openhousenewyork year round programs
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Check back for year-round programs led by architects, scholars and designers. Events include tours, talks and special programs focused on New York City’s architecture and design.

openhousenewyork created fee-based, educational programs in 2006 focusing on public discourse with architects, designers, planners and scholars. These year-round programs offer unique lectures, site tours and walking tours of New York City’s special places and spaces. From its Annual OHNY Weekend and throughout the year, openhousenewyork continues to ensure that the public can obtain exclusive access and have intimate conversations with those who design and influence NYC’s built environment. See below for past programs.  

Upcoming year-round program
November 5, 2007, 6-8 pm

Join openhousenewyork, Wall Street Rising and Pentagram or an interactive lecture on the history of Lower Manhattan. Historian James Sanders will discuss the history of Downtown, using Pentagram’s interactive model of Wall Street.

Check back soon for more details. Tickets will be available Tuesday, October 15.

Past year-round programs:

2007, July
OHNY joined the New Museum of Contemporary Art for the second Annual Countdown to Downtown: New Museum Family Day. OHNY educators led activities in which children imagined, designed and built models of their ideal neighborhood playgrounds.

2007, June
Tudor City Tours, led by resident historians, highlighted Fred F. French's design and planning of some of New York City's earliest studio apartments and pied-a-terres built en masse.

Tudor City Talk and Tour, presented by resident historians, Gauer & Marron Studio and L'Impero Restaurant, showcased interior designer James Gauer's Tudor City studio and his creative design solutions for small homes within this historic neighborhood, followed by a reception at in Tudor City's hidden Italian restaurant, I'Impero.

2007, May
A behind the scenes walking tour Gansevoort Market in Transition within the Meatpacking District, one of New York City's hottest and most historic neighborhoods.  Presented by the Meatpacking District Initiative.

2007, April
Walking tours of Times Square, Peeling Back the Neon by the Times Square Alliance took a look at a century of design in Times Square.

OHNY Kids! walking tour and scavenger hunt, From Working Seaport to Living City offered families an afternoon of exploration at the South Street Seaport.  Kids identified how historic and modern buildings work together to create new spaces and who makes these projects possible.

2006, August
Lost City Hall Subway tour with architectural historian Robert Klara.

2006, April & May
7 World Trade Center tour with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Architects
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2006, February
General Theological Seminary, tour and wine and cheese reception with talk by Sam White, architectural historian and grandson of Architect Stanford White.