Street Lab to expand Equipment Library for NYC in 2023 In 2023, Street Lab will triple the size of our Equipment Library for activating NYC streets—the city’s first—which we piloted with 11 neighborhood groups last year. With a new grant from NYC Dept. of Small...
Hopeful about NYC: a year-end summary of Street Lab’s work in 2022 Dear friends and followers, We hope you are feeling a sense of possibility and hope about the year ahead. We’re writing to ask for your support as we commit ourselves to sharing our own sense of...
New collaboration, Street Lab and WNYC Everyone at Street Lab spends lots of time on the street. And one thing we love is hearing what’s on the minds of New Yorkers—thousands of them, in scores of neighborhoods. Now, thanks to a collaboration with WNYC, you can hear...
Activating Open Streets to support NYC small businesses This past Sunday, Street Lab tested two new programs supporting small businesses on the Open Street on East 115th Street in front of La Marqueta—One Big Table, featuring free food samples from market vendors, and...
Thank you Street Lab staff! As we head into the home stretch of 2022, we’re reflecting on the contributions of the 37 people who make Street Lab possible! A big thank you to our staff: Abigail Aguilar-De Los Santos, Anaya Baptiste, Anita Chan, Anushritha Sunil, Arli...
Dear Friends of the Uni, We’re writing with news of the Uni Project and to ask for your support. In 2018, we blew past a milestone—600 deployments in public space—and our work continues to expand beyond portable reading rooms. Through it all, we try to stay focused on...
On four Thursdays in September and October, we returned to one of our favorite places in New York City—the Northwest corner of Washington Square Park, right under the English Elm that is one of the city’s oldest trees. This year, in addition to a curated collection of...
The Uni Project and NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) have teamed up so that thousands of New Yorkers can enjoy Uni reading rooms that pop up at “Weekend Walks” across New York City. The initiative is supported by funding from the Charles H. Revson...
Every Saturday in May, the Uni DRAW cart will transformed into a field station of the Department of Tropical Research at the Central Park Zoo, where visitors can draw from specimens and learn how ecologist William Beebe and his team of scientists worked with...
