Next weekend, October 10 and 11, New York City will have its 7th annual Open House weekend, in which hundreds of normally closed-off sites, both public and privately owned, will be open to the masses for tours. I absolutely love this concept, and wish both that it existed in other cities, but even more that I had heard of it while I was home during that weekend in past years!
New York Times has an article on the event.
Official website, with details and schedules, is here.
I hope that every single reader in the NYC area takes advantage of this special opportunity, and if any of you do so, please drop a comment to say what you managed to visit.
We’ve had the same event in France for 25 years and it is now a global event in 49 european countries on the 3rd weekend of September.
http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/cultureheritage/heritage/ehd/default_EN.asp?
Yeah EVERY single reader in New York,
that’ll be about, what, two at best ?
We definitely have several regular or semi-regular readers around New York, though I don’t think they comment much.
Curzon and I are both from New Jersey, Adam is from CT, and Joe studied in Philly. So even among our friends and such from the US there’s many dozens of people in/near NYC.
I lived in Westchester,NY.
Well, here’s one humble NYC-based reader who’s going to Open House.
We have it in Britain too. You can go to places like the Bank of England which are closed to the public the rest of the year. It was in September.
http://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/
http://www.openhouse.org.uk/public/london/event.html
I used to live in Manhattan but am now based in Tokyo
so I suppose that doesn’t really count
New York based reader, might well not be going to any Open House events. Weather forecast for Saturday is for rain.
May just pass on any of the events that require reservations and see if the weather cooperates for the more open stuff.