 Church of St. Luke and Church of the EAST WILLIAMSBURG & BUSHWICK C O B B L E H I L L & R E D H O O K St. Matthew Annunciation 520 CLINTON AVE, CLINTON HILL 259 N 5TH ST, WILLIAMSBURG International Studio & Lift / Next Level Floats Curatorial Program Sat • 10am-4pm. Sun • 1-4pm. Sat & Sun • 1-6pm. Tours 320 COURT ST, 2ND FL, CARROLL ongoing, every 15 mins. 1040 METROPOLITAN AVE, EAST GARDENS Inspiration for the design of this WILLIAMSBURG sacred site was drawn from the Designed in the Lombard Sat & Sun • 10am-6pm. Sat • 12-4pm. Tours every 15-30 opendialogue Tours with 590BC churches built during the Italian Romanesque style, this church mins upon request. ongoing throughout both days. Renaissance, particularly those in includes a 110-ft belltower and Modena and Verona. The church “Opus 288,” a pipe organ built by Explore the 18,000-sf wing of what Explore the city's only dedicated features stained glass windows the Austin Organ Company in 1912. was once the Sackett & Wilhelms flotation therapy center with produced by the Tiffany Studios The church’s ornate high altar is Lithography & Printing Co., a architects from 590BC, who of New York and an organ built by composed of hand carved wood, postindustrial loft building—one earned an Award of Merit from the

≥ KINGS COUNTY BREWERS COLLECTIVE of the first in the world to feature M.P. Mollar in 1916. gilded with gold and silver leaf ≤ AIA Brooklyn + Queens Design

≥ SQUARE ROOTS URBAN GROWERS RED HOOK HOUSES URBAN FARM air conditioning—that now serves JOHN WELCH, 1891. accents, containing statues dating ≤ Awards for this unique project that NY SUN WORKS' GREENHOUSE PROJECT back to 1870. as a creative hub for professional harmoniously melds old and new AT PS84 artists and curators from all over W I L L I A M S B U R G & G R E E N P O I N T FRANCIS J. HIMPLER, 1870. while addressing the numerous the world. Thirteen of ISCP’s 35 technical challenges of providing artists and curators will open their Square Roots Urban floatation therapy. Tours of suites Growers studios during OHNY Weekend. with two different styles of float Brooklyn Art Library tanks will be given. 630 FLUSHING AVE, WILLIAMSBURG 28 FROST ST, WILLIAMSBURG 590BC, 2016. Sat • 10am-6pm. Tours at 11am, Sat & Sun • 10am-6pm. 1, 3, 5pm. Kings County Brewers The Sketchbook Project’s home Collective This campus of controlled-climate, contains a collection of over 381 TROUTMAN ST, BUSHWICK Red Hook Houses Urban hydroponic vertical farms is 35,000 artist sketchbooks Sat & Sun • 10am-2pm. Farm used by entrepreneurs to create crowd-sourced from 135 countries. responsible local-food businesses. opendialogue Tours with WOLCOTT ST BTWN DWIGHT & The library serves as a reading Kushner Studios at 10, 11am, 12, RICHARDS, RED HOOK The indoor farms are lit perfectly room and interactive museum for plants with LEDs. Tour the 1pm both days. Sat • 10am-2pm. opendialogue experience where visitors of all Tours with thread collective, inside of a vertical farm, where you ages can engage with the original, Experience the inner workings can meet farmers, watch them of craft beer production on a Green City Force, and NYCHA at handmade sketchbooks of 11am, 1pm. harvest, and taste the delicious architects, designers, illustrators, commercial scale and taste the fresh produce. students, and creatives of all ages. results for yourself at the first Visit the first community farm ORE DESIGN + TECHNOLOGY, 2016. production brewery to open in on public housing property in

Bushwick—once a national hub of New York City, a project of thread brewing—in more than 40 years. collective, Added Value, Green City A/D/O NY Sun Works’ Greenhouse Explore the space with brewers Force, and NYCHA. In addition to 29 NORMAN AVE, GREENPOINT and architects to learn about the producing fresh vegetables, the Project at PS84 process of designing a unique farm serves as a site of education, 250 BERRY ST, WILLIAMSBURG Sat & Sun • 10am-6pm. Tours at 12, 2, 4pm both days. contemporary urban brewery. job training, and community Sat • 10am-2pm. engagement. A/D/O is a newly renovated JOHN BEDARD, KUSHNER STUDIOS, This rooftop greenhouse, built by WITH MAX J. LENT & GREGORY THREAD COLLECTIVE, 2013. warehouse in the heart of North CHARNOCK, 2016. NY Sun Works, uses hydroponic Brooklyn's Industrial Business technology to teach sustainability Zone. Built for designers yet science and environmental open to all, the 23,000-sf Waterfront Museum education through the lens or 290 CONOVER ST, RED HOOK urban agriculture to students from space comprises a world-class TroutHouse Kindergarten to 12th grade in NYC restaurant, prototyping studio, 225 TROUTMAN ST, BUSHWICK Sat • 1-5pm. public workspace, design store

public schools. ≥ BROOKLYN ART LIBRARY Sat • 10am-2pm. opendialogue ≤ During the “lighterage era” (1860- KISS + CATCHCART, 2016. and in-house accelerator in A/D/O Tours with thread collective at addition to its professional 1960) there were over 5,000 11am, 1pm. non-self propelled barges moving

programs. The A/D/O team is ≥ LIFT / NEXT LEVEL FLOATS ≤ Strong moments of color, food and commercial goods across passionate about creating the WATERFRONT MUSEUM The City Reliquary ideal creative environment—a repurposed materials (including New York Harbor for the mighty Museum catalyst for interdisciplinary reclaimed Coney Island railroad conglomerates. Today, 370 METROPOLITAN AVE, collaboration and a prolific source boardwalk), and expansive light Lehigh Valley Railroad Barge No. WILLIAMSBURG of new ideas. and outdoor access at the front 79 is the only surviving wooden example still afloat, and serves Sat & Sun • 12-6pm. and back, support well-designed NARCHITECTS, 2016. open plan interiors. Visit to tour as a museum about the harbor’s The City Reliquary is a museum of thread collective’s office space, heyday. the everyday artifacts of New York residential apartments, and the LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD CO., 1914; City spanning the late nineteenth building’s green roof. RESTORATION ONGOING. century to the present. Highlights THREAD COLLECTIVE, 2013. include an 1883 souvenir coin from opening day of the Brooklyn Bridge, a display of New York geological specimens, and the original 2nd Ave. Deli sign. Visit ohny.org for updates and information Open Access Sites Brooklyn 13 GOWANUS Old Stone House & P R O S P E C T & C R O W N H E I G H T S SOUTHEAST BROOKLYN Washington Park Gil Hodges Community 336 THIRD ST, GOWANUS Wyckoff House Museum Garden Sat & Sun • 10am-4pm. 10 GRAND ARMY PLAZA, PROSPECT 5816 CLARENDON RD, EAST FLATBUSH 534 CARROLL ST, GOWANUS HEIGHTS Sat & Sun • 11am-4pm. Tours at This structure, a modern Sat • 10am-6pm. Tours at 10am, 11am, 1, 3pm both days. Sat • 10am-5pm. opendialogue reconstruction of the 1699 Vechte- 2pm. Tours with Stantec and the New Cortelyou House, was built as a This humble building—the oldest York Restoration Project ongoing. WPA project under Robert Moses Visitors will receive an surviving structure within the five In 2013, this site became the and is now dedicated to creating architectural and historical boroughs of New York City—was first of NYRP’s community a strong sense of community tour of Central Library, which is home to eight generations of one gardens to implement a storm through history, environmental celebrating its 75th birthday this family, who farmed the land until water management system. The education and the arts. year. Tours will include a behind- 1901. During OHNY Weekend,

≥ MEDGAR EVERS COLLEGE LIBRARY system, which includes bioswales, CLAES VECHTE, 1699; RECONSTRUCTION, ≤ the-scenes look at storage visit the attic and root cellar, not

≥ GIL HODGES COMMUNITY GARDEN KINGS THEATRE ROBERT MOSES, 1934. ≤ and other areas beyond the well- normally open to the public. 1652. rain gardens and permeable LITE BRITE NEON STUDIO pavers, improves local water known public spaces within this quality. Efficiently capturing SUNSET PARK celebrated Brooklyn icon. storm water runoff, these special RAYMOND ALMIRALL, FRANCIS Kings Theatre features prevent the sewer from Sunset Park Material KEALLY, & ALFRED MORTON GITHENS, 1027 FLATBUSH AVE, FLATBUSH overloading with polluted water 1941. Recovery Facility Sun • 2-6pm. and draining untreated into the 472 2ND AVE, SUNSET PARK nearby Gowanus Canal. The Kings Theatre, one of the Sat • 10am-2pm. Medgar Evers five legendary Loew’s “Wonder STANTEC LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE College Library AND PLANNING, 2013. If you live in the five boroughs and Theatres,” opened in 1929 as 1650 BEDFORD AVE, CROWN HEIGHTS recycle, odds are this is where your one of the most exquisite movie discards come to be processed Sat & Sun • 10am-2pm. palaces in the nation. Following Lite Brite Neon Studio before being shipped out as raw opendialogue Tours with ikon.5 decades of decay and neglect, the 232 3RD ST, STE C102, GOWANUS material for re-manufacturing. Architects ongoing throughout. recent completion of a $95 million restoration marked the rebirth Sat • 10am-4pm. The facility's Recycling Education The concept for the renovation of Center features displays that this 45,000-sf library was inspired of this historic building and its At a time when neon was dwindling illustrate the why's and how's of by the brilliant and reflective transformation into a state-of- in popularity, Lite Brite Neon NYC's recycling program. Hand- pages of illuminated manuscripts the-art live performance venue, helped pioneer a renewed interest cranked conveyor belts, magnets, and their modern counterpart, a revitalized crown jewel of the in its use in visual art and design. air jets, and scales engage all age the computer screen. Treating Brooklyn arts scene. Today, they produce work for groups, and a viewing platform each interior surface as a bright RAPP & RAPP, 1929; RESTORATION, corporate clients like Apple, artists MARTINEZ + JOHNSON allows visitors to see the recycling reflective page, the renovation like Deborah Kass—and Open ARCHITECTURE, 2014. process in action! transforms the former dark and House New York! During OHNY SELLDORF ARCHITECTS, 2013. shadowed space into a bright Weekend, visit the studio that and airy modern information produced the neon sign pictured commons. East Midwood Jewish on the cover of this guide, located Center in the historic Old American Can Brooklyn Army Terminal IKON.5 ARCHITECTS, 2014. 1625 OCEAN AVE, MIDWOOD Factory, for the opportunity to view 140 58TH ST, SUNSET PARK live neon bending demonstrations. Sun • 2-6pm. Tours ongoing Sat & Sun • 12-5pm. Tours of the throughout the afternoon. 1865-1901. atrium on the hour with Turnstile The Black Lady Theater - Tours, both days. Slave II This building’s two-story high 750 NOSTRAND AVE, CROWN HEIGHTS sanctuary is illuminated by stained Designed by Cass Gilbert, BAT glass windows in red, green, Interference Archive served as one of the largest ≥ SUNSET PARK MATERIAL RECOVERY Sat & Sun • 10am-6pm.

FACILITY yellow, and blue; a huge stained 131 8TH ST #4, GOWANUS ≤ military supply bases in the US BROOKLYN ARMY TERMINAL The Black Lady Theater will open glass dome; and an elaborate Sat & Sun • 12-5pm. through World War II, and has its doors to the public for the chandelier. Visitors will also have been revitalized by NYCEDC as first time in over 20 years with a an opportunity to tour EMJC’s This open stacks archival a modern, thriving industrial

≥ EAST MIDWOOD JEWISH CENTER celebration of the Black woman basement pool, and explore the collection and study center ≤ campus. The atrium's staggered HENDRICK I. LOTT HOUSE and her authentic beauty, featuring Sukkah located in the courtyard. houses a variety of different balconies are beautiful and objects created as part of social live music and a vendor market. LOUIS ALLEN ABRAMSON & MAURICE functional, designed to facilitate This is the sister theater of Slave I, COURLAND, 1958. movements by the participants the efficient movement of supplies themselves: posters, flyers, a pillar in the Bedford Stuyvesant throughout a massive vertical community that served as a think publications, photographs, , structure. In addition to the T-shirts and buttons, moving tank in the 80s to fight civil rights atrium, dozens of artists will open inequalities. Fourteen original images, audio recordings, and their studios in Building A (3-J) more. The archive makes use of murals that once hung in Slave and Building B (4-I) as part of I will be on display at Slave II for this cultural ephemera to animate chashama Open Studios. histories of people mobilizing for OHNY Weekend. CA. 1910. CASS GILBERT, 1918; PHASED social transformation. 2011. RENOVATION, 1985-PRESENT.

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Cities are more than just buildings and Most New Landscapes New York sites people. Open space is a key component to require Advance Reservations, as noted making any city livable. Not only does it on the opposite page. Watch for the icon off er beauty and areas for recreation and in the upper right corner of this spread, respite, but urban green space also off ers which appears alongside the listings of valuable economic, health, community the three Open Access sites. For more building, and ecosystem benefi ts. information about all participating sites, 2 5 visit: Being a very dense city with an enormous population, the need for open space in ohny.org/landscape PARTICIPATING SITES 7 New York is paramount. New York has been a leader in city park expansion, 1 Concrete Plant Park 8 15 QueensWay including transforming old rail lines into greenways and an old Army headquarters BRONX RIVER ALLIANCE AECOM DLANDSTUDIO ARCHITECTURE + in the middle of the harbor into a popular LONGWOOD, BRONX FINANCIAL DISTRICT, MANHATTAN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE WITH FDR Four Freedoms Park THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND oasis. Even buildings have become more 2 9 The Lowline Lab FOREST HILLS, QUEENS conscious of providing green spaces, MATHEWS NIELSEN LOIS SHERR DUBIN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS 16 Times Square with many including green roofs that help , MANHATTAN LOWER EAST SIDE, MANHATTAN Reconstruction curb greenhouse gas emissions or green 3 Gil Hodges Community 10 Naval Cemetery SNØHETTA plazas for tenants to enjoy. At the center Garden Landscape MIDTOWN, MANHATTAN NELSON BYRD WOLTZ of these transformations are landscape STANTEC WITH NEW YORK 17 VIA 57 West 17 RESTORATION PROJECT LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS architects—the designers who push the GOWANUS, BROOKLYN NAVY YARD, BROOKLYN boundaries of creativity, innovation and 4 Hallett Nature Sanctuary 11 New York Times STARR WHITEHOUSE LANDSCAPE leadership in the planning, design and Building Lobby Garden ARCHITECTS AND PLANNERS WITH BJARKE INGELS GROUP development of our built environment. CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY MIDTOWN WEST, MANHATTAN CENTRAL PARK, MANHATTAN HMWHITE Open House New York and the New York 5 The High Bridge MIDTOWN, MANHATTAN Chapter of the American Society of 12 Nowadays NYC PARKS & RECREATION Landscape Architects have partnered WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, FUTURE GREEN STUDIO MANHATTAN AND HIGHBRIDGE, this year to provide exclusive access to RIDGEWOOD, QUEENS BRONX the designers behind many of New York's 6 High Line 13 Pier 5 Uplands at newest and most exciting open spaces Brooklyn Bridge Park and landscapes. JAMES CORNER FIELD OPERATIONS MICHAEL VAN VALKENBURGH CHELSEA, MANHATTAN ASSOCIATES INC. WITH BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK 7 Hunter's Point South BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN Waterfront Park 14 Pier 15

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Visit ohny.org for updates and information New Landscapes New York 17 Hendrick I. Lott House when it was designed. Access Federal Hall National Hall of Records / 1940 E 36TH ST, MARINE PARK to the rarely opened Collector’s Memorial Surrogate's Court Office, designed by Louis Comfort 26 WALL ST, FINANCIAL DISTRICT 31 CHAMBERS ST, CIVIC CENTER Sun • 12-4pm. Tiffany to be the grandest room At its peak in the 19th century, the in all of New York, will be offered Sat • 9am-4:45pm. Tours at 10am, Sat • 12-4pm. 1, 3pm. Performances at 11am, Lott farm included 200 acres, and on a first-come-first-served basis. This civic landmark embodies 2pm. the house may have served as a Arrive at least an hour before the mission of the Department of stop on the Underground Railroad. closing, as long lines for the office This building by Towne & Davis Records and Information Services; Visit a replica of the old well and are expected and may close before features Doric columns that like the archival collections it of the privy, and take part in the the rest of the building. resemble those of the Greek houses, the building documents ≥ CASTLE CLINTON NATIONAL house’s Annual Fall Festival. Parthenon. Two performances the history of the City. Visit to view

CASS GILBERT, 1907; RENOVATION, MONUMENT ≤ of “Washington, Jefferson, and CA. 1719; EXTERIOR RESTORATION, EHRENKRANTZ ECKSTUT & KUHN ALEXANDER HAMILTON U.S. CUSTOM the stunning French Neo-Baroque KOUTSOMITIS ARCHITECTS, 2008; ARCHITECTS, 1987. HOUSE Hamilton: Behind Closed Doors interior entranceway and lobby, GROUNDS RESTORATION, NYC PARKS, - The First Presidential Cabinet” browse historic documents and 2015. will take place in celebration of the images in the Visitor Center, and Cornell AAP NYC Studio National Park Service’s centennial peruse books at the first Municipal Ryan Visitor Center at (Standard Oil Building) anniversary. Library Book Sale. JOHN ROCHESTER THOMAS, 1907. Floyd Bennett Field 26 , 20TH FL, FINANCIAL TOWN & DAVIS, 1842. 1 RYAN CENTER, 50 AVIATION RD, DISTRICT MARINE PARK Sat • 10am-4pm. opendialogue ≥ NEW YORK CITY HALL & THE C I V I C C E N T E R & T R I B E C A African Burial Ground

Sun • 12-5pm. Tours at 12, 2, 4pm. Tours with Gensler & Cornell AAP MANHATTAN MUNICIPAL BUILDING ≤ National Monument As New York City’s first municipal at 10:30, 11:30am, 12:30, 1:30, HALL OF RECORDS 2:30, 3:30pm. New York City Hall 290 BROADWAY, 1ST FL, CIVIC CENTER airport, Floyd Bennett Field was a ENTRANCE GATE ON THE EAST SIDE Sat 10am-4pm. Tours at 11am, popular site with early aviators. 26 In April 2015, Cornell AAP NYC OF BROADWAY AT MURRAY ST, CIVIC • around-the-world or transatlantic moved into a new studio space in CENTER 12, 1, 2, 3pm. the former headquarters of the flights started or ended at Floyd Sat • 12-4pm. This monument preserves a Bennett Field between 1931-39. Standard Oil Company, on the portion of the site that served as One of the oldest city halls in the Today, the Ryan Visitor Center floor that once housed the office a burial ground for approximately nation still serving its original (which originally served as the of John D. Rockefeller himself. 15,000 Africans in the 17th and purpose, New York City Hall airport’s passenger terminal) With moveable wall panels, the 18th centuries. The cemetery was features a stunning rotunda—lit has been renovated to reflect the 11,114-sf space is easily adaptable rediscovered in 1991 during the by a central oculus and graced Golden Age of Aviation. 1931. for various uses during and construction of a federal office by a “floating” staircase—that is between semesters. Its natural building. Tours will discuss the a designated interior landmark. lighting and 360-degree views of symbolism of the memorial built in Lower Manahttan, the Statue of The plaza, rotunda, City Council chamber, and Governor’s Room will 2007 to mark the site. Manhattan Liberty, and Ellis Island enhance RODNEY LEON, 2007. the experience of the city as an be open to explore. Long lines are expected; visitors must arrive by extension of the classroom. 3pm for admittance. FINANCIAL DISTRICT CARRERE & HASTINGS, 1920; Mmuseumm 1 and EXPANSION, SHREVE, LAMB & BLAKE, JOHN MCCOMB, JR. AND JOSEPH 1928; CORNELL AAP RENOVATION, FRANCOIS MANGIN, 1812; Mmuseumm 2 Castle Clinton National GENSLER, 2015. RESTORATION, BEYER BLINDER BELLE, 4 CORTLANDT ALLEY, TRIBECA Monument 2015. Sat & Sun • 10am-6pm. Tours BATTERY PARK, FINANCIAL DISTRICT ongoing throughout both days. Sat • 11am-3pm. 70 Pine Manhattan Municipal Mmuseumm is made up of an Castle Clinton is an open air fort 70 PINE ST, FINANCIAL DISTRICT Building expanding network of wings in Sun 12-4pm. Tours ongoing that has gone through many • 1 CENTRE ST, 19TH FL, SOUTH unexpected spaces. The first two changes over the years, serving throughout. ENTRANCE, CIVIC CENTER locations are housed in a former

≥ CORNELL AAP NYC STUDIO at different times as a 6,000-seat ≤ freight elevator and a former Built by Cities Services during 70 PINE Sat • 10am-4pm. opera house, the city’s pre-Ellis the golden age of the Art Deco loading dock. Mmuseumm tells Island immigration station, and skyscraper, this tower remains Visit the 102-year-old Municipal contemporary stories about even an aquarium! Visit during the city's eighth tallest building. Building to view a selection of humanity through vernacular OHNY Weekend for special Featuring a grand lobby designated historic maps and photographs of objects from around the world. performaces by a re-enactor that as an interior landmark, 70 Pine New York City from the collection There are 16 exhibitions on view at celebrate the site’s history. 1811. is one of the crown jewels of the of the Municipal Archives, in the both wings that cover the globe, offices of Manhattan Borough skyline. After a recent renovation, ≥ AFRICAN BURIAL GROUND NATIONAL current events, social issues, and

MONUMENT President Gale Brewer. Also, the former office building ≤ cultural identities.

Alexander Hamilton U.S. contains residential apartments, MMUSEUMM 1 AND MMUSEUMM 2 become a PART of history by MICHAEL CAPPUTO, 2012-16. Custom House a hotel, and retail space. Tours sharing a story about a woman 1 BOWLING GREEN, FINANCIAL DISTRICT will visit public areas and model who has inspired you—to be compiled into a catalog of women Sat 1-5pm. Sun 10am-5pm. apartments. Photo ID is required. • • activists at womensactivism.nyc! Tours ongoing throughout. Access is first come, first served. CLINTON & RUSSELL AND HOLTON & MCKIM, MEAD & WHITE, 1914. This imposing landmark’s GEORGE, 1932; RENOVATION, STEPHEN magnificent interiors reflect how B. JACOBS GROUP, 2016. vital the building was to the city, then the world’s greatest port,

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Alexander and Bonin the process of transforming an Umbrella House Rooftop 47 WALKER ST, TRIBECA historic commercial loft into a Garden contemporary multi-use space. Sat & Sun 10am-6pm 21 AVE C, LOWER EAST SIDE • . GRIFFITH THOMAS, 1873; RENOVATION, ARTNOIR: CITY OF Formerly a garment warehouse, IRINA VERONA, 2013. Sat & Sun • 12-4pm. this space has been redesigned This rooftop garden atop one of the by architects Bade Stageberg Cox former Lower East Side squats is CULTURAL EXCHANGE to create a sequence of gallery Eldridge Street an 820-sf intensive green roof that spaces on two levels connected by Synagogue / Museum at serves as a source of fresh produce New York City’s history lives in its a steel mesh stair. The inaugural Eldridge Stret for residents, a means to assist in buildings. Far from passive fixtures, exhibition will be installed for 12 ELDRIDGE ST, LOWER EAST SIDE storm water management, and a these architectural spaces act as OHNY Weekend. model for other buildings. Spring Sun • 10am-3pm. Tours at 10, precipitators of cultural exchange, 1867; RENOVATION, BADE STAGEBERG 2015 was the garden's first growing COX, 2016. 10:30, 11, 11:30am, 1, 1:30, 2, which present endless opportunities 2:30pm. “Forensic Architecture” season, producing everything from for storytelling and transformation. tour with curator at 12pm. swiss chard and okra to medicinal From meeting halls to performance plants including hyssop, lemon AT&T Long Distance Explore the magnificent neo- balm, and chamomile. Umbrella theatres, buildings act as vital points Building Lobby Moorish interior of the first great House is now a limited-equity house of worship built in America of intersection for the communities 32 AVE OF THE AMERICAS, TRIBECA co-op that will provide affordable that inhabit them, carrying the soul of by Eastern European Jews, housing on Avenue C for many Sat & Sun • 12-4pm. the neighborhood within their walls. 10 featuring stained glass artwork decades to come. Hildreth Meière was commissioned by artist Kiki Smith and architect PAUL A. CASTRUCCI ARCHITECT, 2015. This year, Open House New York and ARTNOIR to design a ceiling mural depicting Deborah Gans and a permanent exhibition on the history of this are collaborating to highlight ten locations the “Continents Linked by the THE VILLAGE landmark sacred site. Family throughout New York City that illustrate how Telephone and Wireless” as a reflection of the purpose of the activities, including a scavenger the built environment serves as a catalyst building in her imaginative Art hunt, will be offered throughout New York City Marble for cultural exchange. Tours will help visitors Deco style. Experts from the the day. Cemetery understand how architectural form and function International Hildreth Meière HERTER BROTHERS, 1887; 60 E SECOND ST, EAST VILLAGE can reveal certain truths about the sociological Association will be on-site to RENOVATIONS, WSA/MODERN climate from which these buildings were born. RUINS, WISS JANNEY ELSTNER, AND Sat & Sun • 11am-5pm. discuss the artist's work. ARCHIMUSE, 2007-14. ARTNOIR and OHNY seek to uncover various VOORHEES, GMELIN & WALKER, 1930. One of only two non-sectarian narratives that reflect on the relationship burial grounds in Manhattan, this historic cemetery contains 258 between identity and place. 8 S O H O & L O W E R E A S T S I D E Essex Street Market underground burial vaults and 120 ESSEX ST, LOWER EAST SIDE has seen the funerals of many ARTNOIR is a global collective of culturalists Except where noted, ARTNOIR sites who design experiences aimed at engaging this Azul Rooftop Bar Sat & Sun • 10am-6pm. Tours at distinguished citizens, including are Open Access, and can be visited 525 GREENWICH ST, SOHO 12, 2pm both days. President James Monroe and the generations dynamic and diverse creative class. during the times indicated in their founders of many city institutions. The group offers an alternative perspective Sun • 3-7pm. opendialogue Opened in 1940 as part of Mayor listing in this guide. Watch for the Tours with Stonehill & Taylor LaGuardia’s public market network, PERKINS NICHOLS, 1831. to the traditional arts narrative, supports the icon in the upper right corner of this freedom of artistic expression for all, and ongoing throughout. this site has been in continuous page, which appears alongside the operation for 76 years. Tours will provides a platform for bold acts of creativity. 12 The relaxed design of this rooftop highlight the history of the city’s New York Marble listings of participating sites. For bar is meant to evoke a street-side Follow @artnoirco public markets and their role in Cemetery more details about all participating hotspot in Little Havana, with on Instagram for more! the urban food system, as well 41 ½ SECOND AVE, EAST VILLAGE sites, visit: vintage ads, posters for live acts as the wonderful diversity of this from the 1950s, street art, and Sat & Sun • 10AM-5PM. particular market’s food offerings ohny.org/artnoir spray painted graphics. Explore the The city's oldest non-sectarian and the people who serve it. 1940. PARTICIPATING SITES space with designers while taking burial ground was established in in 360-degree views of Manhattan 1830 by wealthy merchants. The 1 Andrew Freedman Home 6 Marjorie Eliot's Parlor and the Statue of Liberty. The Lowline Lab beautiful half-acre garden is MORRISANIA, BRONX STONEHILL & TAYLOR, 2015. surrounded by 12-ft marble walls, Jazz 140 ESSEX ST, LOWER EAST SIDE 2 The Black Lady Theatre - WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, MANHATTAN and is the resting place of more Sat & Sun • 11am-5pm. than 2,100 interments in its Slave II 7 Museum of Art and Origins Sat • opendialogue Tours with CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN Center for Italian underground vaults, each of Modern Art Mathews Nielsen Landscape which is the size of a small room. 3 Lewis H. Latimer House WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, MANHATTAN Architects from 1-3pm. 421 BROOME ST, 4TH FL, SOHO PERKINS NICHOLS, 1830. Museum See a full-scale mock-up of the FLUSHING, QUEENS 8 Queens Museum Sat • 10am-6pm. opendialogue FLUSHING MEADOWS CORONA Tours with architect Irina Verona future Lowline underground park. 4 Louis Armstrong House PARK, QUEENS at 11am, 1pm. Tours with CIMA Built in a former market building Museum Fellows at 3, 4:30pm. just a block away from the future CORONA, QUEENS 9 The park site, the lab features a solar Located in a building designed collection system installed on 5 Lower East Side Tenement HARLEM, MANHATTAN by one of the SoHo cast iron Museum the building’s roof, a sunlight 10 United Palace district’s most prolific architects, distribution mechanism, and a live WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, CIMA’s gallery features a 7 green space inside the warehouse. LOWER EAST SIDE, MANHATTAN MANHATTAN sensitive renovation with 1940; LOWLINE PARK, EXPECTED modern Italian furnishings and COMPLETION 2021. finishes. Visit to learn about Visit ohny.org for updates and information Open Access Sites Manhattan 21 East 4th Street Cultural Wikimedia NYC: Judson Memorial Church table” agriculture, and wildlife District CommonsLab 55 WASHINGTON SQ S, GREENWICH conservation, while also engaging 61 E 4TH ST, EAST VILLAGE at Interactive VILLAGE them outside of the classroom. Telecommunications Sat 10am-2pm. Sun 1-3pm. MURPHY, BURNHAM & BUTTRICK AND Sat • Tours at 10, 11:15am, 12:30, • • ROBERT SILMAN ASSOCIATES, 2012. 1:45pm. Program The first solo project by legendary 721 BROADWAY, GREENWICH VILLAGE Tours led by Fourth Arts Block architect Stanford White, this director Risa Shoup will visit a mix Sun • 2-7:30pm. Workshops and church was designed in tandem Westbeth Artist Housing of cultural organizations located tutorials ongoing throughout. with the Washington Square Park 55 BETHUNE ST, Arch, echoing similar architectural

within this “Naturally-Ocurring Wikimedia NYC is a community ≥ AZUL ROOFTOP BAR Sat & Sun 12-6pm. Tours at 12, 1, ≤ details in the church’s interior • Cultural District.” Employees and/ nonprofit that works with local ELDRIDGE STREET SYNAGOGUE /

≥ JUDSON MEMORIAL CHURCH 2, 3, 4, 5pm both days. or affiliated artists from each institutions interested in the further MUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET ≤ columns and arches. The church site will be present to explain the expansion and diversification of free also houses the world’s largest Listed on the federal, state and particular history of their site, knowledge. During OHNY Weekend, collection of John LaFarge stained city historic landmark registries, current programming, and its visit NYU's Interactive Telecommu- glass windows. Westbeth is the largest artist relationship to the district. nications Program for a multimedia STANFORD WHITE, 1892; RENOVATION, community in the US. The former WILLIAM STIVALE, 2015. VARIOUS ARCHITECTS, 2005-2016. tutorial, workshop, and hackathon Bell Telephone Laboratories focused on Wikimedia Commons building was converted to artist and the work processes for cultural studios in 1970. Visit to see working The Sylvia Wald & multimedia wiki-projects. Minetta Lane Residence artists’ studios, gallery exhibitions, Po Kim Gallery 16 MINETTA LN, GREENWICH VILLAGE and a stunning rooftop view of the Statue of Liberty. 417 LAFAYETTE ST, 4TH FL, NOHO Sat • 12-5pm. opendialogue Tours Renee & Chaim Gross with Kushner Studios at 2, 4pm. CYRUS L. W. EIDLITZ, 1898; Sat • 10am-6pm. Sun • 12-4pm. Foundation RENOVATION, RICHARD MEIER, 1970. This work in progress involves the The gallery of this nonprofit 526 LAGUARDIA PL, GREENWICH foundation, created by Korean- VILLAGE transformation of a unique West CHELSEA & FLATIRON born American artist Po Kim and Village townhouse with a storied Sat & Sun • 10am-6pm. his wife, American artist Sylvia and colorful past into its next In 1963, sculptor Chaim Gross and iteration, as architect/contractor The New School - Sheila C. Wald, offers visitors a unique Johnson Design Center behind-the-scenes look into his wife Renee converted an art and owner Adam Kushner creates 66 5TH AVE, UNION SQUARE the founding artists’ two floors storage warehouse into their home his idealized urban home and of studio-residences, a lush and studio. The Grosses added presents a love letter to Minetta Sat & Sun • 12-6pm. a sculpture studio to the ground Lane, the Minetta Brook, and New rooftop garden, and a fourth floor These two galleries, open to the floor, which is illuminated by an York City in general. Visitors should gallery with a rotating exhibition public daily, offer visitors the enormous skylight and features wear hard-soled, closed toe shoes. schedule of contemporary Asian unique physical experience of Gross’ work. On the third floor, see 1925; RENOVATION, KUSHNER and American artists. (Rooftop being in a gallery and on an open how the family lived surrounded by STUDIOS, 2016. access depends on weather and stage simultaneously, and host construction schedule). their world-class art collection. an exciting schedule of exhibits CLEVERDON & PUTZEL, 1893-94. CA. 1830S; RENOVATION DON REIMAN of student and professional work AND CHAIM GROSS, 1963. Jefferson Market Library throughout the year. 425 AVE OF THE AMERICAS, WEST RICE + LIPKA, 2008. Grace Church in New York VILLAGE Center for Architecture 802 BROADWAY, GREENWICH VILLAGE Sun • 12-4pm. 536 LAGUARDIA PL, GREENWICH Sun • 1-5pm. Tours ongoing VILLAGE In 1967 this Venetian Gothic Union Square throughout the afternoon. courthouse was converted into a Greenmarket Sat & Sun • 11am-5pm. much loved branch of the New York UNION SQUARE W AT E 15TH ST, This elegant Gothic Revival

Visit the city's premier ≥ WESTBETH ARTIST HOUSING Public Library. Climb 149 steps UNION SQUARE church’s landmark buildings ≤ architectural exhibition space to GENERAL SOCIETY OF MECHANICS to the top of the tower and enjoy feature designs by James Renwick, Sat • 8am-6pm. Tour with view current exhibits, or bring the AND TRADESMEN OF THE CITY OF 360-degree views of the Village! Jr., a renovation and extension by NEW YORK GrowNYC at 10am. kids for FamilyDay@theCenter Long lines are expected; visitors Heins & La Farge, decoration by The world-famous Union Square

on Saturday between 11am and ≥ THE SYLVIA WALD & PO KIM GALLERY must arrive by 3pm for admittance. Tiffany, and windows by Clayton 3pm to help build a model city! For ≤ Greenmarket began with just a & Bell, along with many other RENEE & CHAIM GROSS FOUNDATION FREDERICK CLARKE WITHERS & children ages 5 and up with their CALVERT VAUX, 1875; RENOVATION, few farmers in 1976 and has grown celebrated artisans. adult companions. , 1967. exponentially over the past 40 JAMES RENWICK, JR., 1846. ANDREW BERMAN, AIA, 2003. years. Visit the OHNY Weekend Info Hub all day on Saturday, PS 41 -The Greenwich or join Greenmarket staff for a Village School behind-the-scenes tour to meet 116 W 11TH ST, WEST VILLAGE the farmers who provide New Yorkers with fresh, local food. Sun • 12-4pm. This 15,000-sf green roof—the first ever constructed by the NYC School Construction Authority—is integrated into current curricula to help teach students green building technologies, “farm-to-

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Rubin Museum of Art MIDTOWN Institute of Classical 150 W 17TH ST, CHELSEA Architecture & Art Cast Scandinavia House Sat & Sun • 11am-6pm. Tours with Gallery 58 PARK AVE, MURRAY HILL CURBED CURATES: curators at 2pm both days. 20 W 44TH ST, 6TH FL, MIDTOWN Sun • Children's tour at 2pm. Sun • 12-6pm. Sat • 11am-3pm. This contemplative space inspires Offerings in this sleek, modern In 2004, the Metropolitan Museum RESIDENCES visitors to make connections cultural center include diverse of Art donated a historic collection between contemporary life and exhibitions and fi lm series, as of 120 plaster casts to the ICAA. well as performances, readings, For the second year in a row, Open the art and ideas of the Himalayas. The collection represents rare, Visit the immersive Tibetan symposia, language courses, high artistry in the craft of mold House New York has partnered with Buddhist Shrine Room or tour the and more. Families can enjoy making and casting, and is an Curbed to open a curated selection exhibition “Monumental Lhasa” the Heimbold Family Children’s invaluable part of an education in of private residences around the city that explores iconic images of the Playing & Learning Center inspired traditional architecture and the that celebrate the Curbed mantra, Tibetan capital’s most important by Scandinavian early childhood allied arts. “love where you live.” From a model monuments. On Sunday, families education centers. LAMB & RICH, 1890; RENOVATION, with children can take part in JAMES POLSHEK (POLSHEK SETH WEINE, 2015. apartment in the recently converted PARTNERSHIP ARCHITECTS), 2000. Family Sundays activities. Mention Art Deco skyscraper 70 Pine to one OHNY Weekend for free admission! of the fi rst Passive House wood- 1915; RENOVATION, BEYER BLINDER Austrian Cultural Forum frame buildings in New York, the BELLE, 2004. Japan Society New York 333 E 47TH ST, MIDTOWN EAST Curbed Curates series opens doors 8 11 E 52ND ST, MIDTOWN to let you see how New Yorkers live. Marble Collegiate Church Sat & Sun • 11am-5pm. Tours at Sat • 10am-6pm. Tours ongoing, 12, 3pm both days. 1 W 29TH ST, FLATIRON DISTRICT every 30 mins. This elegant building was the fi rst Most Curbed residences require Sat • 12-4pm. Occupying the diminutive (25-ft building by a leading Japanese wide by 81-ft deep) mid-block Advance Reservations, as noted This prominent example of architect in New York City. Tours below. Watch for the icon in the site of a former townhouse, Romanesque Revival architecture will highlight the building’s exterior, this striking building rises to a upper right corner of this page, boasts an impressive marble the interior lobby space and 24-story height with the authority which appears alongside the listings exterior and bell tower and a fi nely second fl oor vista with refl ecting of a landmark, expressing the of the three Open Access sites. detailed interior featuring beautiful pool, waterfall, and gardens. After contextual relevance of both the stained glass windows (two of your tour, mention OHNY Weekend architecture and the Forum’s For more information about all which are Tiffany), cantilevered for half-price admission to the participating sites, visit: mission to connect European and balconies, original tile fl ooring, and gallery. American creative visions. mahogany pews. JUNZO YOSHIMURA, 1971; RAIMUND ABRAHAM, 2002. ohny.org/curbed 2 SAMUEL A. WARNER, 1854; RENOVATION, BEYER BLINDER BELLE, RENOVATION, HALPERN ASSOCIATES, 1998. 2012. PARTICIPATING SITES General Society Presbyterian Church Church of the 708 FIFTH AVE, MIDTOWN 1 70 Pine 7 Modern Apartment in of Mechanics and STEPHEN B. JACOBS GROUP The Apthorp Transfi guration Tradesmen of the City of Sat • 11am-5pm. Sun • 1-5pm. FINANCIAL DISTRICT, 1 E 29TH ST, FLATIRON DISTRICT New York Tours of the church will be offered MANHATTAN 20 W 44TH ST, MIDTOWN JENNIFER POST DESIGN Sat • 10:30am-4pm. Tours at on an ongoing basis throughout 2 The Charles UPPER WEST SIDE, MANHATTAN 10:30am, 1, 3pm (in English), 1pm Sat • 10am-5pm. both days. Organ tours will be (en Español); wedding talk & tour offered at 12, 2pm on Sat, and 1:45, ISMAEL LEYVA ARCHITECTS 8 SahoNYC at 12pm. Sun • 10:30am-3:30pm. This soaring, light-fi lled space— 3pm on Sun. UPPER EAST SIDE,MANHATTAN the second oldest library in New Tours at 1, 2:30pm (in English); Slip beneath the scaffolding RAFI ELBAZ children’s tour at 12:45pm. York City—is one of only three 3 Clifton Residence and step inside one of New York WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN remaining private membership PAUL A. CASTRUCCI ARCHITECT Built in the neo-Gothic style, circulating libraries, and houses City’s Gilded Age treasures. This BED-STUY/CLINTON HILL, Transfi guration has 14th-century 9 Serge Drouin the John M. Mossman Lock Victorian Gothic masterwork, BROOKLYN stained glass, elegant chapels, and Residence Collection, which contains more currently under restoration, a picturesque garden. The church 4 Chinatown Loft than 370 locks, keys, and tools includes rare innovations of the provided sanctuary to African- SERGE DROUIN ARCHITECT dating from 4,000 BC to the early period, such as a 19th-century Americans during the Civil War and BURO KORAY DUMAN GREENPOINT, BROOKLYN 20th century. heating and air conditioning CHINATOWN, MANHATTAN has a long-time association with system. The 1,800-seat sanctuary 10 Urby LAMB & RICH, 1890; RENOVATION, the acting community. Thousands contains no iconography (in Kane Residence RALPH SAMUEL TOWNSEND, 1903-05. 5 of couples were married at the keeping with early Presbyterian CONCRETE church during World War II. austerity) and no right angles. STAPLETON, STATEN ISLAND ID 810 DESIGN GROUP FREDERICK CLARKE WITHERS CARL PFEIFFER, 1875; RENOVATION, UPPER EAST SIDE, MANHATTAN (LYCH-GATE), OTHERS UNKNOWN, KATHERINE FREY, 2016. 6 Minetta Lane Residence 1849. 4 KUSHNER STUDIOS GREENWICH VILLAGE, MANHATTAN

Visit ohny.org for updates and information Open Access Sites Manhattan 25 Jazz at Lincoln Center St. Paul and St. Andrew St. Michael’s Episcopal Congregation Emanu-El of BROADWAY AT 60TH ST, 5TH FL, United Methodist Church Church the City of New York COLUMBUS CIRCLE 263 W 86TH ST, UPPER WEST SIDE 225 W 99TH ST, UPPER WEST SIDE ONE E 65TH ST, UPPER EAST SIDE Sun 10am-4pm. Tours at 11am, • Sat & Sun • 1:30-4:30pm. Tours Sat • 12-4pm. Sun • 1-4pm. Tours Sun • 12-4pm. Tours at 12:30, 1, 3pm. ongoing both days, every 30 mins. at 2, 3pm both days. 2:30pm. Get an intimate look at The Appel opendialogue Talks with Boling One of the city’s most beautiful Studio ongoing throughout. Built in the Modern Romanesque Room, Rose Theater, and JALC’s and important church designs, St. style popular in the late 1920s, night club and restaurant, Dizzy’s Sat • New York Jazz Academy Michael’s is now the Upper West concert at 2:15pm. Temple Emanu-El is the largest Club Coca-Cola. Check out the Side’s newest official New York City synagogue in the world, and one recently renovated lobby, which The main interior sanctuary of individual landmark! Outstanding of the largest houses of worship has woven these three distinctive this towering church features a features include its bold rock- in New York City with 2,500 seats.

spaces together into a unique ≥ AUSTRIAN CULTURAL FORUM second story semicircular balcony ≤ faced white limestone façade, The sanctuary features dazzling cultural destination dramatically under an arched roof that appears JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER soaring Italian-inspired tower, mosaics by noted muralist Hildreth situated at Columbus Circle, with to be held up by four larger- and dazzlingly colorful interior Meière, an intricately painted

sweeping views of Central Park ≥ ST. MICHAEL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH than-life marble angels. A series ≤ with extensive stained glass and ceiling, and towering stained glass THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY and the Midtown skyline. of clerestory windows on both mosaics by Tiffany. windows. RAFAEL VIÑOLY, 2004; LOBBY the north and south sides of the ROBERT W. GIBSON WITH TIFFANY STEIN, BUTLER, & COHEN, 1929; RENOVATION, ENNEAD ARCHITECTS, building flood the upper levels with GLASS & DECORATING COMPANY, RESTORATION, BEYER BLINDER BELLE, 2015. natural light. 1891; RESTORATION, ROHLF’S STAINED 2006. GLASS STUDIO, 2002 ROBERT HENDERSON ROBERTSON, UPPER WEST SIDE 1897; RENOVATION, BOLING STUDIO, 2000. UPPER EAST SIDE Frick Art Reference First Church of Christ, Library Mount Vernon Hotel 10 E 70TH ST, UPPER EAST SIDE Scientist West-Park Presbyterian 77 CENTRAL PARK WEST, UPPER WEST Museum & Garden Sat • 2-6pm. Tours at 2, 3, 4, 5pm. SIDE Church 421 E 61ST ST, UPPER EAST SIDE Sun • 12-4pm. Tours at 12, 1, 2, 3pm. 165 W 86TH ST, UPPER WEST SIDE Sat • 10am-5pm. Sun • 1-5pm. Sun • 11am-4pm. This six-story library, with its Sat 10am-6pm. Sun 2-6pm. Tours ongoing throughout both • • One of the few remaining 18th- French Revival exterior, displayed days. Tours of this landmark structure, century buildings in Manhattan, innovative features for its day, Discover the glorious Beaux-Arts believed to be the only remaining this converted carriage house was including air-conditioned stacks interior of this marble and granite Richardsonian Romanesque- a popular 19th-century country and dumb-waiters to move books church, meticulously restored in style church in Manhattan, will resort for New Yorkers escaping between floors in conjunction 2007. Once slated for demolition explore the church’s architectural, the crowded city below 14th with a Telautograph system. The and replacement by a residential religious, and social history, from Street. Walking through eight fully beautiful Italianate reading room is high-rise, First Church sparked the time architect Leopold Eidlitz’s furnished period rooms is like preserved much as it was in 1934. a grassroots movement, led by original chapel was built in 1884, taking a trip back to 1830s New JOHN RUSSELL POPE, 1934. LANDMARK WEST!, to create the through ongoing preservation York City. Activities are available Upper West Side/Central Park efforts today. for families with kids. 1799. West Historic District, now the LEOPOLD EIDLITZ, 1884; EXPANSION, Czech Center New York city’s largest. HENRY KILBURN, 1890. 321 E 73RD ST, UPPER EAST SIDE FREDERICK R. COMSTOCK, 1901; The Rockefeller Sat & Sun • 10am-6pm. Tours RESTORATION, SYDNESS ARCHITECTS, University ongoing throughout both days, 20 07. Congregation Ohab 1230 YORK AVE, UPPER EAST SIDE every 20 mins.

Zedek Sat • Tours at 10, 10:30, 11, 11:30, One of many social halls built in the Beacon Theatre 118 W 95TH ST, UPPER WEST SIDE 12, 12:30, 1, 1:30, 2, 2:30, 3, and nineteenth century for the city’s 3:30pm. immigrant ethnic communities, 2124 BROADWAY, UPPER WEST SIDE Sun • 10am-2pm. Tour at 10am. the Bohemian National Hall is a

Congregation Ohab Zedek ≥ BEACON THEATRE Since the groundbreaking of Sun • 10am-4pm. ≤ rare survivor. Today it is a vibrant embraces its history as one of the CONGREGATION OHAB ZEDEK its first building in 1904, The cultural hub featuring art galleries, Once you enter the doors of this oldest synagogues in New York, Rockefeller University has grown

ornate, landmarked theater, you ≥ TEMPLE EMANU-EL to include more than 20 buildings a Grand Ballroom, a rooftop terrace, and as a hub of modern orthodox ≤ cinema, library, and more. Special will be surrounded by a unique spiritual life. The soaring sanctuary BARNARD COLLEGE: DIANA CENTER on a 14-acre campus. Tours will site specific entertainment will mix of Greek, Roman, Spanish, features beautiful details, including showcase the Collaborative invigorate tours during OHNY Rococo, Moorish, Byzantine and an elaborate dome of stained glass Research Center, a LEED-certified Weekend Renaissance styles. Visit and be high overhead. laboratory complex; the recently WILLIAM C. FROHNE, 1896; transported back in time! The CHARLES B. MYERS, 1926. renovated Welch Hall; Founders Rotunda, Loge, and Balcony will Hall; the domed Caspary RENOVATION, JAN HIRD POKORNY, 1995; RENOVATION, MARTIN HOLUB, be open to tour, and the Orchestra Auditorium; The Rockefeller 2003; RENOVATION, ATELIER M1, 2007. area will be open for ADA guests. University Hospital; and other WALTER W. AHLSCHLAGER AND RAPP historic buildings. & RAPP, 1929; RESTORATION, MSGE, VARIOUS ARCHITECTS, FOUNDED 1901. 2009.

Visit ohny.org for updates and information Open Access Sites Manhattan 27 Ukrainian Institute of Barnard College: Diana HARLEM America Center Caribbean Cultural 2 E 79TH ST, UPPER EAST SIDE 3009 BROADWAY, MAIN GATE AT W 117TH STREET, MORNINGSIDE Center African Diaspora Sat • 10:30am-5pm. Tours at 11am, HEIGHTS Institute (CCCADI) @ 12, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5pm. 120 E 125TH ST, EAST HARLEM WIKIPEDIA Sun • 12-4pm. Tours at 12, 1, 2, 3pm. Located in the elaborate Gilded Sat • 11am-5pm. Age Harry F. Sinclair Mansion, the Opened in 2010, Barnard College’s institute's educational, professional Diana Center serves as a center The recently completed renovation OHNY WEEKEND and social activities promote a of student life for the country’s of this historic firehouse allows greater awareness, knowledge most sought-after liberal arts CCCADI to actively contribute and appreciation of Ukraine’s and college for women. The 98,000-sf to the arts and cultural spaces PHOTO COMPETITION Ukrainians’ rich culture, history, building houses several showcase so necessary in the underserved and accomplishments. Visitors will programs, a performance venue community of East Harlem. Open House New York and Wikimedia NYC invite you be able to tour the building up to and student spaces. Tours will The LEED Silver facility houses the fourth floor and view current highlight the features that earned dynamic programming including to participate in one of the largest collaboratively exhibits on Alexander Archipenko it the 2011 AIA Honor Award for artwork exhibits, performances, and more. and Socialist Realism. Architecture. compiled and edited media projects in history. NAPOLEON LEBRUN & SONS, 1889; C.P.H. GILBERT, 1898. WEISS/MANFREDI ARCHITECTURE/ RENOVATION, CSA GROUP, LI/ LANDSCAPE/URBANISM, 2010. Submit your best photos taken at SALTZMAN ARCHITECTS, 2016. any OHNY Weekend site or tour for

Museum of the City a chance to win prizes! Prizes will be WORKSHOP & of New York General Grant National The Studio Museum in awarded to the best photos in three HACKATHON 1220 FIFTH AVE, MUSEUM MILE Memorial Harlem categories - Interiors, Exteriors, and RIVERSIDE DR & 122ND ST, 144 W 125TH ST, HARLEM Sat & Sun • 10am-2pm. MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS Details - one of which will also be Want to learn more about how Sat 10am-6pm. Sun 12-6pm. During OHNY Weekend, families • • named a Grand Prize Winner. Each these photos will be catalogued Sat & Sun • 10am-5pm. Grounds Tours at 2, 3, 4pm both days. with children can visit the Museum tours with park rangers leave from category winner will receive a $100 and used on Wikipedia of the City of New York to become the adjacent Visitors Center at This museum serves as a nexus for voucher for New York City Photo articles? On Sunday, October secret agent architects, exploring 11:15am, 1:15, 3:15pm both days. artists of African descent locally, Safari, and one Grand Prize Winner 16 Wikimedia NYC will host a the museum in a family friendly nationally, and internationally, and This grand mausoleum— will also receive a $250 Amazon multimedia tutorial, workshop, scavenger hunt. Learn terms to for work that has been inspired and the largest in the Western and hackathon focused on describe architecture and the influenced by black culture. During Gift Card and a brand new Tamrac Hemisphere—is the final resting Wikimedia Commons and the names of various styles while OHNY Weekend, the Museum HooDoo 20 camera backpack. place of President Ulysses S. discovering the secrets of this is partnering with ARTNOIR to work processes for cultural Grant and his wife, Julia. Under an Colonial Revival building. present a weekend-long series of All submitted photographs will multimedia wiki-projects. awe-inspiring rotunda, visitors can thematic tours and workshops JOSEPH H. FREEDLANDER, 1930; look down into the open crypt, with become part of Wikimedia Commons, RENOVATION, ENNEAD ARCHITECTS, inspired by its summer exhibitions. Stop by the NYU Interactive stairs leading below. The tomb is a the online repository of free-use, 2016. 1914; RENOVATION, J. MAX BOND, JR., Telecommunications Program space of reverence and reflection; 1980S; ENTRY PAVILION, ROGERS public domain images that are used at 721 Broadway, Manhattan, M O R N I N G S I D E H E I G H T S please keep voices low when MARVEL ARCHITECTS, 2001-06. across Wikimedia—including as visiting. between 2 and 7:30pm to JOHN H. DUNCAN, 1897; RESTORATION, illustrations for Wikipedia articles. participate. Cathedral Church of St. 1 9 97. Harlem Educational Your photos could one day illustrate John the Divine Activities Fund an article about an OHNY Weekend 1047 AMSTERDAM AVE, MORNINGSIDE 2090 SEVENTH AVE (ADAM CLAYTON site, architecture, or New York City! HEIGHTS International House POWELL BLVD), HARLEM Sat • 2-6pm. Sun • 1-3pm. 500 RIVERSIDE DR, MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS Sat • Tours at 10, 11am, 12, 1pm. Submissions must be taken during OHNY Weekend on October 15 and 16, 2016 The Cathedral is an active house Visit the historic Hotel Theresa, and feature a participating site. The deadline to submit photos is Sunday, October of worship, arts, cultural, and civic Sat & Sun • 12-4pm. the only hotel that allowed Fidel 23 at 11:59pm. For more information about how to participate, and to see the center, as well as a feat of human Visit this “home away from home” Castro to stay on his visit to the engineering. Despite incomplete for more than 750 students and US in 1960! Guests will have the complete guidelines, visit ohny.org/2016-wikipedia construction, it is the largest fellows to explore a variety of opportunity to tour HEAF’s recently cathedral in the world, and features spaces—these include the Soros renovated space on the 10th floor, Byzantine-Romanesque and neo- Room, rarely open to the public, learn about the academic classes Gothic architecture. with its lavishly detailed 1834 hand- offered, and catch sweeping views Wikimedia NYC is an independent 501(c)3 organization that serves as the local Wikimedia chapter HEINS & LAFARGE AND RALPH ADAMS blocked wallpaper by Jean-Julien south over Central Park. for New York City and the metropolitan area. As a community nonprofit, Wikimedia NYC welcomes CRAM, 1892-PRESENT. Deltil that can only otherwise be GEORGE & EDWARD BLUM, 1913; educational and cultural partnerships with all local institutions interested in the further expansion found in the Diplomatic Reception RENOVATION, GENSLER, 2015. and diversification of free knowledge. Room of the White House, installed by Jacqueline Kennedy in 1961. PLEASE NOTE: In keeping with the guidelines of Wikimedia Commons, all photos entered into the LOUIS E. JALLADE, 1924; SOROS ROOM Wikipedia @ OHNY Weekend Photo Competition will be considered to be freely licensed under the & DODGE ROOM RESTORATIONS, RALPH HARVARD, 2005 & 2008. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, permitting free use for any purpose and the creation of derivative works.

Visit ohny.org for updates and information City College of New York: T H E H E I G H T S & I N W O O D United Palace Solar Roofpod & Harlem 4140 BROADWAY, WASHINGTON Queens HEIGHTS Garden for Urban Food Hispanic Society of SPITZER SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, America Sat • 10am-2pm. A S T O R I A & L O N G I S L A N D C I T Y 141 CONVENT AVE AT W 135TH ST, BROADWAY BTWN 155TH & 156TH STS, Opened as the last of the five HARLEM WASHINGTON HEIGHTS Loew's "Wonder Theatres," noted Sat • 10am-5pm. opendialogue Sat & Sun • 12-4pm. Tours at 12, architecture critic David Dunlap Welling Court Mural Project Tours with Christlan Volkmann at 1, 2pm both days. once described this 3,400-seat 11-90 WELLING CT, ASTORIA 2:30, 4pm. Visit this gem of a museum, theater's style as "Byzantine- Sat & Sun • 10am-6pm. Tours at Visit the rooftop of Spitzer’s Rafael located within the historic Audubon Romanesque-Indo-Hindu-Sino- 11am, 2, 4:30pm both days. Moorish-Persian-Eclectic-Rococo-

Viñoly-designed building to see Terrace cultural complex, to explore ≥ UNITED PALACE Come tour this groundbreaking ≤ Deco." The building was purchased the Solar Roofpod and urban farm. the extensive art collection and JEFFREY'S HOOK LIGHTHOUSE street art project—featuring more and preserved by Frederick J. This student-designed 800-sf sumptuous interiors, including a than a hundred murals—with the

micro-dwelling is now surrounded library featuring 600,000 books, ≥ GENERAL GRANT NATIONAL MEMORIAL Eikerenkoetter II—aka Rev. Ike—in ≤ organizers, artists, and residents 1969. It is now also home to by a garden that provides Harlem manuscripts, documents, and INTERNATIONAL HOUSE that help make it all happen. Sticker the non-profit United Palace of residents and students with hands- letters dating from the 10th-century Social Club will be leading sticker- Cultural Arts. on experience raising agricultural to the present day. making sessions throughout the THOMAS LAMB WITH HAROLD crops. Built for the 2011 Solar CHARLES PRATT HUNTINGTON, day for kids of all ages! Decathlon, the Roofpod was STANFORD WHITE, & CASS GILBERT, RAMBUSCH, 1930. 1908. AD HOC ART, 2009; REPAINTED installed on the roof in 2014. ANNUALLY, 2ND SATURDAY IN JUNE. CHRISTIAN VOLKMANN, WITH 100+ ARCHITECTURE AND ENGINEERING Jeffrey’s Hook Lighthouse STUDENTS, 2011-14. Marjorie Eliot's Parlor FT WASHINGTON PARK, WASHINGTON The Noguchi Museum HEIGHTS Jazz 9-01 33RD RD, ASTORIA 555 EDGECOMBE AVE, #3F, Sun • 11am-4pm. Tours ongoing, City College of New York: WASHINGTON HEIGHTS Sat & Sun • 11am-6pm. Tours The Great Hall every 30 mins. with curators at 1pm both days. Sun • 1, 3:30pm. SHEPARD HALL, 160 CONVENT AVE AT W Get the opportunity to walk inside Mention OHNY Weekend to visit 139TH ST, HARLEM The building is a designated city the Jeffrey’s Hook Lighthouse, this 27,000-sf gallery and outdoor erected in 1880 in Sandy Hook, Sat • 10am-2pm. opendialogue and national landmark—but the sculpture garden for free! The Tours with Carl Stein, FAIA, at 10, status of "living treasure" was New Jersey, and moved to its “Highlights from the Collection:

11am, 12, 1pm. only awarded to the apartment of ≤ HARLEM EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES current site in 1921. It has been Design Into Art” exhibition Marjorie Eliot, who for over 20 years FUND widely known as the children’s Within the iconic Shepard Hall tour focuses on the permeable has hosted audiences from all over literary landmark “The Little Red membrane between art and building is the Great Hall, a jewel of the world when she honors the Lighthouse.” Tours are first come, design in Noguchi’s work. George B. Post’s grand design for legacy of African American music, first served. the City College campus. Built in 1927; RENOVATION, SAGE AND bridging cultures and communities MARINE COAST GUARD, 1880. the tradition of the great European COOMBE ARCHITECTS, 2004. through her parlor jazz concerts. universities, and one of the largest Two concerts will take place during rooms in all of New York City, this OHNY Weekend; space is limited, Fort Tryon Cottage & cathedral-like space features Socrates Sculpture Park and is first-come, first-served! Heather Garden a stunning mural and massive 32-01 VERNON BLVD, ASTORIA stained glass windows. 741 FT WASHINGTON AVE, WASHINGTON HEIGHTS Sat • 10am-6pm. opendialogue GEORGE B. POST, 1907; RESTORATION, Tour with Hou de Sousa at 2pm. ELEMENTAL, ONGOING. Morris-Jumel Mansion Sat & Sun • 12-4pm. Tours of the 65 JUMEL TER, WASHINGTON HEIGHTS cottage onging both days, every 20 During OHNY Weekend, visit this mins; tours of the Heather Garden former industrial site-turned- Sat & Sun • 10am-6pm. Tours at every 30 mins. sculpture park to join architects Hamilton Grange 12, 3pm both days. Hou de Sousa for a tour of National Memorial Donated to the city by John D. At 250 years old, this is "Sticks," the park’s brand new 414 W 141ST ST, HARLEM Rockefeller Jr., Fort Tryon Park Manhattan's oldest house! Built encompasses 67 acres with open air education studio. 1986. Sat • 5:30-8:30pm. Tours ongoing in 1765 by British Army Colonel majestic views of the Hudson throughout the evening. Roger Morris, the Mansion served

≥ SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK River. Initially, the 1905 cottage as the headquarters of Gen. ≤

Normally open to the public during MARINE AIR TERMINAL was the gatekeeper’s house for Greater Astoria Historical the day, experience the Grange— George Washington during the ≤ C.G.K. Billing’s mansion, Tryon Society 1776 Battle of New York. Today, CCNY GREAT HALL the only home ever owned by Hall. Rockefeller and the Olmsted 35-20 BROADWAY, 4TH FL, ASTORIA the mansion is a not-for-profit Alexander Hamilton—after hours Brothers incorporated the during OHNY Weekend. Named museum committed to preserving, Sat & Sun • 12-4pm. Tours at 1, gatehouse into the park’s design. after Hamilton's ancestral home interpreting, and making relevant 3pm both days. Sat • Talk at 2pm. to diverse audiences this building's COTTAGE, GUY LOWELL, 1908; in Scotland, it was intended to be GARDEN, FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED, Exhibits include “Old Astoria Village a summer estate on land that was illustrious past. Family friendly JR, 1935. (c. 1750 - 2016),” “The Lent-Riker then miles away from the teeming craft projects will be available House (c. 1660),” “Building the city. Access is limited and long lines throughout the day. 1765. Hell Gate Bridge 1916,” and “Last are expected, so arrive early! Novemeber in AQ,” a retrospective JOHN MCCOMB, JR., 1802; photo journal capturing Astoria and RENOVATION, JOHN B. WAITE Long Island City each day over the ASSOCIATES, 2011. period of a month. 1923.

Visit ohny.org for updates and information Visit ohny.org for updates and informationOpen Access Sites Queens 31 Brooklyn Grange F L U S H I N G M E A D O W S FLUSHING The Hindu Temple Society C O R O N A PA R K 37-18 NORTHERN BLVD, ROOF, LONG of North America ISLAND CITY Flushing Quaker 45-57 BOWNE ST, FLUSHING Sat • 11am-4pm. New York Hall of Meeting House Sat • 10am-2pm. Sun • 2-6pm. Science 137-16 NORTHERN BLVD, FLUSHING Tours ongoing throughout. Brooklyn Grange is the leading 47-01 111TH ST, FLUSHING MEADOWS Sat & Sun • 12-4pm. Tours Tour this site’s main prayer hall, rooftop farming and intensive CORONA PARK green roofing business in the ongoing throughout. featuring nine shrines of black US. Visit one of the city’s largest Sun • 12-4pm. opendialogue Built in 1694 by Quakers, this is the granite; single-stone holy idols; rooftop farms atop the historic Tours with Ennead Architects oldest house of worship in New York twenty wall shrines with metal Standard Motors Products ongoing throughout. City and the second oldest Quaker idols; five domes; four towers on Building, featuring panoramic The Great Hall was constructed meeting house in the nation. The the cardinal directions; a 50-ft views of the city. City Growers will for the 1964-65 World’s Fair. With Dutch ecclesiastical building tall east-facing main tower; and host family-friendly workshops no corners or straight walls, this remains substantially as it was artistically carved teak wood and children’s activities (ages 2 truly one-of-a-kind building is an after being enlarged in 1721. doors and silver chariots. and up) during the farm’s open example of a technique called JOHN BOWNE, 1694. MUTHIAH STHAPATI AND VILAS ≥ NEW YORK STATE PAVILLION PRABHAT, 1977; EXPANSION, 2009-11. market hours. "dalle de verre," with more than BROMLEY CALDARI, 2010. 5,000 2 x 3-ft cobalt-blue glass and concrete panels comprising ≥ SNUG HARBOR CULTURAL CENTER Lewis H. Latimer House SO U T H E R N Q U E E N S

the facade. Mention OHNY & BOTANICAL GARDEN JACKSON HEIGHTS & CORONA ≤ Museum Weekend for free museum ALICE AUSTEN HOUSE admission. 34-41 137TH ST, FLUSHING Nowadays Marine Air Terminal WALLACE K. HARRISON, 1964; Sat & Sun • 10am-6pm. Tours 56-06 COOPER AVE, RIDGEWOOD LAGUARDIA AIRPORT TERMINAL A, RESTORATION, ENNEAD ARCHITECTS every 30 mins. Sat 2-6pm opendialogue MARINE TERMINAL RD, JACKSON 2015. • . Tours with Future Green Studio HEIGHTS Latimer, the son of fugitive slaves, was an African American inventor at 2, 3, 4pm Sat & Sun • 10am-2pm. whose innovations in designing Future Green Studio designed Celebrating the glamorous days Queens Museum carbon filaments ushered in and built this 18,000-sf outdoor of transatlantic air travel, the main NYC BUILDING, FLUSHING MEADOWS the age of electric light. As an hangout space, created by the CORONA PARK room of the Marine Air Terminal African American landmark in a legendary Mister Sunday team, by remains one of the city’s most Sun • 12-4pm. Panorama tours at predominantly Asian immigrant taking its cues for the design from distinctive Art Deco interiors. The 1, 3pm. opendialogue Tours with community, the house adopts the existing post-industrial site terminal’s striking circular atrium Grimshaw Architects ongoing bilingual approaches and applies and transforming it into a park- is planned with rational simplicity, throughout. cultural sensitivity to facilitate like setting to provide a relaxed and features a wraparound mural Housed in the historic New York cross-cultural conversations. outdoor environment for all ages. depicting the history of man’s City Building, site of both the 1939 CA. 1887; RESTORATION, 1988. Please note that Nowadays will quest to conquer the skies. and 1964-65 World's Fairs and the not be open for business during WILLIAM ADAMS DELANO, 1939; first home of the United Nations, touring hours. RENOVATION, BEYER BLINDER BELLE, ≥ THE HINDU TEMPLE SOCIETY OF the Queens Museum has become FUTURE GREEN STUDIO, 2015. 2005. NORTH AMERICA Bowne House Museum

the principal center for modern and ≤ NOWADAYS 37-01 BOWNE ST, FLUSHING contemporary art in the borough as well as home to a collection of Sun • 12-5pm. Tours at 12, 1, 2, Gemini Fields 3, 4pm. Louis Armstrong House world's fair memorabilia. 83-12 S CONDUIT AVE, HOWARD BEACH Museum Visit the oldest house in Queens— AYMAR EMBURY III, 1939; RENOVATION, Sat & Sun • 10am-2pm. 34-56 107TH ST, CORONA RAFAEL VIÑOLY, 1994; RENOVATION, among the oldest in the city— GRIMSHAW ARCHITECTS, 2013. This verdant five-acre site, Sat & Sun • 12-5pm. Tours every where storytellers Joshua Jelly- hour, both days. Schapiro and Garnette Cadogan of featuring a large rodeo-sized “Nonstop Metropolis: A New York arena and approximately a dozen No one has lived in this house New York State Pavilion City Atlas,” will explore the deep stalls, is home to GallopNYC, since the Armstrongs, and the legacies of religious pluralism in a non-profit organization that house and its furnishings remain 14 UNITED NATIONS AVE S, FLUSHING MEADOWS CORONA PARK Flushing. provides therapeutic horseback very much as they were during JOHN BOWNE, CA. 1660. riding to youth, adults and Louis and Lucille’s lifetime. On Sun • 12-4pm. Tours ongoing veterans with disabilities. Visit

the tour, audio clips from Louis' throughout the afternoon. ≥ BATTERY WEED ≤ during OHNY Weekend for your homemade recordings are Step inside to appreciate this JACQUES MARCHAIS MUSEUM chance to ride a horse!

Voelker Orth Museum played, and visitors can hear iconic structure’s fresh new coat ≤ this American legend practicing of “American Cheese” yellow KING MANOR 149-19 38TH AVE, FLUSHING his trumpet, enjoying a meal, or paint, recently donated by the Sat & Sun • 12-4pm. talking with his friends. New York Structural Steel Painting CA. 1910; RENOVATION, BUTTRICK, Contractors Association. The New Home to three generations of a WHITE AND BURTIS ARCHITECTS, 2003. York State Pavilion Painting Project German immigrant family, the will be on hand to talk about the last heir donated the property history of the site, and tours of the to establish the museum World’s Fair grounds will be given dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of the area’s cultural by NYC Parks docents. and horticultural heritage. PHILIP JOHNSON AND LEV ZETLIN, 1962-64. 1891; RESTORATION, GRAF & LEWENT, 2003.

Visit ohny.org for updates and information Open Access Sites Queens 33 King Manor Museum National Lighthouse Battery Weed 150-03 JAMAICA AVE, JAMAICA Museum FORT WADSWORTH-GATEWAY NATIONAL RECREATION AREA Sat & Sun • 1-5pm. Tours every 200 THE PROMENADE AT LIGHTHOUSE POINT, ST. GEORGE VISITORS CENTER, 120 NEW YORK AVE, 30 mins. ROSEBANK Tour the historic home of Rufus Sat & Sun • 11am-4:30pm. Tours at 12, 1, 2, 3, 4pm both days. Sat • 12-4pm. Tours at 12, 2, 4pm. King, author and signer of the Fort Wadsworth is one of the Constitution, two-term New York Six historical buildings date back oldest military installations in Senator and anti-slavery advocate; to the time that this site was the the nation. The site occupies 226 and his son John King, abolitionist location of the U.S. Lighthouse acres along the Narrows of New and New York governor. On Service, which manufactured all York Harbor. Rich in history and Saturday from 1-4pm, staff of the items used by lighthouses natural beauty, Fort Wadsworth will offer hands-on activities around the U.S. Visitors will see

affords the opportunity to including butter churning, apple the “Wall of Lights,” with more ≤ observe an important part of our cider pressing, historic cooking than 160 Lighthouse Models, and nation’s history, while offering demonstrations, and other fall- a host of other unique exhibits. magnifi cent views of New York based crafts. 1862-1912; RENOVATION, SKOLNICK Harbor. CA 1755. ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN PARTNERSHIP, 2015. JOSEPH GILBERT TOTTEN, 1847-1864.

CENTRAL & SOUTHERN Staten Island Staten Island STATEN ISLAND MakerSpace 450 FRONT ST, UNIT B, STAPLETON NORTH SHORE Sat & Sun 10am-2pm. Jacques Marchais • Museum of Tibetan Art This 6,000-sf non-profi t Snug Harbor Cultural 338 LIGHTHOUSE AVE, LIGHTHOUSE community workspace and small HILL Center & Botanical Garden business incubator houses a collezioni: pietra del nord nero - statuario glossy 1000 RICHMOND TER, NORTH GATE, Sat & Sun • 12-4pm. Sat • Tours [email protected] metalshop, woodshop, sewing lab, 152 Madison Avenue LIVINGSTON at 2, 3pm. Sun Tour & screening computer lab with 3D printers, • New York, NY 10016 at 1:30pm. Sat & Sun • 10am-5pm. conference room, large project Sat • Tours at 11am, 1pm. space, individual studios, a large, This unique hillside museum was Sun • Tours at 1, 3pm. open work area, CNC router, designed by Jacques Marchais, a One of the largest, ongoing laser cutter and more in a former remarkable American woman who adaptive reuse projects in locomotive repair shop. Children's was an early collector of Tibetan America, Snug Harbor—built as tours are available upon request! Buddhist Art. The buildings were the fi rst home for retired sailors DAVID BUSINELLI, 2014. designed to resemble a small in the —consists Himalayan mountain monastery and they are the earliest examples of 26 historic buildings, nine ROSEBANK distinctive botanical gardens, a of Tibetan style-architecture in the United States. Children can DSGNFIX two-acre urban farm, and 10 acres Use dsgnfi x to navigate the city this OHNY of wetlands on a unique 83-acre, Alice Austen House even create their own prayer fl ags Weekend. dsgnfi x is a free, location-based park-like campus. 2 HYLAN BLVD, ROSEBANK during their visit. JACQUES MARCHAIS AND JOSEPH MARTIN E. THOMPSON, MINARD iPhone app that enables you to search, Sat & Sun • 11am-5pm. PRIMIANO, 1947. LAFEVER, 1833. discover and share design destinations. Located in a lovely park near During OHNY Weekend, all Open Access the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge sites will be listed on dsgnfi x with location Noble Maritime Collection with sweeping views of New York Historic Houses of Harbor, this museum is dedicated Conference House Park and times. It’s a great tool to fi nd where to 1000 RICHMOND TER, BUILDING D, go next - dsgnfi x uses your location to map LIVINGSTON to the life and work of Alice 298 SATTERLEE ST, TOTTENVILLE Austen. The museum contains the sites that are closest to you. Sat & Sun 1-5pm. Sat & Sun • 12-4pm. Sat Tour • three period rooms, including with Natural Areas Conservancy You can also use dsgnfi x to post and share This site offers programs and Austen’s recently renovated at 11am. services that fulfi ll a mission to darkroom, photography galleries, your own design discoveries - a building, a Visit the park's four historic preserve and interpret the art and and library. park, a unique view. Take a picture, write houses, including the namesake writings of artist John A. Noble 1690; RESTORATION, BEYER BLINDER a description, and post to share with your Conference House, a grand (1913-1983), to celebrate the BELLE, 1985; RESTORATION, friends, OHNY Weekend explorers, and the history of New York Harbor, and BARNHART RESTORATION & DESIGN, manor house refl ecting the 2014. colonial vernacular of the late 17th dsgnfi x community. Visit the App Store on to preserve the history of Sailors' your iPhone and search for “dsgnfi x” to Snug Harbor. Its centerpiece is century; the H.H. Biddle House; Noble's houseboat studio, which is Rutan-Beckett House; and Ward download the app today, or visit fully-restored and installed within House. Arts and crafts for families will be available from 1-3pm on www.dsgnfi x.com the museum. MINARD LAFEVER, 1844. Saturday. VARIOUS ARCHITECTS, 1680, 1835, Please note: dsgnfi x is availably only for 1840, 1930. iPhone users at the current time.

VisitVisit ohny.orgohny.org forfor updatesupdates andand informationinformation Open Access Sites Staten Island 35 SPECIAL THANKS OPEN HOUSE NEW YORK PHOTO CREDITS, To the more than 1,300 people who volunteer at sites across GOVERNING BOARD IN ORDER OF About the Cover the city to make this event possible—especially the District Roy Kim, President APPEARANCE: Each year, Open House New York works with the talented Coordinators who each volunteer their entire weekend to make Stephan Jaklitsch, Vice President (Top-to-bottom, left-to-right) pg 2-3: designers at PS New York to create a special cover image for the OHNY Weekend event guide, one that connects OHNY sure that everything runs smoothly across the city: Peter Adams, Michael Samuelian, Secretary Ben Helmer; pg 4-5: Ben Helmer; with the living city. Eric Ball, Nicholas Bergson-Shilcock, Bahij Chancey, Wyatt Cmar Katie Dixon, Treasurer pg 6: Bitpixdigital via Wikimedia Commons; pg 7: Samir Abady/ Albert Cua, Allison Donolli-Lamorte, Connie Finstad, Jacob Ford, Sherlen Archibald This year, we took inspiration from the classic neon signs WHEDco, Andrew Freedman Home, that animate shop fronts and store windows across New Kate Foster, Moses Gates, Bridget Gramling, Elizabeth Green, Cristobal Correa Bronx Community College, Enki323 York. To fabricate our very own neon sign, we turned to Tiffanie Green, Michael Hirsch, Vanessa Ip, John Kelly, Katie Kenneth Drucker via Wikimedia Commons; pg 8: Bronx the masters at Lite Brite Neon, a collective in Gowanus Killary, Ethan Lercher, Angela Manginelli, Gabriel Mendez, Lisa Dorothy Dunn County Historical Society, Dafoell specializing in the production of neon art and display. Lite Morasco, Charlotte Pao, Richard Post, Michael Roque, Jacqueline Jonathan L. Geballe, Esq. via Wikimedia Commons, Ein Lee Brite’s work with some of the most important artists and Shaw, Ashley Spatafore, Chad Spielmann, Leah Strigler, Jessica David Gruber Smith, Peter Mauss/Esto; pg 9: NYC designers in the country has been seen everywhere from the Tacceta, and Fiona Torres. Louise Harpman Parks, Chuck Choi, Nelson Byrd cover of to the galleries of the Museum Woltz Landscape Architects, Bob Robert Herrick of Modern Art. Handelman courtesy Pratt Institute; Once we had a sign, we needed somewhere to hang it, To Sherlen Archibald (AGW Group), Nadia Nascimento, and Larry Elizabeth Kubany pg 10-11: National Park Service; pg 12: and our new friends at A/D/O were kind enough to play Ossei-Mensah for organizing the special series ARTNOIR: City of Adam Kushner Freight Farms, New York Sun Works, host. Set to open in a 23,000 square-foot renovated Caroline Otto The Sketchbook Project, A/D/O; pg Cultural Exchange. Greenpoint warehouse later this year, A/D/O will create a Timothy Quinlan 13: Kings County Brewers Collective, new environment tailored for design professionals — yet Fran Parante, Amy Barkow, Steve Anne Rieselbach open to all — that will stimulate and inspire interdisciplinary To Jessica Dailey and the Curbed New York team for organizing McGill; pg 14: Stantec, Kristina E. Rob Rogers collaboration while offering resources and a platform for the special series Curbed Curates: Residences. (And to the Knipe, Marc Lins courtesy of Selldorf Abby Jo Sigal developing talent. intrepid homeowners who welcomed thousands of New Yorkers Architects, Vantrogh via Wikimedia into their private homes this year!) Karen Stonely Commons; pg 15: Jeffrey Totaro, All we needed then was the brilliant eye of photographer Margaret Sullivan Matt Lambros, East Midwood Jewish Christopher Payne, who captured the photo featured on this Saundra Thomas Center, Alyssa Loorya; pg 16: Iwan year’s cover. To Kathy Shea and the New York Chapter of the American Society Claire Weisz Baan, dlandstudio architecture + of Landscape Architects for organizing the special series New Tour the cover! Lite Brite Neon and A/D/O will both open landscape architecture pllc, Iwan to the public during this year’s OHNY Weekend. Check out Landscapes New York. Baan; pg 17: Iwan Baan, Daniel Avila/ the Open Access listings in this guide for more info, or visit STAFF NYC Parks, Malcolm Pinckney; www.ohny.org. To Joshua Laird, Suzanne McCarthy, and all of our friends at pg 18: National Park Service, Kathryn Gregory Wessner, Yu, Yuriy Chernits, Rose Associates; the National Park Service, including Michael Amato, Barbara Executive Director pg 19: Andrew Moore, Matthew Applebaum, Laura Brennan, Jimmy Cleckley, Allan Dailey, Brian Brendan Crain, Program Director Minor, National Park Service, Feeney, Sean Ghazala, Shirley McKinney, Vladimir Merzlyakov, Mmuseumm; pg 20: United Palace, Rita Mullally, John Piltzecker, Daniel Prebutt, Patti Reilly, Minka Elis Shin, Development & David Sundberg/Esto, Museum of Sendich, Michael Shaver, Don Stanko, Liam Strain, and George Communications Manager Art & Origins; pg 22: Colin Miller, Peter Aaron/OTTO, The Sylvia Wald Tonkin. It’s an honor to have been a part of the NPS centennial Ben Pardee, celebrations! & Po Kim Gallery, Sotheby's; pg Development & Membership 23: NgManhattan via Wikimedia Assistant Commons, , To Richard Knipel of Wikimedia NYC for organizing this year’s Roger Braimon, General Society of Ashley Davis, photo competition, and Zim Pham of New York City Photo Safari Mechanics and Tradesmen; pg 24: Volunteer Coordinator for generously donating prizes for the winners. Carrie Buell, Frances Katzen, Peter Murdock; pg 26: David Plakke, Jazz at Lincoln Center, MSGE Photo To Dee Dunn and Chuck Routhier for donating their time and Services, Congregation Ohab Zedek; resources to make OHNY Weekend sites available on the dsgnfi x ABOUT pg 27: St. Michael's Episcopal app. OPEN HOUSE NEW YORK Church, Ben Helmer, Suzy Auriel Open House New York is a non-profi t Photography, Barnard College; pg 29: organization that provides curated OHNY, David Mark Erickson, Odette And to the hundreds of people—a list far too long to fi t in the experiences and insider access Veneziano, OHNY, Odette Veneziano; space available—at participating OHNY Weekend sites across all to spaces across New York City pg 30: Architecturalimagery via fi ve boroughs for welcoming your fellow New Yorkers and visitors through the annual Open House Wikimedia Commons, International Above: cover process shots from around the world. We can think of no other event in the New York Weekend and year-round House, Beyond My Ken via Wikimedia world’s greatest city that relies so completely on the generosity programming, inspiring curiosity, Commons, Gigi Altarejos via Wikimedia Commons; pg 31: United and openness of so many individuals. Without you, OHNY establishing community, and Art Direction fostering dialogue around the future Palace, Historic House Trust, Hou de Weekend would be impossible! psnewyork.com, Penny Hardy, Pauline Shin of the city. Sousa, AtDisneyAgain via Wikimedia Commons; pg 33: Yi-han Cao; pg 34: Artwork For more information, visit Daniel Avila/NYC Parks, Benniken via litebriteneon.com, Lite Brite Neon Studio Wikimedia Commons, Tod Seelie/ Photography www.ohny.org Nowadays, King Manor Museum; chrispaynephoto.com, Christopher Payne OHNY is a member of pg 35: Patrick Grenier, Floto+Warner, Open House Worldwide, a global National Park Service, Jacques network of Open House events. Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art; Open House New York pg 39: Penny Hardy, Wayne Heller, 1133 Broadway, Suite 802 Christopher Payne New York, NY 10010 212.991.6470

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