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who we are
openhousenewyork promotes awareness and appreciation of New York City's architecture, design and cultural heritage through year-round programming including openhousenewyork Weekend, America’s largest architecture and design event. openhousenewyork (OHNY) offers hundreds of talks, tours, family workshops, podcasts, and performances—all free of charge. OHNY expects more than 200,000 visitors to celebrate its 7th Annual OHNY Weekend by discovering hidden treasures in NYC neighborhoods in all five boroughs.

mission
openhousenewyork celebrates New York City’s architecture and design. OHNY promotes a greater appreciation of NYC’s built-environment; broadens public awareness by exposing a diverse audience to distinctive examples of architecture, engineering and design; educates discussion of issues of excellence in planning and preservation; showcases outstanding new work, as well as buildings and structures of historic merit.

The 7th Annual openhousenewyork Weekend will be held October 10 & 11, 2009. Interpretive event guides and children’s activity guides will be distributed for free at over 300 sites and programs and throughout NYC schools.

openhousenewyork kids! features tours, design workshops, studio visits, activity guides, and teacher’s curriculum guide. Activities will also be available at ohny.org/kids
opendialoguenewyork provides on-site talks and tours given by architects and designers.
OHNY tours offer guided walking, cycling and paddling tours in and around the city.
sustainablenewyork walking tours and talks focus on environmentally conscious design.
architecturemoves integrates design, dance, and music in site-specific performances.
focus on architecture photography competition promotes a different way of seeing NYC.

lead sponsors

marketing and public relations

2009 media coverage expected to reach an audience of 200 million
www.ohny.org receives over 8 million individual hits in the months prior to the event
The New York Times insert of 503,000 openhousenewyork event guides· The The New York Times printing 50,000 OHNY Kids! Activity guides distributed to 400 schools in all five boroughs
125 arts, education and civic institutions participate in OHNY Weekend building new audiences and reaching out to diverse communities
Past media highlights include: The Architect’s Newspaper, The Financial Times, Metropolis, New York Living, New York Magazine, The New York Post, The New York Times, The New Yorker, NY1 TV, Time Out New York, Vanity Fair, WNBC-TV, WABC-TV, and WNYC-AM/FM

financials
openhousenewyork receives funding from corporations, corporate and private foundations, city, state and federal agencies, and individuals. Founded in 2001, openhousenewyork is a 501(c) 3 not-for-profit organization.

press releases

Media Contacts: Linda G. Miller, 212.725.7656, lindagmiller@earthlink.net
Deborah Kirschner, 917.239.7696, deborahkirschner@hotmail.com

2009 media report
2009 press release
2008 media report
2008 press release
2007 press release
2006 press release

photo credits

To access high-resolution OHNY images, please email info@ohny.org

photos courtesy of our site and program sponsors and the following:

architecturemoves: Angels and Accordians, Jeff Richman; The Crane Wife, Angel Hess; The Lilac Dances, Miguel Anaya.

openhousenewyork Kids! : A Garden of Shapes, Mick Hales; Crane Wife Kids Workshop, Angel Hess; Family Architecture Workshop and Tour, Ann De Vere; Grants Life Through Architecture, Maureen Green; Japanese Architecture for Kids, Peter Aaron ESTO; Livable Streets, Amalia Nicholas; Mansion Mysteries, Madaleine Doering; OHNY Weekend Kids Festival, Center for Architecture Foundation; How Green is Your Roof, Nicole DeFeo; Uncover Historic Richmondtown, Michael McWeeney; Weeksville Scavenger Hunt, Scott Ellison Smith.

openhousenewyork Tours: artHARLEM Studio Tour, Cynthia Reed; Coney Island Talking Boardwalk, Phil Tanfield; Ellis Island South Side + Ferry Building Tour, Virginia Mastronardi; Engineering New York, Michelle + James Nevus; High Bridge Park, Sean G. Rasmussen; Madison Square Park Walking Tour, Dan Abatelli; Midtown Modern, Theodore Prudon; Old Croton Aqueduct, Charlotte Fahn; Red Hook Walking Tour, Adrienne Onofri; Sacred Havens of the East Village, Terri Cook; Tudor City Tours, The Brown Brothers; Upper West Side Tour, Martin Schneit; Writers + Religion in Old Brooklyn Heights, Rich Garr.

Bronx: Betances Community Center, Frank Oudeman; Bronx Museum of the Arts, Norman McGrath.

Brooklyn: 93 Nevins, Halstead Development Marketing; The Atlantic Avenue Tunnel, Justin N. Lane; BellTel, BellTel Lofts; Brooklyn Academy of Music, H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture; Brooklyn Lyceum, Marc Rosenblatt, Greenpoint View, S. Ascher; Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, Nancy Campbell; Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant, Walter Dufresne; Pier Glass Art Studio, Diana Pau; Red Hook Carriage House + Office; Thomas Warnke; St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Bob Griffith; Waterfront Museum and Showboat Barge, David Sharp; Weeksville Heritage Center, Scott Ellison Smith.

Manhattan: 7 World Trade Center, David Sunberg; BBG-BBGM Design Studios, Fredrick Charles; Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, Stephen Aviano; Chrysler Building Lobby, Tishman Speyer; The Church of the Ascension, G. Jan Jones; Control Group Offices/Woolworth Building, Nick Goddard; Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum; Duane Street Live/Work Loft, Jeff Goldberg ESTO; Dwell95, Hae-In Kim; First Baptist Church of Christ the Scientist, Michael Beldoch; Spaced: Gallery of Architecture, J.H. Aronson; General Grant National Memorial, Maureen Green; General Society of Mechanics and Tradesman, Amiaga Photographers; Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Steven Klund; H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture, Christy Banister; Harry F. Sinclair House, Ihor Barabakh; Heather Garden at Fort Tyron, Jeffrey Hoppa; The High Line, Iwan Baan; Hopper Studio, Dawn Miner; The Illumination of 7WTC, Fabio Tuchiya; illy Push Button House, Evan Sung; Instituto Cervantes at Amster Yard, Brian Rose; Japan Society, Peter Aaron ESTO; Kips Bay Towers, Virginia Smith; Little Red Lighthouse, Madeleine Isom; Merchant’s House Museum, Jook Leung; Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden, Geoffrey Gross; Murray’s Cheese, Nola Lopez; Museum of Art and Design, Helene Binet; The New Museum, Dean Kaufman; The New York Public Library Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Peter Aaron ESTO; NYU Department of Philosophy, Maria Skouras; Octagon and Lighthouse Park, Paul Warchol; Official NYC Information Center, Paul Warchol; Perkins + Will Office, Eduard Hueber; Riverside Drive Apartment, Gary Noel; Smyth Tribeca, Michael Weber; St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church; St. Vincent de Paul Church, Claire Lesteven; The Standard, Jeffrey Goldberg ESTO; Temple Emanu-El, Brian Rose Photography; Tenri Cultural Institute of New York, Jongseo Kim; Van Alen Institute, Jeffrey Goldberg ESTO; The Visionaire, Jeffrey Goldberg ESTO; What If Innovation, Peter Hosmer; The Wild Project, Josh Lutz.

Queens: Build It Green! NYC; Frank Sinatra School of the Arts High School, Polshek Partnership Architects; The Hindu Temple Society of North America, Janet Bonelli; Louis Armstrong House Museum, Judy Chiang; Queens Botanical Garden, Nicole DeFeo; Sculpture Center, Barry Halkin; Tenrikyo Mission New York Center, Jongeso Kim.

Staten Island: Alice Austen House Museum; The Boehm House, Jeffrey Cavorley; The Christopher House, Jeffrey Cavorley; Conference House Museum, Steve Weiss; Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art.