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:
Students react to being chosen for a Street Lab school street!
Every week teachers at PS28 in the Mt. Hope neighborhood of the Bronx pick a few lucky classes to go outside on the school’s new Open Street created with Street Lab. This is the moment Mrs. Thomas’s class finds out they will join us outside...Learn more about Street...
On the street, moving forward in 2025
So far in 2025, we’ve already received 327 requests from communities that want Street Lab pop-ups and help creating Play Streets and School Streets in low-income neighborhoods. We’ve said yes to 167, lots more to come. Like many nonprofits, our funding has been cut,...
Join us for a benefit dinner to support Street Lab
Gather with us on April 30 for a benefit dinner to raise funds for Street Lab’s work in NYC. We’ll meet in a renovated firehouse and share paella and tapas at Street Lab’s One Big Table. Come explore a selection of Street Lab’s signature programs, meet co-founders...
We make Street Lab benches for other cities too
Street Lab benches are lightweight, stackable, and seat people of all ages. We deploy them 500+ times a year in NYC, and we fabricate the same design for other organizations and cities. Learn more and join our next fabrication run!
Run the 2025 NYC Marathon for Street Lab
Street Lab is an Official Charity Partner of the 2025 TCS New York City Marathon. Learn more and apply now to join our team of runners!
Cast a vote online and help Street Lab secure $75,000 for six Bronx School Streets
Street Lab is in the running for a grant that will help us temporarily close streets next to six Bronx schools and fill them with portable play equipment, seating, greenery, and more, for students, families, and the whole neighborhood. Your vote can make it happen!...