October 08, 2006
OHNY Sunday: roof gardens and old cemeteries
Open House New York continues today with more than 75 free events (listed below) that require no reservations.
A Rockefeller Center private roof garden, the lobby of the Chrysler Building and the old Williamsburgh Bank, the oldest cemeteries in the city and the top of the Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Arch at Grand Army Plaza are among the spots with no-reservations, open-access today.
The former lunatic asylum the Octagon, (pictured above and left,) has recently been turned into condos, but its turning interior stairwell has been recreated. (Just make sure to bring two quarters if you plan to take Roosevelt Island's non-MTA bus to and from the skytram.)
 Also of note is the New York City Marble Cemetery (pictured right and after the jump,) on Second Street between First and Second avenues, which only three years ago opened its doors to the public for the first time in 172 years. It's now open only twice a year, in fall for OHNY and again in Late April or May.
Resources: MTA's weekend subway rerouting
Open House New York cheat sheet links
Flickr OHNY photo pool
Full list of easy-to-access sites after the jump.
These are today's sites with open access or frequent tours with no reservations required. See OHNY's site for the complete list of today's events.
Manhattan
Anderson architects studio and roof deck, Chelsea
Build a Green Bakery, East Village
Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, Morningside Heights
Center for Architecture, Greenwich Village
Chelsea Market, Chelsea
lobby of Chrysler Building (but Sunday's OpenDialogue talk canceled)
Church For All Nations, Hell's Kitchen
Church of the Crucifixion, Harlem
Church of the Transfiguration, Murray Hill
Clodagh Design studios, NoHo
Prince George Ballroom, Murray Hill
Federal Hall National Memorial, Wall Street
General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church, Chelsea
Grace Church, Greenwich Village
Grand Lodge of Masons , Chelsea
Harry F. Sinclair House (Ukrainian Institute of America), Upper East Side
Heritage Housing Headquarters, West Harlem
High Bridge Water Tower, Washington Heights
High Line viewing, Meatpacking District
International Center of Photography, Midtown
Leroy Street Studio, Chinatown
Lilac lighthouse tender, West Village
Ling Loft, Gramercy
Morris-Jumel Mansion, Washington Heights
Mount Morris Park Residence, Harlem
Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden, Upper East Side
Museum of Arts & Design , Midtown
Museum of Biblical Art, Upper West Side
Museum of the City of New York, Upper East Side
New York City Marble Cemetery, East Village
New York Marble Cemetery, East Village
Octagon & Lighthouse Park, Roosevelt Island
Our Lady of the Scapular & St. Stephen's Church, Rose Hill
P.S. 260 penthouse, Flatiron district
Rockefeller Center Rooftop Garden, Midtown
Rubin Museum of Art, Chelsea
Saint Ann School Play Space, East Harlem
St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery , East Village
St. Michael's Church, Upper West Side
Scandinavia House, Murray Hill
former Cunard office at Snohetta AS, NY, Bowling Green
Solar 1, Stuyvesant Town
STUDIOS Architecture, SoHo
TEK Architects Office, Carnegie Hill
Temple Emanu-El, Upper East Side
Tenri Cultural Institute of New York, Greenwich Village
Terrapin Chelsea Art Gallery, Chelsea
Van Alen Institute, Flatiron
Washington Irving High School, Union Square
Bronx
Woodlawn Cemetery
Bronx Charter School for the Arts
Bronx Museum of the Arts
Bronx Preparatory Charter School
Hall of Fame of Great Americans
Van Cortlandt House
Brooklyn
top of Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Arch at Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn Historical Society
Brooklyn Lyceum
City Reliquary
Episcopal Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew
Floyd Bennet Field
Mary A. Whalen
St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church
The Montauk Club
first floor of One Hanson Place (Williamsburgh Bank)
Queens
Flushing Regional Branch Queens Library
Flux Factory
Fort Tilden
Hindu Temple Society of North America
Jacob Riis Park Bathhouse
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
King Manor Museum
Noguchi Museum
Old Quaker Meeting House
P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center
Socrates Sculpture Park
Staten Island
Alice Austen House Museum
Jacob Crocheron House
Noble Maritime Collection
Earlier: On board the Mary A. Whalen for Open House NY
(Octagon picture credits: Martin Langfield.)
October 8, 2006 09:12 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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