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:
The Uni turns five
This has been a good, busy, familiar kind of weekend. Today we created two, simultaneous outdoor reading rooms along 125th Street with terrific partners in Harlem. Tomorrow, we go to Chinatown to launch a residency with our DRAW cart. Good stuff for New Yorkers to do...
Uni at Playground 103 in East Harlem, series wraps tomorrow
The Uni has been at Playground 103 in East Harlem to reach kids and families living nearby at NYCHA East River Houses. Our work here is in partnership with NYC Parks in support of the Community Parks Initiative, and tomorrow is our final...
Uni Project thinking about Ozone Park
Recent events in Ozone Park have us thinking about the neighborhood. Here are photos of a beautiful evening on Liberty Ave in 2014 with our friends at Bangladeshi American Community Development and Youth Services Corporation. Taken from our original blog post here....
A reading room on Wall Street
This weekend, NYC DOT invited the Uni Project to join a new public space initiative called Shared Streets in Lower Manhattan. For several hours, pedestrians, cyclists, and cars shared the historic streets and motorists were encouraged to drive 5 mph. (This is advanced...
Uni reading room at Putnam Triangle today
In July and August the Uni has visited Putnam Triangle in Clinton Hill on Wednesdays, hosted by our friends at Fulton Area Business Alliance. Today's photos below. Thanks so much to our staff Leah, Ester, Sofia and the great folks at FAB. Make a place for...
How the Uni works at play streets in the Bronx
Today, we brought the Uni to a great play street in the Bronx run by Caldwell Programs. As I promised everyone last week, I brought along some new math puzzles today. Learn more about our ongoing effort at play...