New Yorkers got a chance to be tourists in their own city this past weekend through the Open House New York Weekend Festival.

If you live in Williamsburg, you may have seen the colorful murals outside of the National Sawdust performing arts venue. Maybe you’ve wondered what's inside.

"It's that magical thing about you walk down the street in New York and you don’t have a sense of what you're walking by, " said Ras Dia, the deputy director of creative projects at National Sawdust. "But then you go inside and you understand that the murals are a kind of expression of what happens inside."

This past weekend New Yorkers got a chance to take a peek inside hundreds of unique sites around the city that are typically off-limits or off the radar as part of the Open House New York weekend, a city

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