Thursday, April 26 and Friday, April 27
Housingworks’ Design on a Dime
Housing Works will present New York City’s most popular interior design benefit event featuring more than 50 of the world’s top interior designers, who create unforgettable room vignettes with new merchandise, which is donated and then sold for 50 to 70 percent off retail pricing. This year, Design on a Dime’s founding chair, interior designer James Huniford, will be joined by “Good Morning America” anchor Lara Spencer (author of “I Brake for Yard Sales,” and interior designer).10-6. Free. Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 W. 18th St.
Saturday, April 27
New Architecture on Washington Square, Cooper Square, Bond Street and the Bowery
Explore new architecture on Washington Square, Cooper Square, Bond Street and the Bowery. Highlights include Fumihiko Maki’s new Astor Place office building, Morphosis’ Cooper Union academic building, new residential developments on Bond Street, SANAA’s New Museum, Norman Foster’s Sperone Westwater Gallery, new hotels, as well as older landmarks in these historic. neighborhoods. 10:30 am. $30. The tour will meet in front of the Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, and begin promptly.
Saturday, April 27
Research your House Workshop
Discover the amazing history of your Brooklyn house using BHS’ images, records and documents. Attendees will be introduced to library collections used in house and building research and will learn to piece together the social history of a Brooklyn home or block. Advanced ticket purchase recommended as the event will fill up. 2 pm. $50. The Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont St., Brooklyn Heights. Call 718-222-4111 for more information.
Wednesday, May 1
“A Developer’s Perspective on New York’s Future”
Scott C. Alper will speak on “A Developer’s Perspective on New York’s Future.” Alper oversees equity and structured investments for the Witkoff Group, which owns and operates over 10,000 residential units and over 20 million square feet of office space, mostly in New York. Noon. $80. Cornell Club, 6 E. 44th Street, Ivy Room. Call Aracelis Kuilan at 212-885-7239 to secure your reservation.
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