New York daily agenda: Archtober

Archtober 2026 schedule for Oct. 24-31: this week’s lineup of boat tours, talks, workshops and family programs across New York City. Archtober is the city’s annual Architecture and Design Month, and the list below is organized by day, with times, organizers and format. For details and registration, see the official Archtober events page (https://www.archtober.org/2026/events).

Saturday, Oct. 24
  • 10:30 a.m. — Art and Architecture Tour (Grace Farms Foundation); tour
  • 10:30 a.m. — Crypt Crawl — Cathedral of St. John the Divine; tour
  • 11 a.m. — Brooklyn Botanic Garden Fall Harvest Festival; special event
  • 11 a.m. — Hidden History of the South Street Seaport’s Architecture (South Street Seaport Museum); tour
  • 11 a.m. — Exclusive Access Tour of the Woolworth Building (Untapped New York); tour
  • 11 a.m. — Walking Tour: Historic Buildings and New Interventions in SoHo (Center for Architecture); tour
  • 11:30 a.m. — Guggenheim Museum Architecture Tour (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum); tour
  • noon — Vertical Tour — Cathedral of St. John the Divine; tour
  • noon — Subtle Bodies: Self-Reflection Through Aura Photography — Fall Session (Alice Austen House); workshop
  • 1 p.m. — “CoHousing in the Hudson Valley: Building Community Then and Now” (The Fullerton); talk
  • 1 p.m. — Building of the Day: Marcus Garvey Village and Extension (Center for Architecture)
  • 1:30 p.m. — Crypt Crawl — Cathedral of St. John the Divine; tour
  • 1:30 p.m. — AIANY Architecture Boat Tour (Classic Harbor Line/AIA New York); tour
  • 1:30 p.m. — Prospect Park Tour: Rediscovering Vaux (Prospect Park Alliance); tour
  • 2 p.m. — Vertical Tour — Cathedral of St. John the Divine; tour
  • 2 p.m. — Founders Architecture Talk | “Creative Visions Inspired by the Landscape” (Grace Farms Foundation); talk
  • 2:30 p.m. — “Land for People: Undoing Spatial Apartheid in South African Cities” (Land Back in Cities Exhibition); talk
  • 3:30 p.m. — Crypt Crawl — Cathedral of St. John the Divine; tour
  • 4 p.m. — Make Your Own Pop-up Book with Kelli Anderson (Poster House); workshop
Sunday, Oct. 25
  • midnight — Where Newburgh Still Sings: An Exhibition of Sight and Sound (The Fullerton); special event
  • 7 a.m. — NYC Century Bike Tour (Transportation Alternatives); special event
  • 9 a.m. — AIANY Architecture Boat Tour (Classic Harbor Line/AIA New York); tour
  • 10 a.m. — Art Deco Icons of NYC (Untapped New York); tour
  • 10:30 a.m. — Walking Tour: “All-of-a-Kind Family” (Museum at Eldridge Street); tour
  • 11 a.m. — Exhibition Series — Threads: Anne Lindberg + H.L. Hix (‘T’ Space | Steven Myron Holl Foundation); special event
  • 11:30 a.m. — Guggenheim Museum Architecture Tour (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum); tour
  • noon — Building of the Day: Boerum Place (Center for Architecture)
  • 2 p.m. — Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Prospect Park Alliance); special event
  • 2 p.m. — Streamline Bronx: The Art Deco Gems of Mosholu Parkway (Art Deco Society of New York); tour
Monday, Oct. 26
  • 10:30 a.m. — AIANY Architecture Boat Tour (Classic Harbor Line/AIA New York); tour
  • 2 p.m. — Vertical Tour — Cathedral of St. John the Divine; tour
  • 2 p.m. — AIANY Architecture Boat Tour; tour
  • 3:30 p.m. — Learn about Engineering! (Brooklyn Public Library); family
  • 6 p.m. — Book Talk: “Intuition” by R. Buckminster Fuller (David Zwirner Books/Center for Architecture); talk
Tuesday, Oct. 27
  • 12:15 p.m. — AIANY Architecture Boat Tour (two departures) (Classic Harbor Line/AIA New York); tour
  • 1 p.m. — “The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and the Built Environment” (Indigenous Society of Architecture, Planning, and Design); talk
  • 2 p.m. — AIANY Architecture Boat Tour; tour
  • 6 p.m. — “Revisiting Gilded Age New York with Calvert Vaux” (General Society of Mechanics & Tradesmen of the City of New York); talk
  • 6:30 p.m. — 28th Annual Landscape Design Portfolios Lecture Series: Douglas Hoerr (New York Botanical Garden); talk
  • 6:30 p.m. — CBH Talk | “Haunted Brooklyn: Ghosts, Folklore, and the Stories We Tell” (Brooklyn Public Library); talk
  • 6:30 p.m. — “Amazonian Calendars: A Journey of Relational Knowledge” (Land Back in Cities Exhibition); talk
Wednesday, Oct. 28
  • 10:30 a.m. — Walking Tour: Sites, Sounds, and Synagogues of Greenwich Village (Museum at Eldridge Street); tour
  • 11:15 a.m. — AIANY Architecture Boat Tour (two departures) (Classic Harbor Line/AIA New York); tour
  • 1 p.m. — Building of the Day: Malabar Residences (Center for Architecture)
  • 2 p.m. — AIANY Architecture Boat Tour; tour
  • 5 p.m. — Judd Foundation Presents Guided Visit at 101 Spring Street (Judd Foundation); tour
  • 5 p.m. — Guided Tours of the Onera Foundation in New Canaan, CT (Onera Foundation); special event
  • 5:30 p.m. — Creating Dried Arrangements (Brooklyn Botanic Garden); workshop
  • 6 p.m. — Pumpkitecture! Architectural Pumpkin Carving Competition (Center for Architecture); special event
  • 6 p.m. — “Houdini Among the Villagers: The Magician’s Life and Afterlife in Greenwich Village” (Village Preservation); special event
Thursday, Oct. 29
  • 10:15 a.m. — AIANY Architecture Boat Tour (Classic Harbor Line/AIA New York); tour
  • 1:45 p.m. — AIANY Architecture Boat Tour; tour
  • 5 p.m. — Docent Tour: Lefor-Openo (Poster House); tour
  • 6 p.m. — Fashion Institute of Technology 2026 Lawrence Israel Prize Lecture by honoree Perkins&Will (Fashion Institute of Technology); talk
  • 6 p.m. — Next Frontiers Symposium Part II: Night Lab I | MATERIALS OF TOMORROW (1014 | Space for Ideas); special event
  • 6 p.m. — An Archival Séance: The Critical Record (Van Alen Institute); special event
  • 6 p.m. — “The Pulse Nightclub Memorial: Designing for Remembrance and Healing” (AIA New York); talk
Friday, Oct. 30
  • 9 a.m. — AIANY Architecture Boat Tour (Classic Harbor Line/AIA New York); tour
  • noon — Building of the Day: Vagelos Innovation Laboratories (Center for Architecture)
  • 1:30 p.m. — Crypt Crawl — Cathedral of St. John the Divine; tour
  • 1:45 p.m. — AIANY Architecture Boat Tour; tour
  • 2 p.m. — Vertical Tour — Cathedral of St. John the Divine; tour
  • 3:30 p.m. — Crypt Crawl — Cathedral of St. John the Divine; tour
  • 6 p.m. — Hereafter Hours (Green-Wood Cemetery); tour (also at 6:30, 7, 7:30, 8 and 8:30 p.m.)
  • 7 p.m. — Rats in the City: Costume Competition (Data Vandals/Center for Architecture); special event
  • 7 p.m. — 2026 IPA Fellows’ Halloween Party: Haunted [Block] House (Institute for Public Architecture); special event
Saturday, Oct. 31
  • 8:30 a.m. — AIANY Architecture Boat Tour (Classic Harbor Line/AIA New York); tour
  • 10:30 a.m. — Crypt Crawl — Cathedral of St. John the Divine; tour
  • 11:30 a.m. — Guggenheim Museum Architecture Tour (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum); tour
  • noon — Vertical Tour — Cathedral of St. John the Divine; tour
  • noon — Building of the Day: DSNY Brooklyn District 3 Garage (Center for Architecture)
  • 1:30 p.m. — Crypt Crawl — Cathedral of St. John the Divine; tour
  • 1:45 p.m. — AIANY Architecture Boat Tour; tour
  • 2 p.m. — Vertical Tour — Cathedral of St. John the Divine; tour
  • 3:30 p.m. — Crypt Crawl — Cathedral of St. John the Divine; tour

This Archtober 2026 schedule is subject to change, and many tours and workshops require advance registration. Check each organizer’s page before heading out, since popular events often sell out.