Open House New York -- historical and architectural sites throw doors open

don't know about always, but def seen it before.

One Hanson Place

willyb bank? is that what they're calling it?

willyb bank? is that what they're calling it?

That's the address - I don't think a name has been settled on

I know what-hard-to-get-in one I'M targeting (not tellin).

My company sorta built that -- or, rather, we purchased the rights to the architect that built it. Two big boxes of all our historical material related to the Williamsburgh Savings Bank and many other banks were annihilated on 9/11, sadly.

I'll hafta go early, b4 baseball starts...

oh and btw this thread confused me and i thought it was last weekend - so i went by one hanson place to try and find a program - the security guard was all wtf u talkin abt.

That used to be my former housemate's bank. I used to love going there with her because I'd just trip out on the architecture.

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the Chrysler lobby is always open to the public.

This year I have circled:

The Gatehouse
Grant's Memorial
Chelsea Market
Floyd Bennet Field
The Montauk Club
Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House

Sadly I will definitely not get to all of these.

laurel - do you mean the actual bank on the 1st floor? would make kinda a weird condo. i guess they could chop it up, what with the ceiling being 3 stories high, would be a shame tho. i would make it the lobby or something like that - such a sweet room.

I bet I haven't been in Grant's Tomb since I was ten (right after they interred him).

I think they've scrapped the Gatehouse, Laurel?

Floyd Bennett Field sounds like one of the more value-added picks. are the Grant's Tomb and Wyckoff House tours unique to this weekend?

http://static.flickr.com/28/91455323_e92a237e7b.jpg

Coming Oct 6 & 7

but not telling us any details until Sept 28

but they're hyping Red Hook and Roosevelt Island

Thanks, Morbs! I forgot last year.

I saw the Masonic Lodge a couple of years ago...was kinda disappointed...they did a good job at hiding the rooms where the initiates get paddled and such...

I was not disappointed in the Masonic Lodge! I imagined the rites w/ no problem...

up gabbneb's alley:

5th annual openhousenewyork Weekend

friday, October 5, 2007
7-9 pm
The Torch Club
18 waverly place

join the party and meet the architects, designers,
planners, and OHNY friends who help make
OHNY Weekend America's largest
architecture and design event!

$25 per person in advance / $35 at the door

I don't live on Waverly Pl!

washington mews?

http://www.newyorkology.com/archives/2008/09/ohny_additions.php

no Little Red Lighthouse?

"the NYC Urban Park Rangers told NewYorkology that the Little Red Lighthouse is not participating, despite its new addition listing."

I can't even find the Governors Island listing on the OHNY site.

OK, I got it.

the lighthouse is open

http://www.newyorkology.com/archives/2008/10/ohny_updates_re.php

bump

Gov Island is in a weird limbo, eh? Good Jamaican rice n' beans vendor near the dock tho.

Louis Armstrong House Museum was cool. He and Lucille sure were smallish; we could hardly get down the stairs and remain vertical.

i got onto a Masonic Lodge tour but bailed before we went inside because i had somewhere more interesting to be

This year's sked goes on website Thursday night (weekend is Oct 10-11).

http://www.ohny.org/weekend/listings.cfm

Print copy can be found in today's Metro daily.

anyone investigated the listings? what good stuff is filled up already?

Eh there's not that much I want to do this year, tho I only looked at Bklyn. I'm never going to remember early enough to get into the Gov Island tours or the closed-bits-of-Ellis Island tours or the MTA-substation tours.

Mostly I need a search fxn for the listings that filters out every single design studio or commercial enterprise. Fuck a "Brooklyn artists loft".

And churches. I don't really want to see any churches, either.

The tours of the MTA substation are only at 1pm and only 25 people per tour...but there's no RSVP info...???

All the track work this weekend is gonna make this harder. I may clomp around Red Hook tomorrow.

The 2010 OHNY Weekend event guide will be available tomorrow as an insert in Time Out New York's September 29 issue!

Full site and program listings will be available tonight on ohny.org at 9 pm, as well as in an easy-to-print PDF format. However, sites and programs that require advance reservations will start at 9 am on Wednesday, September 29.

anyone going to anything?

I want to do the Red Hook Sludge Boat, but there are no more spots. I will do the Digester Eggs at Newtown Creek and maybe the Chrysler Building.

Forgot about this until last min, as usual! But I can guarantee I won't be able to get F out of the house for anything on the list, so I'm not sure what my chances are of going.

Some events now open to reservations (and already gone):

http://www.ohny.eventbrite.com/

I am going to the Roosevelt House, Sat at noon.

Federally-operated sites scheduled to participate on OHNY Weekend will be closed this weekend. This includes the OHNY Weekend Information Hub, scheduled to be located at the Alexander Hamilton US Custom House/Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, and now relocated to the Neighborhood Preservation Center, 232 East 11th Street at Second Avenue. The Information Hub will be open from 10 am-4 pm Saturday and Sunday. Stop by for questions, event guides, and other information.

http://blog.ohny.org/tag/2013-wknd-updates/

haven't investigated at all for this weekend, i assume all the shiny spots are filled up.

http://www.ohny.org/weekend/overview

well if they're REALLY going to let you climb the 149 steps up the Jefferson Market Library tower -- i went one year and it had been cancelled -- i'd be up for that. Going up the Grand Army arch was some scary shit.

pick something for me to do

http://www.ohny.org/weekend/overview

Working today but I'm thinking of doing Bronx Community College buildings Sunday.

it's reservation day

http://www.ohny.org/weekend/reservations

Got into Custom House tour and Edward Hopper studio.

advance res day

https://www.ohny.org/weekend/reservations

first time in years i haven't made a res; might drop into the Eldridge St Museum today

felt like a light year in terms of big shiny must-dos or maybe i've just been here long enough that i've seen most of the big-ticket items. also just don't have a passion for 19th century interiors by and large, and that takes up a lot of the calendar. but still a grand resource.

In theory I wanted to see a lot of this, but I was content to take a walk to see the ceiling of the AT&T lobby and move on.

It's a hell of a ceiling!

Missed it again, rats. I love this but I like going to the far-flung and less popular sites--Floyd Bennet Field and the Highbridge Water Tower and the Little Red Lighthouse etc etc are standouts from past years. The whole idea of crowds and waiting in lines puts me right off.

NY Architecture/Design Film Festival just started up: https://adfilmfest.com/site/ny2018

Archtober events: https://2019.archtober.org

and this year's OHNY events list is unveiled tomorrow

I'm going to be in town for OHNY this year! I've done the Chicago one a bunch of times and am excited to check out sites in a new city.

lmk what whets your appetite

https://ohny.org/weekend/event-guide

reservations open

Hamilton Grange, anyone been?

It's open!

we're on our way out to some sightseein'!