This week, the Uni portable reading room landed at a NYC DOT Weekend Walk hosted by SOS South Bronx and Morrisania. People gathered around to look at ants and other specimens through microscopes and magnifying glasses at a portable science lab that we developed with...
Uni portable reading landed at the first of many NYC DOT Weekend Walks this season, this one hosted by the Westchester Business Improvement District. Despite a little April rain, we met some great folks and hope to return on a sunny day! Uni Project participation made...
Dear Friends of the Uni, We’re writing to tell you how things stand with the Uni Project as we celebrate our first five years, and to ask for your support. Please consider making a year-end donation to help us bring learning opportunities to NYC public space in...
When you schedule 145 outdoor deployments as we did this year, here’s the truth: sometimes it rains. Rainy day photos often get cut from the blog, but something caught my eye in these images of the Uni last weekend in Ridgewood. Despite intermittent rain and...
The Uni returned to one of our favorite parks at the invitation of the Washington Square Park Conservancy, creating a small reading room in the northwest corner of the park on four separate days in September. Our collection was augmented with a loan of books from...
Come find the Uni in two historic locations in Lower Manhattan as a part of a new initiative called “Shared Streets” that builds on NYCDOT’s popular car-free Summer Streets program on Saturday, August 13, 11am-4pm. Uni READ will be in front of Federal Hall, birthplace...
All summer long, we make a special effort to reach kids in high-need neighborhoods, bringing our mix of reading, drawing, solving, and building opportunities right to the places where kids gather. For the third year in row, we’re partnering with Harvest Home,...
In July and August the Uni lands at one of our favorite plazas, Putnam Triangle in Clinton Hill, hosted by our friends at Fulton Area Business Alliance. Every Wednesday 3-6pm we’re offering a portable reading room, drawing activities, and two of our best Uni...
On July 16th, the Uni transformed a block of 12th Avenue under the viaduct at a festival called “Under the Viaduct” organized by Savona Bailey-McClain and her West Harlem Art Fund. Check out the moss below!
