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.
When I saw what you created on our street, it was exactly what I dreamed of, but never imagined possible. Somehow you created the dream in my head of what the city can be.
Street Lab transforms each host site, offering visitors a special urban experience—enjoyable, educational, simple, direct, and out-of-the-ordinary.
Right now,
Street Lab is:
- Piloting new public spaces in partnership with NYC DOT and local communities
- Activating Open Streets on commerical corridors in all five boroughs to support small businesses
- Unveiling new programs and designs, some with Street Lab Teens
- Expanding the roll-out of our new cargo bike delivery system
Street Lab wins a 2021 Best of the City Award.
Since 2011, we’ve deployed our programs 1350+ times in 315 locations across NYC.
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Here's a pop-up reading room kit that we made for our friends at Côte Saint-Luc Public Library in Quebec—they're using it to bring reading to places where people gather, like the park. Bravo @csllibrary! If we can help your city do the same, reach out: http://www.streetlab.org/kits
Pop-up can bring New Yorkers together. This weekend, we're doing it in 6 neighborhoods in Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and the Bronx. Thanks partners @AAFederation @sayanyc @NYC_DOT @CrimJusticeNYC @PreventCrimeNY @brooklynchamber @ConEdison @ChelseaMarketNY @ShahanaFromBK
Thank you to our supporters!
Awards & Press
Winner 2014 Boston Public Space Invitational.
Winner 2013 Innovations in Reading Prize.
Featured US Pavilion 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale