August 25, 2011
openhousenewyork 2011 preview list for Oct. 15-16
Update as of Oct. 4: The full list of 2011 OHNY sites is now live.
On Oct. 15 and 16, the ninth annual openhousenewyork will open the doors for free to hundreds of NYC locations, including tours of the undeveloped third section of the High Line, the new Hôtel Americano, Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, the United Nations, the Little Red Lighthouse, World Trade Center 7, the Brooklyn Navy Yard and the Grand Lodge of the Masons.
Some events will require reservations, which will open Oct. 5, a spokeswoman for OHNY told NewYorkology. Update: Reservations will open at 9 a.m., OHNY announced on Sept. 22.
Update: On Sept. 27, OHNY said some reservations will cost $5 this year.
OHNY 2011 will coincide with the first Archtober a month-long festival of architecture and design that will begin Oct. 1.
“This is the one weekend each year when thousands of New Yorkers and tourists alike are given entrée into places and spaces, many of which are not normally open to the public,” Renee Schacht, executive director of OHNY, said in a statement Wednesday announcing the initial list of participating locations.
“As in previous years, we will be opening the doors and providing tours through sites that span the past, present, and future of the city’s built-environment from the Bowne House, built in 1661 in Flushing, Queens — the best preserved example of an Anglo-Dutch colonial house in the U.S. — to the Mercedes-Benz Manhattan (Enrique Norten TEN Arquitectos), a new, glass and steel residential building whose staircase-like green rooftop terraces have redefined the New York skyline. In addition, we will glimpse into the future with members of the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter’s Emerging NY Architects Committee (ENYA) as they present ideas for the redevelopment of the West 135th Street Marine Transfer Station, a dormant piece of infrastructure on the Harlem waterfront,” Schacht said.
The full list of locations will be published Oct. 5 on OHNY’s new website.
All events will be free but a limited number of VIP Passports — with front-of-the-line access to all sites and programs that do not require reservations — will be available for a $150 donation to the non-profit OHNY.
The list of 2011 OHNY locations includes:
 Council of Fashion Designers of America’s Fashion Incubator studio spaces
Nitehawk Cinema
PS90 former Harlem school transformed into apartments/National Dance Institute
FDR townhouses adapted into the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute
Sperone Westwater art gallery
Eagle Street Rooftop Farm
Passive House residence that uses Passivhaus energy standards
Myrtle Hall, a LEED Gold certified building at the Pratt Institute
Alice Austen House
Duane Street Live/Work Loft
East Harlem School
Eldridge Street Synagogue
Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center
Grace Church
Visitor Center at Newtown Creek & Digester Egg Experience
New York Marble Cemetery
Salmagundi Club
The Standard Hotel
Temple Emanu-El
Other programs and tours will include:
- Making Midtown: Design, Manufacturing, and the Built Environment of the Garment District tour
- An architectural tour of the George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal
- New works tours from the architects from Diller Scofidio + Renfro, FXFOWLE - Architects, Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, and Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects
- A talk with SHoP Architects at Pier 15 about their designs of the East River Waterfront;
- A tour of the Sunnyside Historic District in Queens
- A walk through Villanova Heights
- Old Croton Aqueduct Walking Tour
Family-friendly events will include:
- Modern Architecture Scavenger Hunt organized by DOCOMOMO US
- Gowanus Canal canoe tour
- Bicycle excursions throughout various neighborhoods
- The Holly Whyte Way Arcade Parade tour
- Red Hook artistic exploration with the Kentler Gallery
- Art and architecture programs at the Museum at Eldridge Street
- Water tower programs at the Salvadori Center
- Scavenger hunt at Staten Island’s oldest building, the Billou Stillwell Perine House
- Skyscraper design at the Skyscraper Museum
- Hands-on architecture and design programs at the Center for Architecture
More than 200,000 people are expected to participate in the upcoming OHNY
Related: OpenHouse New York 2010 winning photographs form the Focus on Architecture competition.
Update as of Sept. 1: More locations have posted OHNY plans:
The St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site will set up the Battle of Pell’s Point Encampment with costumed re-enactors, talks on the American Revolution, musket firing and militia drill, period music and dancing, dramatizations, crafts and cooking on Oct. 15 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine will offer a Within the Walls: Spotlight on Hidden Spaces tours on Oct. 15.
Update as of Sept. 2: The Morris-Jumel Mansion will open for free all weekend and offer docent led tours and family activities, according to the website for the historic home.
Castle Clinton on Oct. 15 will offer free talks by costumed rangers on the military significance of the national monument, a National Park Service spokeswoman confirmed to NewYorkology via email. The talks: “Meet General Washington” at 10 a.m.; a tour on the history of Castle Clinton at noon; and “New York in the Revolution” program at 2 p.m.
Update as of Sept. 6: The former Officers’ Club at Fort Totten will open for tours on Oct. 15 and 16, according to the Bayside Historical Society website.
Update as of Sept. 13: The Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum will offer free guided tours Oct. 14 through 16 as part of OHNY and the Historic House Trust Festival, according to the mansion’s website.
Update as of Sept. 19: Green-Wood Cemetery will do registration-required tours of its most famous mausoleums on Oct. 15 and 16. Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden will open for free from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Oct. 16.
Update as of Sept. 23: 5 Beekman Street will be open as a reservation-required site, according to the OHNY blog. Update as of Oct. 3: OHNY today tweeted: “5 Beekman Street sadly will not be open for the Weekend this year.”
Update as of Sept. 27: Pier Glass will open its doors to the public from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Oct. 15 and from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Oct. 16, according to a sign posted at the shop.
Update as of Sept. 28: OHNY today announced more sites:
Conference House on Staten Island
Queens Theater in the Park
Ford Foundation
Farley Post Office/Moynihan Station
Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park
Nolitan hotel
Gowanus Canal Sponge Park
Central Synagogue tour with Hugh Hardy
Tour of Lincoln Center public spaces with the architects
Picture credits: High Line Phase 3 and top of the Little Red Lighthouse. Amy Langfield/NewYorkology.
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August 25, 2011 8:31 AM in Architecture, Cheap Stuff, History, Kids, Midtown, Museums, Out of Manhattan, Tours
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