OHNY Weekend - Fort Totten

Open House New York allows visitors to visit rarely seen spaces around New York. The wide variety of sites that host the weekend-long event range from boardrooms to bedrooms, crypts to clubs, factories to firehouses, lighthouses to lookouts, monuments to mansions, skyscrapers to substations.

Built in 1862, Fort Totten was designed to protect the approaches from Confederate ships to New York by way of the East River. The fort remained in use until the 1970s, including as a stockpile for Nike missiles and anti-aircraft batteries. Parts of the grounds are still used by the Fire & Police Departments and the Army Reserve.