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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Please support the Uni in NYC Parks
New Yorkers don't just like parks, or even love them. We are parks. Without shared, green spaces, we could not continue this grand experiment in urban density. (Or live next door to the guy with such horrible taste in music.) Parks make New York and New Yorkers...
The Uni is fighting climate change
The Uni Project recently completed our 500th deployment in public space in New York City. (We're celebrating with a group whale watch trip for all staff!) So, I wouldn't call us a big nonprofit, but we aren't exactly small anymore. As we grow, Leslie and I feel...
Street Science: the Uni EXPLORE cart on 125th Street in Harlem
This afternoon, the Uni was hanging out on 125th St at Uptown Grand Central with old friends New Harlem East Merchants Association (our host) and new friends HYPOTHEkids (partners in our new EXPLORE cart, an open-air exploration of science). We wheeled into...
Help the Uni, Help NYC
Here's a copy of our quarterly email newsletter (subscribe) that hit inboxes today:[hr] Dear Friends of the Uni, Sam here. It's my turn to write our quarterly newsletter again. Let me get right to it: I'm writing to ask for your help. This summer, for the first time...
Uni reading room in Lower Manhattan at Washington Market Park
The Uni visited Washington Market Park this weekend! Thanks to our host Friends of Washington Market Park and partner Green Below 14.
Uni returns to Red Hook!
Five years ago, the Uni Project brought our original Uni reading room—a six foot tower of books—to Red Hook as part of Sandy relief. This weekend, Leslie returned with an offspring of the tower, one of our reading room carts that now circulate the city. The specific...