Touring Secret New York - for Free
Manhattan Users Guide flags the upcoming OpenHouseNewYork which will allow all us in the unwashed masses to get into places normally off limits. Among the places you can tour this weekend are the insides of the Washington Square Arch, City Hall/Tweed Courthouse, Gracie Mansion, the roof of the Grand Army Plaza arch, the Grand Hall of Masons and the grounds of the Roosevelt Island Smallpox Hospital.

Update: Looks like London does the same thing on an annual basis, according to my friend Jonathan Oatis who used the occasion last month to tour BBC headquarters, the Australian Embassy and the Banqueting Hall in Whitehall. Jolly good show.
- posted by Amy @ 10/06/2003 09:06:00 AM