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:
Uni returns to Ozone Park and creates evening reading room
On Thursday, August 7, we returned to a plaza that straddles the border of Queens and Brooklyn to create an evening reading room with the Bangladeshi American Community Development and Youth Services Corporation. We augmented our collection with Bengali children's...
Uni reading room, Putnam Triangle Plaza, Brooklyn
Photos from deployment of the Uni reading room in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn on Aug 8, 2014. Our host and partner was the Fulton Area Business Alliance. Made possible in part by a grant from Tribeca Pediatrics’ We Care for Your Kids Foundation.
Uni reading room at NYC DOT Summer Streets
For the first time, the Uni joined Summer Streets, NYC DOT's annual car-free celebration when nearly seven miles of NYC's streets are opened for people to play, run, walk and bike. The Uni created a place to gather around books at a "rest stop" on the route at Foley...
The Uni reading room is packed on Corona Plaza
On July 27, the Uni created an open-air reading room on Corona Plaza—our third and final visit this year. In 2014, we continued our longstanding partnership with Queens Museum as they brought community-oriented programs to this emerging public space. Our work on this...
Uni transforms a new plaza under the elevated in Sunnyside
On July 26, the Uni transformed the new Bliss Plaza under the 7 train in Sunnyside, Queens, into a place to gather, read, and meet neighbors. Our host was the local BID, Sunnyside Shines, and we were invited as part of Sunnyside Summer Strolls celebrating the...
Mayor Martin J. Walsh helps launch Uni for Boston
On Saturday, July 19, we were honored to launch a Uni portable reading room for Boston with help from Mayor Martin J. Walsh. The location was downtown's Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, where this Uni will remain, popping up at different locations along the park all...