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 wraps up six monthly reading rooms at Fulton Street plazas in Brooklyn
September 5 marked the end of a run of monthly Uni reading rooms at two busy plazas in Brooklyn. Starting in April, we began popping-up at Putnam Triangle Plaza in Clinton Hill, and then at Fowler Square Plaza in Fort Greene, as part of a series of community events...
Uni reading room, Fowler Square, Ft. Greene, Brooklyn
Photos from a deployment in Ft. Greene, Brooklyn on Sep 5, 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.
Creating a reading room in Harlem with Reach Out and Read
Reach Out and Read is a nonprofit that partners with doctors to prescribe books and encourage families to read together. To help Reach Out and Read kick-off their annual Early Literacy Awareness Week, the Uni transformed an empty plaza in front of Heritage Health Care...
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...