Get a peek at some of the city’s most important architectural wonders from the inside at the annual Open House New York event, plus public art, geeky cinema, memorable music and more.

Downtown Brooklyn

Either/Or (NYC) & Ensemble Son (Stockholm) – A Double Quartet Collaboration
New York City’s Either/Or and Stockholm’s Ensemble Son team up for five world premieres commissioned specifically for this unique international collaboration by composers from the US and Sweden.
Wednesday, October 19, 8PM
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn
Tickets: $20

Financial District

Monk at 96
Thelonious Monk was a bebop and a jazz innovator–this annual jazz series counts down to Monk’s 100th birthday with celebrated contemporary pianists.
Thursday, October 10, 12PM
Brookfield Place, Winter Garden, 220 Vesey Street
Free

Midtown East

Roti Free Dinner to Benefit City Harvest
Popular Mediterranean grill-to-go spot Roti is celebrating the opening of a new midtown location by partnering with City Harvest to provide a free meal (with suggested $5 donation to City Harvest, so consider it a well-spent discount) from 6-9 PM to visitors who dine and donate (via NYDN).
Thursday, October 10, 6-9PM
Roti Mediterranean Grill, 142 East 43rd Street
$5 suggested donation

Upper West Side

Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson Performs “Thick as a Brick”
Ian Anderson will be performing both his famous composition “Thick as a Brick” in its entirety for this world tour, which will also include material from his new album, Thick as a Brick 2.
Thursday, October 10-Friday, October 11, 8PM
Beacon Theatre, 2124 Broadway
Tickets: $50-150

Midtown West

CBGB Music Festival
The 2nd Annual CBGB Music & Film Festival will once again host a free, multi-stage concert spanning nine city blocks on Broadway in Times Square. This year’s fest features favorites like Lisa Loeb, The Wallflowers, Grizzly Bear, My Morning Jacket and many more, including up-and-coming artists.
Saturday, October 12, 11AM
Broadway, Times Square
Free

Chelsea

Public Art: The Sheep Station
Sheep Station, featuring the work of late artist François-Xavier Lalanne, is the inaugural exhibition of Getty Station, a new public art program located at the former Getty filling station in West Chelsea. Sheep Station showcasse iconic epoxy stone and bronze “Moutons” set in a surrealist landscape amidst the existing industrial gas station architecture.
Through October 20, 2013
Getty Station, 239 10th Avenue
Free and open to the public
City-wide

Open House New York
The 11th Annual OHNY Weekend is a citywide celebration of extraordinary architecture and design. From private residences and historic landmarks to rooftop farms and sustainable skyscrapers, OHNY Weekend offers rare access and insight into hundreds of architecturally and culturally significant sites in all five boroughs as well as free talks, youth and family activities and tours on foot, bicycle–and even by canoe.
October 12-13, citywide; see site for locations, tickets and reservations

Imagine Science Film Festival
The 6th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival promises to be an exciting week of films presenting scientific fact in compelling visual narrative. The festival will explore how data can be translated into cinematic stories. Full day programs will feature avant-garde science bits, docs, footage from actual lab experiments, discussion about the aesthetics of data and kid-friendly science-based films.
October 11-18, see site for venues, screenings and events
All access pass $50