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.
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Street Lab hiring Youth Education Manager and Program Staff
Street Lab is hiring a Youth Education Manager to design, develop, and implement our growing portfolio of youth education programs. We’re also hiring Program Staff to run our pop-ups on the streets of New York City. Pop-up that changes New York—join us!
Street Lab portable reading rooms for NYC enter their 15th year of service
If you haven't encountered one of Street Lab's pop-up reading rooms over the past 15 years, keep an eye out in 2026. We're rolling out to even more locations—reach out to get involved. Make a place for reading.
2026 season is underway
Street Lab’s 2026 season is already underway, starting with a residency of ONE BIG TABLE and BUILD at a food pantry run by HEALTH for Youth Staten Island. Get in touch to partner with us this year. Pop-up that changes New York.
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.