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Noble Signs / New York Sign Museum, one of the 300+ locations that opened their doors during the 2025 Open House New York Weekend festival. Photo: Molly Woodward

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
50k
Participants

Join us!

1,000
Volunteers

A people powered event

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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