September 28, 2006

180 free sites on board for Open House New York

Open House New York today is releasing its full list of 180 sites that will be open for free public access the weekend of October 7 and 8. Highlights include normally off-limits portions of the United Nations, a Rockefeller Center roof garden, the underground infrastructure of the Art Deco Astoria Pool, artist Tom Otterness' studio and an active archaeological dig at King Manor Museum.

Also new this year: podcasts.

Some locations will only be open one day, and several require advance reservations.

The full list will be available at OHNY's website. (Although some sites previously announced, including Ellis Island's hospital and Governors Island, aren't yet on the online list.) More highlights here:

Manhattan
United Nations delegate's entrance, Secretariat Building lobby and garden
roof garden of British Empire Building at Rockefeller Center
Jefferson Market Branch Library Tower
observation deck of the Little Red Lighthouse
newly renovated Federal Hall National Memorial
lobby of the Chrysler Building
MTA Substation at 53rd Street*
Grand Central Terminal tour with its renovation architect*
Murray's Cheese underground caves*
tour Lilac, a 172-ft, riveted-steel lighthouse tender
Temple Emanu-El, the world's biggest synagogue
Washington Irving High School
High Bridge Water Tower*
The renovated lunatic asylum, Octagon & Lighthouse Park
New York and New York City Marble cemeteries (the two oldest in the city)
Trustees' Room of the NY Public Library
Snohetta AS, NY, a former Cunard ticket office
Ernest Flagg Rectory and east yard of St. Mark's-in-the-Bowery
Paul Rudolph Foundation/Modulightor Building
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum*
tour Ling Loft, a converted 19th century dental factory now with a moat
General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church
View The High Line from the platform of a former meatpacking building*
View NY Times Building construction from the Design Gallery adjacent to the site
The Orozco Room at the New School
Grand Lodge of Masons
Terrapin Chelsea Art Gallery, with a Yangtze River flowing through the living room
roof gardens and interior of The Arsenal in Central Park
restored Loeb Boathouse in Central Park

Harry F. Sinclair House (The Ukranian Institute)
The Solaire, NYCs first green residential tower
Barnard College's Arthur Ross Greenhouse
The Calhoun School green roof
Common Ground/ The Prince George Ballroom
EverGreene Painting Studios, Inc.*
Croton Aqueduct's fortress-like Gatehouse*
observation deck of the General Grant National Memorial
renovated historic buildings of Instituto Cervantes at Amster Yard
Carlton Hotel renovation
Harlem Row House

Queens
Tour an active archaeological dig at King Manor Museum
underground infrastructure of the Astoria Pool
Queens Botanical Garden, a 1939 New York World's Fair exhibit
Fort Tilden's gun bunkers and Nike missile site
refurbished Jacob Riis Park Bathhouse
Old Quaker Meeting House, the state's oldest house of worship
Flux Factory

Brooklyn
Ground floor of One Hanson Place (Williamsburgh Bank)
Tom Otterness' 4th Street Studio*
backstage at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
underground tunnels at Floyd Bennett Field
tours of the 1930s-era Mary A. Whalen fuel tanker at Red Hook
re-enactment of the Revolutionary battle at Old Stone House
Tiffany & Co. interior of the Pratt Institute Library
roof of Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Arch at Grand Army Plaza
The Montauk Club
Urban Glass tours

Staten Island
attic of the Staten Island Museum
renovated St. George Theatre
Moravian Cemetery

Bronx
225-year old wooden staircase of St. Paul's Church
eight private mausoleums at Woodlawn Cemetery
Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum

* tour reservations required

Earlier: Rock Center roof garden, cheese caves on OHNY
Open House sneak preview: Federal Hall, Chrysler
Open House NY 2006 set for October 7 and 8

September 28, 2006 07:02 AM in Architecture, Cheap Stuff, Downtown, History, Kids, Midtown, Museums, Out of Manhattan, Sightsology, Tours, Upper East Side, Upper West Side

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