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OHNY Weekend

October 16-18, 2026: 300+ destinations, 3 days, 1 citywide festival.

A truck exits a modern glass-paneled building on a sunny day.
Department of Sanitation's Brooklyn District 3 Garage is one of the 300+ locations opening their doors for the 2026 Open House New York Weekend. Photo: Albert Vecerka/Esto

Open House New York Weekend is an annual festival that unlocks 300 destinations across all five boroughs for behind-the-scenes tours and special activities.


Take a look at new buildings transforming the skyline, step inside infrastructure facilities keeping the city running, explore parks offering respite, discover state-of-the-art performance spaces, visit manufacturing workshops, browse private collections, and much more.


Do you have keys to a place more New Yorkers should know about, or a great story to tell about the city? Share your ideas with the festival team at ohnywknd@ohny.org


SEPT18
Members Preview
SEPT25
Public Reveal
OCT02
Ticket Release
OCT15
Launch Party
OCT16–18
Festival

Festival Preview

A few destinations you can expect to see at the 2026 festival.

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Flatiron Building at sunset, surrounded by city buildings, with the sky fading from blue to pink.

The Flatiron Building at Dusk

with Beyer Blinder Belle and L’Observatoire International

Flatiron, Manhattan

A person removes a freshly printed stop sign from a screen printing machine in a workshop.

DOT Sign Shop

with NYC Department of Transportation

Maspeth, Queens

Gothic-style cathedral with two spires, surrounded by skyscrapers, red flowers, and green bushes.

Rockefeller Center Gardens

with Tishman Speyer

Midtown, Manhattan

Industrial building interior with open walkways, balconies, glass roof, and outdoor seating on the ground level.

Brooklyn Army Terminal

with NYC Economic Development Corporation

Sunset Park, Brooklyn

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Participants

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1,000
Volunteers

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300
Destinations

Tours, activities, and exploration

5
Boroughs

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Festival Moments

A person being belayed in a rigging harness inside a large warehouse.
Iron Workers Local 40 & 361 Training Center. Photo: Julie Thompson
Several people stand on a large rooftop lawn bordered by hedges. The adjacent tall building fills the horizon.
Rockefeller Center Loft and Gardens. Photo: Tom Minieri
A tour group listens to a docent discuss the paintings on the gallery walls. The space is a high-ceilinged former church with arched gothic windows.
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Photo: Ben Helmer
A singer performs onstage at Bronxlandia.
Bronxlandia. Photo: Ben Helmer
Two DEP workers demonstrate listening equipment beside an open manhole. A group of visitors watch them work.
Midnight Leak Detection with DEP. Photo: Jean Schwarzwalder/DEP
A smiling woman demonstrates the qualities of coffee bean roasting to a table of interested guests.
Buunni Roasting Room. Photo: Ben Helmer
A group of people listen to an engineer discuss the building model on a cabinet next to him.
TY Lin office tour. Photo: Ben Helmer
A six-person rowboat departs the dock in Long Island City. The Manhattan skyline is visible in the background.
Rowing at Anable Basin with the Long Island City Community Boathouse. Photo: Bella Muccari

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