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:
How Street Lab works with NYC public schools to create Open Streets
Street Lab helps schools in low-income neighborhoods transform streets right outside the school doors into car-free pedestrian spaces that support the health, safety, and happiness of kids, families, and the whole neighborhood. Here’s the story of just one of the...
Street Lab helps teen residents of New York City public housing create their own pop-ups
This summer, 30 young residents of New York City public housing received Street Lab kits to help them create pop-ups that are transforming public spaces in and around NYCHA housing into places of community, creativity, and healing. The youth are members of the Mayor’s...
Street Lab designs on the streets of Seoul
This fall, the South Korean nonprofit Domansa brought Street Lab pop-ups to the streets of Seoul as part of a long-term vision of founder Heidi Cho to transform public space in her city. Domansa is an acronym that translates to "people who make up a city,” and the...
How Street Lab works with community partners to create new public spaces
Over the past decade, every one of the 2500+ pop-ups that Street Lab has completed in NYC has been at the request of a local partner. Here’s the story of just one of those 285+ community relationships—read about how we’re working with Decatur Block Association to...
Go behind the scenes at Street Lab during Open House New York 2024
Visit Street Lab’s warehouse and learn about our pop-up approach to transforming New York City public space with communities across the city. Meet Street Lab staff, test-drive new Street Lab programs and designs, and connect with other visitors who are passionate...
Street Lab’s OASIS pop-up reached 15 locations across NYC this summer
This summer we rolled out OASIS, a pop-up cooling station, to 15 locations, focusing on NYC neighborhoods with the highest Heat Vulnerability Index. Designs that cool us down, together. Thank you to AARP, ConEdison, and Street Lab’s individual donors for supporting...