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 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”...
Visit Street Lab during Open House New York 2025
Visit Street Lab’s warehouse and learn how we use pop-up to improve lives, strengthen neighborhoods, and bring New Yorkers together. Meet Street Lab staff, test-drive our designs, and connect with other visitors who are passionate about the city and urban design....
Volunteer with Street Lab on Halloween
On Halloween, New York City kids should feel excited, happy, and safe on the street, out with friends, family, and neighbors. Open Streets are a beautiful way to bring that vision to life. Street Lab will partner with Bridge Street Development Corp to activate...
Street Lab creates summer jobs for youth at NYC Open Streets
At four Open Streets in Harlem and the Bronx, 15 youth from the High School for Teaching and the Professions worked with Street Lab and our community partners to offer free, STEAM-focused programming for children and people of all ages. These summer jobs were part of...