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:
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...
Meet the 2025 NYC Marathon runners supporting Street Lab
Four runners in the 2025 TCS New York City Marathon are racing to raise funds for Street Lab’s work across NYC. Thanks Helena, Ben, Vann, and Annie!
Street Lab helps District 39 youth leaders connect with residents at Kensington Plaza
Street Lab worked with a group of eight teens from the 2024-2025 Youth Leadership Council for NYC Council District 39, helping them realize a plan for engaging community members in public space. Street Lab offered a training in our warehouse, and loaned the teens our...
New design for NYC streets: OASIS misting arches
We're rolling out a new element for Street Lab's OASIS program! The first prototype of our misting arches kit is headed to Jackson Heights for use by our partners at the 34th Avenue Open Street Coalition. The kit deploys in ten minutes, connects to a standard...