Open House New York

Name: Open House New York
Start: 2025-10-17T15:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-17T16:30:00-04:00
Location: Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden

Schedule

Fri Oct 17 2025 at 03:00 pm to 04:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden | Staten Island, NY

Open House New York promotes broad, unparalleled access to the city—to the places, people, projects, systems, and ideas that define New York and its future. Through our year-round programming, including the annual OHNY Weekend festival, OHNY offers a citywide platform for education, exploration, and engagement about the connections between quality of place and quality of life for all New Yorkers.
WHEN: October 17, 18, 19 (times vary by event)
WHERE: Visitor Info Booth at Snug Harbor (View site map: https://snug-harbor.org/visit/directions/)
ADMISSION: All events are free of charge. Advance registration highly recommended: https://snugharbor.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/events/a0SQg000007fFQTMA2
Heritage Farm and Compost Tour (October 18 and 19, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM) - See our seeding, learn our crop plan, and how we nourish the soil on the Heritage Farm. Then see where we turn food waste into valuable compost!
Art and Architecture Tour (October 17 at 3:00 PM, October 18 at 1:00 PM, October 19 at 1:00 PM) - Learn the history of our 19th century campus and the architecture that put Snug Harbor on the map of irreplaceable architectural collections, featuring six of the first 40 New York City landmarks.
Entre la Coca y el Oro exhibition at the Newhouse Center - Building C (Saturday, October 18, 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM) - Entre la Coca y el Oro is an exhibition by Tatiana Arocha that weaves art and community together to reclaim the narrative surrounding the coca plant. The exhibition explores coca’s cultural, spiritual, social, and ecological significance while pushing back against colonial and extractivist perspectives. Arocha’s work foregrounds ancestral knowledge, environmental justice, and Indigenous resistance, offering a space for collective reflection, education, and artistic exploration.