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 rolling out curriculum about Open Streets at nine NYC public schools
This month, Street Lab begins work at nine schools, leading a series of workshops with students that introduce core concepts of urban planning and public space design and engage youth in the planning and activation of a street in front of their school. After...
Almost there! Make a tax-deductible contribution to Street Lab in 2025
Dear friends and followers, There’s still time to make a year-end, tax-deductible contribution to Street Lab! Thanks to those of you who have already done so. Support from individuals goes directly to our work in underserved NYC neighborhoods. Here’s a letter...
A mural and two new designs for a school in Brownsville, Brooklyn
This year, Street Lab created a mural and two new designs—Play Pods and Arena Benches—for Riverdale Ave Community School to use in their yard and on an Open Street we created together with partner Equity Design. More photos here.
Street Lab expands programs to involve youth in our work
Street Lab’s youth programs now include paid internships for NYC high school students who are helping to run Play Streets and School Streets alongside our team. We've also rolled out a new K-8 curriculum about urban planning and Open Streets.
Asking for your support
Dear friends and followers, Street Lab has been on the streets of New York City 557 times this year— a new record for us—bringing New Yorkers together and deploying new ideas in 105 public spaces across 54 neighborhoods. Pop-up cooling stations, play streets and...
Street Lab helps community activate 11-block Open Street in Crown Heights
Street Lab partnered with Bridge Street Development Corporation and NYC DOT to activate the Franklin Ave Open Street in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, this past Saturday, October 25, as part of New York City’s citywide Halloween and Harvest-themed “Trick-or-Streets”...