After a bustling, month-long residency at Chelsea Market, our WRITE program served a few last patrons before heading out onto the streets for the rest of summer. WRITE is being developed with Therese Cox, a Heyman Center Public Humanities Fellow at Columbia University. Thanks to our host Chelsea Market for hosting DRAW and now WRITE in Chelsea Local. Scroll down to look back at blog posts from our deployments here during 2019.
Look back at more of our deployments at Chelsea Market:
Street Lab to expand Equipment Library for NYC in 2023
In 2023, Street Lab will triple the size of our Equipment Library for activating NYC streets—the city’s first—which we piloted with 11 neighborhood groups last year. With a new grant from NYC Dept. of Small Business Services and in-kind support from NYC Dept. of...
Hopeful about NYC: a year-end summary of Street Lab’s work in 2022
Dear friends and followers, We hope you are feeling a sense of possibility and hope about the year ahead. We’re writing to ask for your support as we commit ourselves to sharing our own sense of hope for New York City, out on the street in 2023. If you’ve followed...
Creating new Open Streets next to NYC schools
Catch a video on BronxNet about one of several Open Streets that Street Lab helped create next to NYC schools in 2022. Our goal is to help communities create new public spaces that support kids and families, right in the heart of neighborhoods. This work is part of...
New collaboration, Street Lab and WNYC
Everyone at Street Lab spends lots of time on the street. And one thing we love is hearing what’s on the minds of New Yorkers—thousands of them, in scores of neighborhoods. Now, thanks to a collaboration with WNYC, you can hear from these New Yorkers, too. WNYC has...
Activating streets to support NYC small businesses
This past Sunday, Street Lab tested two new programs supporting small businesses on the Open Street on East 115th Street in front of La Marqueta—One Big Table, featuring free food samples from market vendors, and Meet a Small Business, featuring a plant-potting...
Thank you Street Lab staff!
As we head into the home stretch of 2022, we’re reflecting on the contributions of the 37 people who make Street Lab possible! A big thank you to our staff: Abigail Aguilar-De Los Santos, Anaya Baptiste, Anita Chan, Anushritha Sunil, Arli Cornejal, Ashly López,...