Open House New York [1] which will be held this coming Saturday and Sunday gives New Yorkers who love their built environment the chance to get up close and personal with buildings and constructed spaces.
Guides to the house, powerhouse and walking tours will be included in Wednesday's New York Times as well as online [2]. There are 300 places to visit which have been opened up for free for the weekend. Many require reservations. For example, the High Line; (the elevated rail tracks overgrown with weeds and rusted with disuse on the west side of Manhattan.) Many of those are already filled completely -- tours of the broken down small pox hospital on the south end of Roosevelt Island are completely booked. But many sites require no reservation.
My favorite places after the jump:
The Woolworth Building opposite City Hall park, Bronx Community College which has some of the finest work ever done by Stanford White including my favorite: the Gould Memorial Library. (Named for robber-baron Jay Gould, it's no longer a library but it is exquisite. Pratt House in Brooklyn's Fort Greene.
In the past I've climbed inside the Arch at Grand Army Plaza to the top, visited the madly overdecorated Montauk Club and climbed the clock tower of the Jefferson Market Courthouse Library (great views of Greenwich Village's tiny mews).
I'll be in Brooklyn all Saturday. In the afternoon, come visit me at Nevins & Pacific [3] at a newly constructed green architecture pair of townhouses which -- people who know about such things (not me) -- say are just wonderful. I'll be wearing a black t-shirt with a drawing of the top of the Woolworth Building. See you there.
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