Thank you for your purchase of an OHNY Weekend Passport! Here are some collections handpicked by the OHNY Weekend production team to help you save time, see more, and maximize your festival experience.
Note that the list below was published on October 1, and there are always several changes, additions, and cancellations to the festival lineup leading up to and throughout OHNY Weekend. Check our Updates page regularly to stay up to date.
Collections include both Open Access and Ticketed sites. As a reminder, ticketing opens on October 8 at 11 am.
STAFF PICKS
New sites making their OHNY Weekend debut and returning fan favorites.
Hindu Temple Society of North America
Flushing, Queens
Fri, Sat, Sun: 10am – 6pm
Open Access
One of the most impressive and historically significant Hindu Temples in the West.
Bronx Topographical Maps: Mapping the Borough’s History
Fordham Manor, Bronx
Sat: 10am – 4pm
Open Access
A showcase of more than 500 square feet of maps, presented in Fordham University’s newly built McShane Center.
Powerhouse Arts:
Tours and Workshops
Gowanus, Brooklyn
Sat, Sun: 12 – 6pm
Open Access
An historic power plant reimagined as a new art center that meets multidisciplinary needs of the contemporary arts ecosystem.
Sunset Park Materials Recovery Facility
Sunset Park, Brooklyn
Sat: 12 – 4pm
Open Access
New York City’s state of the art recycling facility, where 1,000 tons of residential recycling is received and processed every day.
Alice Austen House:
Queer Ecologies Garden
Rosebank, Staten Island
Sun: 12 – 4pm
Open Access
A site of LGBTQ+ significance, the gardens of the Alice Austen house have been created to serve as a gathering place that fosters understanding.
MIDTOWN MAGIC
Nothing matches the history and dynamism of Midtown Manhattan. As the iconic beating heart of the city continues its comeback, these Saturday Open Access sites spotlight the multiple dimensions of the center of a global city.
Times Square, Manhattan
Sat: 10am – 2pm
Open Access
Founded by six suffragists as the “The Peoples’ Hall” the theater has hosted major artists from Billie Holiday to Bob Dylan.
Ford Foundation Center
for Social Justice
Tudor City, Manhattan
Sat: 10am – 4pm
Open Access
Get a special look at the Ford Family Auditorium and 11th Floor Overlook, in addition to the unforgettable atrium garden.
General Society of
Mechanics and Tradesmen
of the City of New York
Midtown, Manhattan
Sat: 11am – 4pm
Open Access
The second oldest library in the city is home to more than 370 locks, keys and tools dating
from 2,000 BC.
American Indian Community House
Midtown, Manhattan
Sat, Sun: 12 – 4pm
Open Access
The oldest Native American non profit in the Tri-State area, and a launchpad for many artists and cultural producers.
Art Students League of New York
Midtown, Manhattan
Sat, Sun: 10am – 2pm
Open Access
Housed in a c. 1892 French Renaissance-style building, the League has been a crucial custodian for art history in the U.S. since its inception.
SUNDAY IN SUNSET PARK
A bustling city within a city, Sunset Park is a neighborhood of deep character and boundless innovation. This collection of Sunday Open Access sites features transformed spaces along the neighborhood’s industrial waterfront and a network of artists and designers leaving their mark on the city.
Sunset Park, Brooklyn
Sat, Sun: 12 – 4pm
Open Access
An architectural and engineering marvel that has become a center of manufacturing and innovation on Brooklyn’s waterfront.
Sunset Park, Brooklyn
Sun: 10am – 3pm
Open Access
The leading rooftop farming and intensive green roofing business in the US, operating the world’s largest rooftop soil farms.
Sunset Park, Brooklyn
Fri: 6 – 9pm
Sat, Sun: 1 – 5pm
Open Access
A multi-day arts celebration with exhibitions, events and open studios featuring hundreds of participating artists and art spaces from across the neighborhood.
BioBAT Art Space at
Brooklyn Army Terminal
Sunset Park, Brooklyn
Sat, Sun: 12 – 4pm
Open Access
A non-profit gallery dedicated to the intersection of art and science, featuring works that push the boundaries of both fields.
ChaShaMa Open Studios
at Brooklyn Army Terminal
Sunset Park, Brooklyn
Sat, Sun: 2 – 6pm
Open Access
Transforming unused space into hubs of creativity for artists, community-centric art classes, and small businesses since 1995.
Makerspace NYC at
Brooklyn Army Terminal
Sunset Park, Brooklyn
Sat, Sun: 12 – 4pm
Open Access
A 40,000 sq ft fabrication facility for artists, designers, craftspeople, makers, and manufacturers at the Brooklyn Army Terminal.
MULTIMODAL NEW YORK
OHNY Weekend can be explored on foot, by bus, canoes, and more. Here’s a round-up for adventurous straphangers, runners, boaters, and skaters.
Civic Center, Manhattan
Sat: 9am – 2pm
Open Access
A grass-roots community effort reimagining how spaces under the iconic Brooklyn Bridge in Manhattan can become a new type of urban community park.
Running Tour: Central Park and the Center at Harlem Meer
Upper West Side, Manhattan
Sat: 10 – 11:30am
Ticketed
This 4-mile run winds through Central Park, culminating in a visit to the Center at the Harlem Meer, a new environment on the site of the Lasker Rink and Pool.
Chelsea, Manhattan
Sat: 10am – 2pm
Open Access
Join NYC Skateboard Coalition on a guided tour of the park and uncover the history of a signature NYC subculture and the transformative power of a skate park as a public space.
MTA Arts & Design:
Art on the Elevated in Astoria
Astoria, Queens
Sat: 11am
Ticketed
A guided tour of contemporary public artworks along five elevated subway stations in Astoria, Queens, featuring works commissioned by MTA Arts & Design.
Gowanus Canal Self-Guided Canoe Trips
Gowanus, Brooklyn
Sat, Sun: 2 – 6pm
Open Access
The Gowanus Dredgers invite you to come witness changes to the neighborhood from a whole new perspective: a free, self-guided canoe trip and learn about the cleanup and what the future could hold for the area’s community.
TOUCH GRASS:
EXPLORING THE GREAT OUTDOORS
The jungle is not all concrete! This collection offers a wealth of opportunities to explore urban agriculture, aquaculture, and the tucked-away peaceful green spaces that balance out the bustle of the city.
Hunts Point, Bronx
Fri: 10am – 12pm
Open Access
A pilot project of the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation and one of New York City’s only edible food forests, located inside Concrete Plant Park.
East New York, Brooklyn
Sat: 10am – 2pm
Open Access
Featuring fresh and organic produce, fruit trees, and flowers all grown from seed on site, East New York Farms! works closely with young people from the neighborhood to steward the site.
Billion Oyster Project:
Walking Tour
Governors Island, Manhattan
Sat, Sun: 12:30 – 4pm
Open Access
Get an in-depth look at the ambitious project to restore a billion oysters in the New York Harbor! Join an immersive walking tour of the organization’s operations, including oyster sites and the shell pile.
Upper West Side, Manhattan
Sun: 10am – 2pm
Open Access
Perched atop the salmon-brick Columbia condo tower’s parking garage, this oasis in the sky features varied flowers, fruit trees, shrubs, and lotus ponds inhabited by schools of fish.
Alice Austen House:
Queer Ecologies Garden
Rosebank, Staten Island
Sun: 12 – 4pm
Open Access
A site of LGBTQ+ significance, the gardens of the Alice Austen house have been created to serve as a gathering place that fosters understanding.
PERFORMANCE SPACES
Theaters and performance spaces across the five boroughs, from iconic 20th-century institutions to new homes of historic cultural organizations.
Centennial Memorial Temple
of The Salvation Army
Greenwich Village, Manhattan
Fri: 2 – 6pm
Open Access
This state-of-the-art performance hall was designated a New York City landmark in 2017.
Times Square, Manhattan
Sat: 10am – 2pm
Open Access
Founded by six suffragists as the “The Peoples’ Hall” the theater has hosted major artists from Billie Holiday to Bob Dylan.
Bushwick, Brooklyn
Sat: 12 – 4pm
Open Access
The new home of the award-winning nonprofit theater, designed by Bureau V Architecture.
Melrose, Bronx
Sun: 2 – 6pm
Open Access
A brand-new performance venue and community cultural center. Free performances by Bronx artists at 3 and 5 pm.
Apollo Stages at the Victoria Theater
Harlem, Manhattan
Sun: 12, 1, 2, 3pm
Ticketed
The first physical expansion in the iconic Harlem theater’s 90-year history at a 1917 Lowe’s movie palace.