for anyone not headed to DC:


let's OpenHouseNewYork weekend!

i know it's no national equality march. but maybe we can still make posters and bring 'em to:

*brooklyn navy yards bike tour?
(sat/sun 2pm reservations required)

*the abandoned ellis island hospital?
(sat/sun 9:30, 11, 12:30, 2, 3:30, free reservations required, ferry $12)

*private mausoleums at woodlawn cemetary?
(open sat/sun 8:30-5, tours at 2pm reservations required)

*writers & religion in old brooklyn heights?
(sun 12:30pm reservations required)

*tom otterness' studio, carroll gardens?
(talks with artist sat/sun 10:30, 1, 3 - reservations required)

*grand lodge of the masons, chelsea?
(sat/sun 10am-4pm)

*the push-button house, gansevoort plaza?
(sat 10am-11pm, sun 10am-7pm)


lemme know if you wanna go check anything out with me. i'm open(house)!


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check out newyorkology's list of reservation required events that are still open (unfortunately lots of the cool ones are already booked up.)

view a full list of the sites by borough, or by day.

download a PDF guide to weekend events

Labels: architecture, new york, ohny, open house new york

* deconstructionist architecture
* opened the legendary 70s soho restaurant run by artists, food
* helped found 112
* cut up (illegally) a notorious (s&m) hudson pier to resemble a basilica
* split houses in two
* bought small abandoned plots of land around nyc and conducted "tiny estate" tours

All before he died of cancer. At age 35.

Opens Thursday

Labels: architecture, art, matta-clark, the whitney