September 16, 2009

OpenHouseNewYork 2009 sneak preview of sites

Update: The OHNY 2009 list went live early.

One weekend next month, Open House New York will again offer free access to hundreds of spaces that are usually off limits to the public. The full list isn’t yet public, but OHNY has leaked a few locations and many participating organizations have already offered details through their individual websites or newsletters.

The full list — which promises more than 350 tours, talks, workshops, performances and screenings — will include the Apollo Theater, the Atlantic Avenue train tunnel, an 1899 carriage house, the Thaw Conservation Center at the Morgan Library, Richard Meier’s “Model Museum,” and tours of the High Line and Standard Hotel.

In addition the new OHNY blog has offered a few sneak peeks at some locations, including the Murray’s Cheese cave, Newtown Wastewater Treatment Plant, the new Brooklyn Bridge Park construction, First Church of Christ Scientist on Central Park West, and Brooklyn Bowl.

Here’s a preview of more Open House NY events for Oct. 10 and 11, 2009:

Saturday events
W. 53rd Street subway power station tour from the NY Transit Museum. First-come, first-serve tours at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Free reservation-required behind-the-scenes relic tour of the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum (212) 304-9422
Reservation-required World’s Fair Trolley Tours on the hour from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Prison Ships Martyrs Monument tours of the base from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. (No access to the top)
Staten Island’s Conference House opens with extended tours from 1 to 4 p.m.
Fort Totten opens from 1 to 3 p.m.
New York Marble Cemetery at 41 1/2 Second Avenue, the oldest public non-sectarian cemetery in NYC, opens from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The New York City Marble Cemetery 52-74 E. 2nd Street, the second non-sectarian burial ground in the City opens to the public
Free Woodlawn Cemetery walking tour at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. of 12 private mausoleums of some of the city’s most notable architects and artists
Neighborhood Preservation tours of the Ernest Flagg Rectory from noon to 4 p.m. at St. Mark’s
Governors Island will open “several additional buildings to the public” for the weekend
Historic Richmond Town on Staten Island will open its Boehm House and Christopher House
Casa Frela Gallery’s Harlem Open Artist Studio Tour
Cellar-to-attic tours of NYC’s oldest house, the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum at 11 a.m., 1 and 3 p.m.
High Bridge Water Tower Tours from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Free admission to Morris-Jumel Mansion Museum along with colonial-style costume dress-up and a scavenger hunt
St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx opens to the public
Self-guided scavenger hunt at Weeksville’s Historic Hunterfly Road Houses
Second-floor tours of the Lefferts Historic House at Prospect Park every half hour from 1 to 4:30 p.m.
Bartow-Pell Mansion Museumoffers free tours at quarter past the hour, 12:15 to 3:15 - plus a free theatrical performance: Reunion at the White House at 4:30 p.m.
Free admission at the Bronx Museum from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

September 16, 2009 11:21 AM in Architecture, Cheap Stuff, Downtown, History, Kids, Midtown, Museums, Out of Manhattan, Sightsology, Tours, Transportology, Upper East Side, Upper West Side

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