Special Series — 2025 OHNY Weekend

The 2025 OHNY Weekend includes eight curated series with multiple sites that open up around a common theme or neighborhood.

Affordable Housing

From public housing preservation to adaptive reuse, explore how city agencies, community organizations, designers, and developers are working to create housing that responds to the city’s most pressing need. Presented in partnership with Goldstein Hall.

Alphabet City

Explore New York City’s rich visual culture of signage and typography.

Bloomberg Connects

Expert-curated content, including video and audio guides for these locations, is available on Bloomberg Connects, the free app that connects people to arts and culture at any time, from anywhere.

Building with Steel

Visit award-winning projects and hear from steel experts about new and innovative uses for structural steel, guest curated by the American Institute of Steel Construction.

Family Friendly

Bring the kids! More than a dozen OHNY Weekend partners are offering special activities for families. Most activities are free and open to the public.

Innovation in Preservation

Uncover the techniques, tools, and materials helping practitioners breathe new life into historic architecture, landscape design, and decorative and fine arts, produced in partnership with the Richard Hampton Jenrette Foundation.

Sunset Park

Explore Sunset Park during OHNY Weekend, where historic industrial hubs along the Brooklyn waterfront now thrive with makers, artists, manufacturers, and innovators keeping New York’s “maker” spirit alive.

Water Works

Discover how water shapes the city, from the system of pipes that delivers 1 billion gallons of clean water into (and out of) homes daily, to the working waterfront that drove the city’s economy for centuries, to the challenges of adapting 520 miles of shoreline for a wetter future.