An Urban Omnibus-Eye View of New York City
Guest curated by Urban Omnibus, the series explores enduring social and spatial questions in New York City through places and projects featured by the publication over its fifteen-year history.
Series Description
This year, Urban Omnibus, The Architectural League’s publication dedicated to observing, understanding, and shaping New York City, celebrates fifteen years of raising new questions, illuminating diverse perspectives, and documenting creative projects to advance the collective work of citymaking.
Since its founding in 2009, Urban Omnibus has explored more than 1,000 sites across New York City through articles, interviews, and visual essays. For this OHNY Weekend, UO highlights places and projects it has featured, from microsites to megaprojects across all five boroughs.
Tours will explore enduring social and spatial questions: How to create inclusive public spaces? Ensure environmental justice? Build affordable housing? Address the climate crisis? Navigate gentrification? Each listing also includes a reading list with links to relevant articles from UO’s archives to go deeper.
We’ll visit public bathrooms, a food forest, an interstate highway, a “Super Sidewalk,” and more with guides who are deeply engaged in the collective work of citymaking. Activists, architects, planners, advocates, writers, stewards, and spiritual leaders will help us look closely at the city we live in and think deeply about the city we want to see.
For more information about Urban Ominibus, visit urbanomnibus.net
Series Lineup
34th Avenue Open Street Tour
Jackson Heights, Queens | Ticketed
American Indian Community House
Midtown, Manhattan | Open Access
Atlantic Yards Tour: A Megaproject Unresolved
Park Slope, Brooklyn | Ticketed
Bronx River Foodway
Hunts Point, Bronx | Open Access
Bushwick Starr
Bushwick, Brooklyn | Open Access
Creating a Better Public Bathroom System Tour
Upper West Side, Manhattan | Ticketed
Freshkills Park Nature Walk
Travis, Staten Island | Ticketed
Kingsland Wildflowers Green Roofs
Greenpoint, Brooklyn | Open Access
Playground for All Children
Flushing Meadows, Queens | Ticketed
Michael Sorkin Reading Room at the Spitzer School of Architecture CCNY
Harlem, Manhattan | Ticketed
St James Church, Fordham: Sacred Architecture and Supportive Housing
Kingsbridge, Bronx | Ticketed
Street Lab Office and Warehouse
Columbia Waterfront District, Brooklyn | Open Access
Super Sidewalk at 9th Avenue
Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan | Ticketed
Walking the Cross Bronx
Mount Eden, Bronx | Ticketed
This series includes a mix of Open Access and Ticketed experiences. Open Access locations are free to visit without reservations. Some locations require tickets. Ticketing opens on October 8 at 11 am.
Full details, including times and locations, will be released on October 1.
Series Partner
Special Offer
Urban Ominibus is gifting Open House New Yorkers their special edition map with a donation of $25 or more to Urban Omnibus’ 15th anniversary campaign. The map is a guide to some highlights from fifteen years of UO stories, with original illustrations! Here’s how they did it.
Through October 21 only. Get your map here.
Illustrations by Stipan Tadić