OPEN HOUSE NEW YORK comes to Westbeth Artist Housing

photo: Roger Braimon

A new site to this year’s #OHNYwknd, Westbeth Artist Housing was conceived in the 1960s in response to the lack of affordable housing and workspace for artists in New York.
Located in the former Bell Laboratories–where the first talking movie and the first TV broadcast were demonstrated–the 13-building complex was among the first examples of an adaptive reuse of an industrial building and one of architect Richard Meier’s first projects.

Westbeth is now the largest artist community in the country. #DailyReveal #newyorkisopen

TOUR. The FREE 45 minute tour begins at Westbeth, 155 Bank St in the courtyard. Tour are at noon, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5pm .

Street Easy names Westbeth is one of the 10 best of list places to visit in OPEN HOUSE NY http://streeteasy.com/blog/the-best-open-house-new-york-sites-2016/#

Westbeth’s programming is made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State. Westbeth is supported in part by an American Rescue Plan Act grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support general operating expenses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.