Street Lab is a nonprofit that creates and shares extraordinary programs for public space across New York City—pop-up reading rooms, open-air drawing studios, and more. We do this work in order to improve the urban environment, strengthen neighborhoods, and bring New Yorkers together. We also send kits around the world so that others can do the same.

In the Lab… the latest:

  • Our quarterly email update just went out to our followers.
  • Catch a new video about our work supporting NYC Open Streets.
  • New programs for 2021 coming soon.

Thanks for making a year-end donation to help expand our work in 2021. Read a letter from Street Lab co-founders asking for your support.

Since 2011, we’ve deployed our programs over 800 times in 229 locations across NYC.

Heat map of Street Lab deployments in NYC

Learn about where we work…

 

Street Lab transforms each host site, offering visitors a special urban experience—enjoyable, educational, simple, direct, and out-of-the-ordinary.

Betty Chen

NYC Planning Commission

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Thank you to our supporters!

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Awards & Press

Winner 2014 Mayor of Boston’s Public Space Invitational.

National Book FoundationWinner 2013 Innovations in Reading Prize.

Featured US Pavilion 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale