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Due to a planned New York Harbor closure and planned street closures in Lower Manhattan, Governors Island will close at 3PM on Friday, July 4, 2025. More info.

Due to a planned New York Harbor closure and planned street closures in Lower Manhattan, Governors Island will close at 3PM on Friday, July 4, 2025. More info.

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Open­House­GI Per­mit Process for Gov­er­nors Island’s 2015 Pub­lic Sea­son Now Open

Dec 4, 2014 2:37 pm
[cap­tion id=“attachment_7873” align=“aligncenter” width=“627”]In 2014, this workshop that was a part of OpenHouseGI was enjoyed by many Island visitors. In 2014, this work­shop that was a part of Open­House­GI was enjoyed by many Island visitors.[/caption] The Open­House­GI per­mit process for Gov­er­nors Island’s 2015 pub­lic access sea­son is now open. Open­House­GI offers 150,000 square feet of indoor space in for­mer offi­cers’ hous­es and over 20 acres of out­door space free of charge to any orga­ni­za­tion that cre­ates pro­gram­ming that is free and open to the pub­lic dur­ing the Island’s pub­lic sea­son. All orga­ni­za­tions are wel­come to apply to Open­House­GI through the Trust’s web­site. In 2015, Gov­er­nors Island will be open every day from May 23 through Sep­tem­ber 27. Open­House­GI offers more than two dozen for­mer offi­cers’ homes in Nolan Park and Colonels Row for groups to use. Due to unprece­dent­ed demand for indoor spaces, the 2015 sea­son will be divid­ed into two ses­sions. Ses­sion I runs from May 23-July 20 and Ses­sion II runs from July 21-Sep­tem­ber 27. Groups wish­ing to use indoor spaces apply for only one of the two ses­sions. Groups using indoor spaces for the first half of the sea­son may have the oppor­tu­ni­ty to extend their use of the space if it is avail­able for the sec­ond ses­sion. Open­House­GI also offers near­ly 25 acres of out­door space for pro­grams. These include the Colonels Row Fes­ti­val Grounds, the Parade Ground and Nolan Park. In 2015, South Bat­tery, a two acre green space locat­ed a short dis­tance from Yan­kee Pier, will open for the first time. With its his­toric sand­stone wall and Mark Handforth’s ​“Saf­fron Star” it could be used for a wide range of pro­grams, includ­ing dance and the­atri­cal per­for­mances. The Play Lawn Oval, a two acre lawn in the new park adja­cent to the ball­fields, will also be avail­able. This ver­sa­tile space could be used for out­door art, per­for­mances or oth­er activ­i­ties. In 2014, more than 60 orga­ni­za­tions pro­duced site spe­cif­ic dance per­for­mances, edu­ca­tion­al work­shops, the­atri­cal pro­duc­tions, recre­ation­al and sports pro­grams, art exhibits, and much more for Island vis­i­tors. The Island typ­i­cal­ly wel­comes 8,000 vis­i­tors each week­end day and in 2014, wel­comed 476,000 vis­i­tors. More than 75% of vis­i­tors to the Island are from New York City. All of the infor­ma­tion need­ed to apply can be found at gov​is​land​.com. We look for­ward to the 2015 sea­son being the best one yet for Gov­er­nors Island.
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