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 featured in Urban Omnibus
Leslie Davol and Hannah Berkin-Harper of Street Lab sat down with Editor-in-Chief Mariana Mogilevich to discuss Street Lab’s approach to design and activation of the streets of New York over the past decade. Read the article and see photos by Christopher Payne here.
Street Lab’s pop-up cooling station is on the street. Meet OASIS.
Street Lab’s newest pop-up OASIS creates an outdoor place to gather and cool down, right in the heart of NYC neighborhoods. Deploying right now on NYC Open Streets in heat-vulnerable areas. Pop-up that brings New Yorkers together, and cools them down. Check it out...
A mid-year letter from Street Lab’s co-founders
Dear friends and followers, We’re writing to share our latest news and invite you to support our fastest growing initiative: creating vibrant, car-free space on streets next to New York City schools. After rolling out an expansion of School Streets work in early 2024,...
Street Lab receives the 2024 AARP Community Challenge Grant
Street Lab has been selected as one of the three New York City organizations to receive the competitive AARP Community Challenge Grant for 2024. The grant will support our work with our pop-up cooling station, OASIS, at three locations near senior centers. Thank you...
Join us on the street for OASIS launch
Join us on the street for the launch of OASIS, a pop-up cooling station that creates a place to gather outdoors and stay cool together. Meet the Street Lab team and friends around our One Big Table, and share your ideas for helping NYC neighborhoods adapt to a...
Warehouse Tour with Hannah
Come see our new warehouse space, meet Street Lab’s Design Lead Hannah Berkin-Harper, and learn about the role of design in our work. Tour and talk starts at 1:00 p.m. followed by a Q&A - snacks provided! RSVP appreciated but not required.