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Reservations Required SitesAlthough the majority of sites that participate in OHNY Weekend are Open Access, and may be visited for free during the hours indicated on their web listing at ohny.org, some sites require visitors to make reservations in advance. The OHNY Weekend sites listed in this PDF all require reservations.

Reservations open at 11am on Tuesday, September 25 at ohny.org. A Note About ReservationsDue to the overwhelming demand, reservations are highly competitive and many visitors are frustrated by how quickly sites and tours sell out, often within seconds after opening. If you do not get reservations for a site, check that site’s web listing at ohny.org (after September 18) for recommendations of other sites that are nearby or similar. For more tips about how to plan for Reservation Day, visit ohny.org/access and look for “OHNY Weekend Reservation Day.” How to Use This GuideSites are listed in alphabetical order. Exact meeting locations will be provided once you make a reservation, but this guide includes neighborhood and borough information to help you plan. Tour times, dates, duration, and a brief description are also included. For longer descriptions, photos, and additional details, visit ohny.org/weekend after September 18.

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Open House New York Weekend, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, October 12-14, 2018Reservations Required Sites and Tours | Reservations begin Tuesday, September 25, at 11 am at www.ohny.org.Please Note: Tours and times subject to change. Check www.ohny.org beginning September 18 for more information and updates.

Saturday: 1, 2:30pm Deborah Berke Architects transformed this historic former public school building in the East Village into a new home for four arts groups and a community service organization.

East Village, Manhattan

45 minutes122 Community Arts Center

Sunday: 10, 11:30 am, 1, 2:30, 4 pm Construction tours of a new condominium development designed by GLUCK+ on the Lower East Side, with an innovative facade that captures the rhythm and energy of the neighborhood.

Lower East Side, Manhattan

1 hour150 Rivington

Saturday: 12, 2, 4pm Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Richard Rogers, 3 WTC is the most recently completed building on the WTC site, and the 5th tallest building in NYC.

Financial District, Manhattan

1 hour3 World Trade Center

Sunday: 1, 2pm A new civic space and a functional water filtration system at the base of a striking new residential development in East Midtown.

East Midtown, Manhattan

30 minutesAmerican Copper Building Plaza

Friday: 1, 2, 3, 4pm A new factory and store that manufactures herbal elixirs, tonics, and other products from an extensive herbal inventory. Presented as part of “Factory Friday.”

Greenpoint, Brooklyn 45 minutesAnima Mundi Apothecary

Saturday: 10, 11:30am, 1, 2:30pm See a dozen artworks from the impressive art collection of Lehman College, along with guided tours of the beautiful tree-lined campus, with buildings by Marcel Breuer, Rafael Viñoly, and others.

Jerome Park, Bronx 1 hourArt and Architecture at Lehman College, CUNY

Sunday: 10, 11:30am A tour with Anthony Robins, author of New York Art Deco, of the remarkable Art Deco buildings of the Civic Center and Tribeca.

Civic Center, Manhattan

1 hourArt Deco in the Civic Center and Tribeca

Saturday: 1, 3pm Designed by Kliment Halsband Architects, this 20-story apartment building relates to both the Cathedral Close of St. John the Divine and Morningside Park.

Morningside Heights, Manhattan

1 hourAvalon Morningside Park Apartments at St. John the Divine

Sunday: 12, 1:30pm A guided walk with the Newtown Creek Alliance exploring the birthplace of Mobil Oil and ongoing efforts to help restore and revitalize areas near Newtown Creek, a Federal Superfund site.

Greenpoint, Brooklyn 90 minutesBirthplace of Mobil Oil

Friday: 1, 3, 5pm Tour a distillery and learn about the process of making spirits from scratch. Presented as part of “Factory Friday.”

South Slope, Brooklyn

1 hourBreuckelen Distilling



Saturday: 11:00 AM The Broadway Malls Association leads a tour of Hamilton Heights, and the hidden gems, walk-through malls, and vibrant street life along the way.

Hamilton Heights, Manhattan

3-3.5 hoursThe Broadway Malls

Saturday: 12, 1pm WXY helped NYCEDC with the redesign of 120,000sf of public outdoor space improvements throughout the BAT campus, with new seating areas, improved wayfinding, and more.

Sunset Park, Brooklyn

45 minutesBrooklyn Army Terminal Reactivation Plan

Saturday: 10, 11:30am, 1pm Tour one the largest rooftop soil farms in the U.S., where over 50,000 lbs of organically cultivated produce is grown each year.

Navy Yard, Brooklyn 45 minutesBrooklyn Grange Rooftop Farm: Brooklyn Navy Yard

Saturday: 2, 3, 4pm Tour Building 77, the largest structure on the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s 300-acre campups, with architects from Beyer Blinder Belle and Marvel Architects.

Navy Yard, Brooklyn 1 hourBrooklyn Navy Yard Building 77

Saturday: 10, 11am Designed by Marble Fairbanks Architects, this new library will be a 15,000-sf hub for environmental awareness, activism, and education.

Greenpoint, Brooklyn 1 hourBPL Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education Center

Saturday: 11am, 12, 1, and 2pm An adventurous, behind-the-scenes climb of more than 124 feet up a spiral staircase to the top of the world’s largest cathedral.

Morningside Heights, Brooklyn

1 hourCathedral Church of St. John the Divine Vertical Tour

Saturday: 10, 11am, 12, 1, 3, 4, 5pm Learn about the history of the Center–the first nonprofit of its kind in the nation–and see its letterpress printing and book binding equipment in action.

Flatiron District, Manhattan

45 minutesThe Center for Book Arts

Saturday: 12, 1:30pm A tour with SHoP Architects of their new residential building, with interiors by the renowned Clodagh, that was designed to enhance wellness.

Yorkville, Manhattan 45 minutesCitizen360

Saturday: 2, 2:45, 3:30, 4:15pm A Renaissance-inspired townhouse built in 1925 that is now one of the jewels of France’s historic properties in the U.S. and around the world.

Upper East Side, Manhattan

30 minutesConsulate General of France

Saturday: 11am, 12pm A tour with James Corner Field Operations of the new 12.5-acre campus that is now home to Cornell Tech, with stunning views of both the Manhattan and Queens skylines.

Roosevelt Island, Manhattan

45 minutesCornell Tech Campus



Saturday: 1, 2, 3, 4pm An adaptive re-use of Building 128 in the Brooklyn Navy Yard that emphasizes the building’s cathedral-like proportions and massive scale.

Navy Yard, Brooklyn 45 minutesCrye Precision LLC

Saturday: 11am, 12, 1, 3, 4pm This Gilded Age, High Renaissance palazzo was the former Payne Whitney mansion, and one of Stanford White’s final projects, before becoming the home for the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.


30-45 minutesCultural Services of the French Embassy / Albertine Books

Friday: 10am, 11am, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm A manufacturer of handmade fabric flowers for the apparel, bridal, accessory, millinery, and home furnishing industries. Presented as part of “Factory Friday.”

Midtown, Manhattan 30 minutesCustom Fabric Flowers by M&S Schmalberg

Saturday & Sunday: 12, 12:30, 1, 1:30, 2, 2:30, 3, 3:30pm

A pop-up experience that temporarily transforms a gutted Manhattan loft apartment into gallery of sculpted installations of demolition material.

Garment District, Manhattan

30 minutesDemo-Demo

Saturday: 12, 1pm Domino Park reconnects Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood to this quarter-of-a-mile-long portion of the East River waterfront for the first time in 160 years.

Williamsburg, Brooklyn

45 minutesDomino Park

Saturday: 10am, 11:30am The 3-story, 57,500-square-foot exhibit building houses 9 dynamic galleries, over 800,000 gallons of water and over 100 different species within a variety of exhibits.

Coney Island, Brooklyn

90 minutesD. Zucker and B. Hrbek Zucker Ocean Wonders: Sharks! at NY Aquarium

Sunday: 2pm A walking tour of the Douglaston Historic District.Douglaston, Queens 3 hoursDouglaston Village, Historic Douglas Manor, and the Douglaston Club

Saturday: 12pm This award-winning mixed-use development reimagines a vacant, 19th-century warehouse on the DUMBO waterfront as a contemporary creative workplace and community hub.

DUMBO, Brooklyn 1 hourEmpire Stores

Saturday & Sunday: 1, 2:30pm Climb into the clock tower, where the original, 19th-century clockworks (recently restored) are still in use.

Midtown, Manhattan 45 minutesFifth Avenue Presbyterian Church Clocktower Tour

Saturday & Sunday: 2:30, 3:30pm A demonstration of the power and finesse of the church’s Austin organ, installed in 1961, which has five keyboards, 32 foot-pedal stops, and 7,034 pipes.

Midtown, Manhattan 45 minutesFifth Avenue Presbyterian Church Organ Tour



Saturday: 10am, 1pm Visit normally inaccessible areas of Freshkills Park and learn about its ongoing transformation from landfill to park.

Staten Island 2 hoursFreshkills Park

Saturday: 2, 3, 4, 5pmSunday: 12, 1, 2, 3pm

Architectural tours of the library’s French Revival building, designed by John Russell Pope and home to one of the world’s greatest art research collections.


45 minutesThe Frick Art Reference Library

Saturday: 11am, 12:30pm The Salt Lot is home to the Gowanus Canal Conservancy’s (GCC’s) compost facility, native plant nursery, and the base of operations for its education and volunteer programming.

Gowanus, Brooklyn 1 hourGowanus Canal Conservancy Salt Lot

Saturday & Sunday: 2, 3pm An hour-long tour that will highlight the history, architecture and operations of one of the world’s biggest train terminals that the Municipal Art Society helped to save.

Midtown, Manhattan 1 hourGrand Central Terminal and the Municipal Art Society

Saturday: 9, 10:30 am, 12 pm Beyer Blinder Belle, architects of Grand Central Terminal’s award-winning restoration, lead a tour exploring this NYC icon’s history and issues surrounding terminal’s preservation and revitalization.

Midtown, Manhattan 1 hourGrand Central Terminal Restoration Tour

Saturday: 11am, 1pm Join the Newtown Creek Alliance for a guided walking tour of two unique green roof sites.

Greenpoint, Brooklyn 75 minutesGreen Infrastructure Walking Tour in Greenpoint

Saturday & Sunday: 10:30am A walking tour to kick-off a 2-year celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance.

Harlem, Manhattan 1 hour“Harlem Renaissance 100” Walking Tour

Saturday: Times to be announced A construction tour of this new ground-up gallery building in Chelsea.Chelsea, Manhattan 1 hourHauser & Wirth Gallery West 22nd Street

Sunday: 10, 11am, 12, 1pm A guided tour of the three c. 1830 Federal-style row houses that have been occupied by Henry Street Settlement since 1895.


45 minutesHenry Street Settlement

Sunday: 10am Bike New York will take you on an urban tour, beginning in the Bronx, the birthplace of Hip Hop, and ending in Greenwich Village.

Morris Heights, Bronx 3.5 hoursHip Hop Architecture: Bike New York Ride



Saturday: 1, 2:45, 4pm A full city block, this Richard Morris Hunt gem was designed in the late 19th century as a home for indigent single women, and today houses the largest youth hostel in the Western World.

Upper West Side, Manhattan

1 hourHostelling International NYC

Saturday: 12, 1, 2, 3pm Tours of the Hub, the tallest residential building in Brooklyn.Downtown Brooklyn 50 minutesHub

Saturday: 12pm Hunter’s Point South Waterfront Park Phase II, completed in June 2018, transforms 5.5 acres of an abandoned industrial landscape into a new waterfront park.

Hunter’s Point, Queens 90 minutesHunter’s Point South Waterfront Park

Saturday: 11am, 2pm Industry City is a 16-building, six million square foot campus that sits along the Brooklyn waterfront.

Sunset Park, Brooklyn 1 hourIndustry City

Saturday: 11am, 1pm Tours with the landscape architects of this 33,000 sf courtyard designed to capture the scale of, and views within, the post-industrial space of Industry City.

Sunset Park, Brooklyn 1 hourIndustry City Courtyard 3/4

Friday: 11:30am, 12, 12:30, 4:30pm New York City’s only brewery and distillery under one roof. Presented as part of “Factory Friday.”

Williamsburg, Brooklyn 30 minutesInterboro Spirits and Ales

Saturday & Sunday: 10:30am A rare opportunity to tour Intrepid’s collections storage space and see artifacts not normally shown to the public, while learning about the stories behind the objects from the collections experts.

Midtown, Manhattan 1 hourIntrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum

Saturday: 11am, 3pmSunday: 10 am

A tour of what might be the most fascinating and complex block in New York City in terms of evolution—from food market in the 1830s to jail to garden and from courthouse to library.

West Village, Manhattan

90 minutesJefferson Market and Environs Tour

Friday: 9:30, 11am, 3:00pm A manufacturer of high tech DC power supplies that provide critical power to key scientific and industrial applications around New York City and the world. Presented as part of “Factory Friday.”

Flushing, Queens 1 hourKepco, Inc.

Saturday & Sunday: 1, 1:20, 1:40, 2, 2:20, 2:40, 3, 3:20, 3:40, 4pm

Kings County Distillery is New York City’s oldest operating whiskey distillery, the first since prohibition.

Navy Yard, Brooklyn 1 hourKings County Distillery



Sunday: 12, 1, 2, 3, 4pm Celebrate the history of activism in the Queens LGBTQ community from the 1990s to the present with “The Lavender Line: Coming Out in Queens.”

Long Island City, Queens

45 minutesLaGuardia Community College

Saturday: 1:30, 3pm The LeFrak Center at Lakeside is a year-round public skating and recreational facility that offers winter ice skating, summer roller skating, boating, biking and a warm weather water play area.

Prospect Park, Brooklyn

45 minutesLefrak Center at Lakeside, Prospect Park

Saturday: 10am, 12pm Sunday: 12, 2pm

A tour of the 16-acre campus that will tell the insider stories of this iconic destination’s past and present, and highlight hidden gems little known to even the most frequent visitors.


75 minutesLincoln Center Guided Tours

Saturday: 2pm This tour will explore Lower Manhattan and visit some of the places that were important to the people who lived in New York as it was during the Revolutionary Period.


90 minutesLower Manhattan Then

Sunday: 10am, 2pm Maple Grove Cemetery, opened in 1875, is a Victorian Era Rural Country Cemetery with rolling hills, ancient trees, and lush landscaped gardens.

Kew Gardens, Queens 2 hoursMaple Grove Cemetery

Saturday: Tours start every 15 minutes from 10am to 2:30pm

Headquarters for the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of New York, the 1911 building has 13 Lodge rooms and a grand meeting room that can hold up to 1,000 people.


40 minutesMasonic Hall

Sunday: 10, 11am, 12pm Tour Marcel Breuer’s masterpiece with The Metropolitan Museum of Art Design Department and Beyer Blinder Belle to learn about the immersive task of restoring an icon.


1 hourThe Met Breuer

Sunday: 10:30; 11:45 am; 1; 2:15 pm See the backstage workings of this great theater, including visits to the scenic, costume, and carpentry shops; to the storage area; to the rehearsal rooms; and the famous auditorium and lobby.


70 minutesThe Metropolitan Opera

Saturday: 10am, 12, 2, 4, 6pm With its intricately interwoven horizontal and vertical spaces, and its rich displays of objects from around-the-world, this is a strongly expressive design by master architect Paul Rudolph.

Turtle Bay, Manhattan 1 hourMODULIGHTOR Building

Saturday & Sunday: 10am, 1pm Known for its dramatic sloping topography and designated a Scenic Landmark by NYC, Morningside Park is the final Olmsted and Vaux design to be completed before Vaux’s death in 1895.

Morningside Heights, Manhattan

90 minutesMorningside Park



Saturday: 9, 11am, 2, 4pm Tour the innovative sustainability features of this 2014 bus depot that services over 50,000 riders each weekday, including a green roof, heat recovery units, and rainwater collection system.

Harlem, Manhattan 90 minutesMother Clara Hale Bus Depot

Saturday & Sunday: 2pm The Moynihan Train Hall Project transforms the iconic, century-old, McKim, Mead and White-designed post office building into a state-of-the-art gateway and civic destination at Penn Station.

Midtown, Manhattan 1 hourMoynihan Phase 1: New West End Concourse at Penn Station

Sunday: 11am A tour of nine new subway artwork installations on the F line in Brooklyn.

Midwood, Brooklyn 90 minutesMTA Arts & Design: New Art on the F Line in Brooklyn

Saturday: 4pm A guided tour of 4 permanent artworks in Downtown Brooklyn and Park Slope South stations.

Park Slope, Brooklyn 90 minutesMTA Arts & Design: Public Art in Brooklyn Transit Stations

Saturday: 11am; 12, 4, 5 pm Get an insider’s view of highlights from the Museum’s current exhibitions on this exclusive OHNY Weekend docent-led tour.

East Harlem, Manhattan

45 minutesMuseum of the City of New York

Saturday: 1, 1:30, 2, 2:30, 3, 3:30, 4pm Built in the 1840s as the Tilden Mansion, the home of the National Arts Club is one of New York’s most beautiful interiors. Timed entry; no guided tours.

Gramercy Park, Manhattan

30 minutesThe National Arts Club

Saturday: 11am, 12pm Learn about the history of The New School through the lens of twelve important site-specific works of art that grace its Greenwich Village campus.

Greenwich Village, Manhattan

45 minutesThe New School Art Collection

Sunday: 10:00 am & 11:00 AM A preview of the New School’s new Making Center.Greenwich Village, Manhattan

45 minutesThe New School’s Making Center

Sunday: 12, 1, 2, 3pm A tour of the lobby, auditorium, main reading room of this neo-Romanesque building by York and Sawyer, constructed in 1925-1926.

East Harlem, Manhattan

45 minutesThe New York Academy of Medicine

Saturday: 1, 2, 3 pm This 28,000 sf branch library fulfills a much-needed role as a public space and a touchstone for the local community and visiting tourists.

Midtown, Manhattan 45 minutesNew York Public Library 53rd Street Library



Saturday: 10:30, 11:30am Originally designed by McKim, Mead & White, this 1914 building was recently renovated to create a contemporary identity that foregrounds a new open stair that unites all floors of the branch.

Woodstock, Bronx 45 minutesNew York Public Library Woodstock Library

Saturday: 10am, 12:30, 2:30, 3:30pmSunday: 10am, 12:30, 3:30pm

The New York Society Library, founded in 1754, is open to all for reading, reference, and many events.


40-45 minutesThe New York Society Library

Sunday: 9, 10:30 am Learn about the museum’s space, a former subway station, and understand its design secrets, and see the back-of-house areas that are now used as offices and storage.

Downtown Brooklyn 1 hourNew York Transit Museum

Saturday: 12, 12:30, 1, 1:30, 2, 2:30, 3, 3:30, 4pm

This new space highlights new kinds of iterative, interdisciplinary teamwork using new tools of rapid prototyping and digitally driven production.

Downtown Brooklyn 30 minutesNew York University Tandon School of Engineering Makerspace

Saturday & Sunday: 10, 10:30, 11, 11:30am, 12, 12:30, 1, 1:30, 2, 2:30pm

Step back in time and view this eminent American painter’s studio,complete with his original easel, desk, furnace, and kitchenette, among other authentic artifacts. Timed entry only, no tours.


30 minutesNew York University: Edward Hopper Studio

Saturday & Sunday: 10:30am Join local celebrity tour guide Jane Marx as she mixes historical facts with her own witty commentary in this tour of Greenwich Village, organized by New York University.


2 hoursNew York University’s Greenwich Village Tour

Saturday: 11am, 1, 3pm A tour to the top of the Digester Eggs, the largest of NYC’s 14 wastewater treatment plants.

Greenpoint, Brooklyn 90 minutesNewtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant

Sunday: 1pm Built as part of New York City’s Design Excellence program, the Ocean Breeze Indoor Athletic Facility sits within a new 110-acre park on Staten Island’s Eastern Shore.

South Beach, Staten Island

1 hourOcean Breeze Athletic Complex

Saturday: 6:30pm Join the award-winning designers of Focus Lighting for an evening on the beach where they will discuss their design for the New York Aquarium’s breathtaking Ocean Wonders: Sharks! façade.

Coney Island, Brooklyn 45 minutesOcean Wonders: Sharks! Lighting Tour

Saturday: 1, 2, 3, 4pm Dedicated to providing the three- to six-year-old students with an optimal learning environment, the design integrates Passive House standards with adaptive reuse of a historic structure.

Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn

45 minutesPacker Early Learning Center



Sunday: 1, 3pm See Taylor 2 perform Paul Taylor’s “Party Mix” and “Runes.” The Taylor Studios have been a cultural landmark on Manhattan’s Lower East Side since 2011.


45 minutesPaul Taylor American Modern Dance–Performances

Saturday: 12, 1:30, 3pm The new Pier 17 at the Seaport District re-imagines the shopping center to create a mix of boutique and large restaurant and retail spaces.

Seaport, Manhattan 1 hourPier 17

Saturday & Sunday: 5:30pm A tour with the lighting designers of the new Pier 17.Seaport, Manhattan 1 hourPier 17 Lighting Tour

Saturday: 10, 11:30am, 1pm Pierhouse houses the 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge and townhome-style condominiums offering unobstructed New York Harbor and Manhattan views.


80 minutesPierhouse Brooklyn Bridge Park

Saturday & Sunday: 12:30, 1, 1:30, 2, 2:30, 3pm

Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961, the church features noteworthy examples of American art and architecture in keeping with its significant history.


45 minutesPlymouth Church

Friday: 2, 3, 4pm Located in the old Pfizer Building, the Pratt Institute Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator (BF+DA) is a hub for ethical fashion and design that connects sustainability and technology to innovative design.

Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn

1 hourPratt Institute Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator

Sunday: 10am A tour of Prospect Park, the masterwork of famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted and his partner, Calvert Vaux.

Prospect Park, Brooklyn

1 hourProspect Park

Saturday: 1, 2:15pm A behind-the- scenes peek at the Visitor’s Center sustainable design features, with lessons learned both architecturally and environmentally.

Flushing, Queens 1 hourQueens Botanical Garden Visitor and Administration Center

Saturday: 10, 11am A tour of the redesign for a fragmented 1.3 mile-long urban site that created a coherent public realm, supporting bicycles and pedestrians.


1 hourQueens Plaza Bicycle and Pedestrian Improvements Project

Saturday & Sunday: 2pm Join Mary-Beth Shine of SHINE NYC ART as she guides, informs and reveals the unique characteristics and hidden treasures, both private and public, of this historic and beloved neighborhood.

Red Hook, Brooklyn 2 hoursRed Hook Walking Tour



Saturday & Sunday: 11am, 1pm A 50-acre natural oasis on the Brooklyn-Queens border that was built in 1859 to supply the once independent City of Brooklyn with high quality water.

Glendale, Queens 90 minutesRidgewood Reservoir

Saturday & Sunday: 2, 2:30, 3, 3:30, 4pm

Conceived over 100 years ago by John D. Rockefeller Jr. as a “city within a city,” Rockefeller Center has long been a hub of remarkable art, style, and entertainment.

Midtown, Manhattan 75 minutesRockefeller Center Walking Tour

Friday: 10am, 12, 2, 4pm Home for an open production kitchen and a classroom for instruction and guided chocolate tastings. Presented as part of “Factory Friday.”


30 minutesRoni-Sue’s Chocolates

Saturday: 10, 11am, 12, 1, 2, 3pm The former double townhouse of Franklin, Eleanor and Sara Delano Roosevelt, now owned by Hunter College offers visitors a chance to get closer to a family as unique as the city they inhabited.


1 hourRoosevelt House

Saturday: 11:30am, 1:30, 3:30pm Discover the treasures hidden inside Schermerhorn Row, and one of the oldest warehouses still standing in New York City.

Seaport, Manhattan 1 hourSchermerhorn Row

Saturday: 2, 3, 4pm This project repurposes a long-underutilized industrial site to become a studio complex for a sculptor and his team.


45 minutesSculpture Studio

Saturday: 11amSunday: 1pm

More than four decades of restoration and development converted a 19th-century charitable rest home for sailors to a regional arts center, botanical gardens, and public park.

Randall Manor, Staten Island

90 minutesSnug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden

Saturday: 1, 3pm A half-acre triangular open space reimagined to accommodate a variety of activities for workers and residents alike.

Hudson Square, Manhattan

1 hourSpring Street Park

Saturday: 10am, 12, 2, 4pm A campus of ten indoor, modular, hydroponic farms located within the old Pfizer Building parking lot.

Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn

75 minutesSquare Roots

Saturday: 12, 1, 2, 3pm Experience SOM’s studio and walk through the spaces in which the design process for projects like One World Trade Center and The New School University Center came to life.


45 minutesSkidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP



Friday: 1, 5pm A 10,000 sf space for the lighting maker retains many of the building’s industrial details, including deep steel I-beams and weathered wooden floors. Presented as part of “Factory Friday.”


45 minutesSTICKBULB SHOWROOM AT RUX STUDIOS (Factory Friday)

Friday: 10, 11am, 12, 2, 3, 4pm The production facilities for a luxury apparel development studio serving primarily American ready to wear designers. Presented as part of “Factory Friday.”

Midtown, Manhattan 45 minutesStitchLuxe/Last Date

Friday: 10am, 1pm A 30,000-sf facility for complex steel fabrication. Presented as part of “Factory Friday.”

East New York, Brooklyn

1 hourSure Iron Works

Sunday: 10, 11am, 12, 1pm This comprehensive renovation transformed the signature 1970 building into a learning commons that is the hub for the entire campus.

Fieldston, Bronx 45 minutesTate Library at Ethical Culture Fieldston School

Friday: 10am, 1pm A global source for quality identification products to the utility and the original equipment market. Presented as part of “Factory Friday.”

Clifton, Staten Island 45 minutesTech Products, Inc.

Saturday: 8:30am A tour celebrating The Lower Manhattan Then and NOW Map, highlighting the concerns, events and places that those who lived, fought, and worked here thought were important at the time.


90 minutesThe Commons: The Heart of New York City

Saturday: 11am, 12pm Tour the design for the park and public spaces along the Williamsburg waterfront.


45 minutesThe Edge Park Williamsburg

Sunday: 2pm A tour focusing on the exhibition design of the Cooper Hewitt show “The Senses: Design Beyond Vision.”


45 minutesThe Senses: Design Beyond Vision

Saturday: 5:30, 6:30pm A reconstruction of the townhouse where Theodore Roosevelt lived from the time he was born until he was fourteen.


30-45 minutesTheodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site

Saturday: 11am, 2pmSunday: 12:30pm

An insider’s tour and peek behind the scenes of this national historic landmark as it celebrates its 100th anniversary on Park Avenue.

Midtown, Manhattan 90 minutesSt. Bartholomew’s Church



Saturday: Every 30 minutes from 10am-4:30pm

Designed by Cass Gilbert, the architect of the Woolworth Building, the courthouse is the architectural anchor of Manhattan’s Civic Center.


30 minutesThurgood Marshall United States Courthouse

Saturday: 1, 3pm A tour of Times Square with a focus on design, architecture, history, and public space innovation.

Times Square, Manhattan

1 hourTimes Square

Saturday & Sunday: Every 20 minutes from 10am-12:40pm

This renowned theater, designed by McKim, Mead & White, was originally built as a hall for civic eduction, following the passage of the 19th amendment.

Midtown, Manhattan 30 minutesThe Town Hall

Friday: 3, 4pm A design + build practice that combines a design studio, fabrication shop, and wood mill. Presented as part of “Factory Friday.”

Greenpoint, Brooklyn 30 minutesTri-Lox

Friday: 1, 2:30, 4pm An open studio and shop for all types of terrariums, do-it-yourself kits, plants and pots, and more. Presented as part of “Factory Friday.”

Kensington, Brooklyn 30 minutesTwig Terrariums

Saturday & Sunday: 2, 4pm Founded in 1836, and located on this site since 1910, Union Theological is housed in perpendicular Gothic buildings that, with an interior courtyard, present an atmosphere for work and reflection.

Morningside Heights, Brooklyn

75 minutesUnion Theological Seminary

Saturday: 1, 3pm Tour the iconic United Nations to admire the building’s architecture and learn about the artwork on view. Tours will not include the General Assembly or Council Chambers.

Turtle Bay, Manhattan 1 hourUnited Nations

Friday: 11am, 12, 1, 2, 3pm A preeminent prototyping facility that specializes in appearance models, primary and secondary packaging prototypes, and more. Presented as part of “Factory Friday.”

Woodside, Queens 45 minutesUtley’s Inc.

Saturday & Sunday: 10, 11am, 12, 1, 2, 3pm

Built on landfill from the rubble of the bombing of Bristol, England, Waterside is a residential and business complex that was lauded for its design and urbanism when it was built in the 1970s.

Kips Bay, Manhattan 1 hourWaterside

Friday: 10, 11am, 12, 1, 2pm Explore this new commercial kitchen and bakery, where you can see: making and rolling of dough, baking, and packaging. Presented as part of “Factory Friday.”


30-45 minutesThis Chick Bakes



Saturday: 10, 10:30, 11, 11:30am, 12, 12:30pm

See inside west elm’s global headquarters located in Empire Stores, the 19th-century coffee warehouses on the East River waterfront with stunning views of Brooklyn Bridge Park and Lower Manhattan

DUMBO, Brooklyn 30 minuteswest elm Headquarters at Empire Stores

Saturday & Sunday: 11am, 1pm Tours on Saturday and Sunday will include Wonderful Whimsical Women of Woodlawn; Mausoleums: Architecture, Design & Sculpture; Beer Barons of Woodlawn; and more.

Woodlawn, Bronx 2 hourWoodlawn Cemetery

Saturday: 10amSunday: 10am, 12pm

Explore the lobby of the legendary “Cathedral of Commerce” with an official Woolworth Tours guide to learn why this structure was one of the most important skyscrapers ever built.

CIvic Center, Manhattan

1 hourWoolworth Building

Sunday: 10am, 1:30pm EOA/Elmslie Osler Architect transformed the community space for one of the first Jewish community centers in NYC into a warm and welcoming space for senior meals, dances, and gatherings.

Inwood, Manhattan 45-60 minutesYM & YWHA of Washington Heights & Inwood

Saturday: 12:30, 1:30, 3:30pm Tour the new Education and Cultural Arts building for this multi-disciplinary museum dedicated to preserving the history of the 19th-century African American community of Weeksville.

Crown Heights, Brooklyn

45 minutesWeeksville Heritage Center

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