Transforming streets for kids, PLAY at 34th Ave Open Street, Queens We’re starting our outdoor season several months early, creating a residency for our PLAY program in support of 34th Avenue Open Street in Jackson Heights, Queens. PLAY offers safe, hands-free...
BUILD returns to Chelsea Market, outdoors! BUILD brings interactive building stations with playful materials and challenges to the street. And now, New Yorkers of all ages can gather and build together, in all weather, at the heated, curbside dining areas along West...
Homework Hub in Chinatown, supporting NYC Students As part of our COVID response in 2020, we launched pop-up, open-air meeting places for NYC students called Homework Hubs. Thanks to support from the Paul and Phoebe Bock Activism Fund and individuals who made...
Activating an Open Street in East Harlem Today Street Lab went to East Harlem to join our friends at Uptown Grand Central to: activate an Open Street, provide a place for community, and encourage passersby to support local restaurants. We brought PLAY NYC, our program...
Adding reading to Open Streets in Red Hook Every Tuesday this summer, Red Hook Initiative is organizing activities for kids and families on the West 9th St Open Street in Brooklyn. We’re supporting this community effort by deploying PLAY NYC, our program to support...
BUILD NYC lets New Yorkers build together on the street, and now we’re bringing it inside to Chelsea Market for winter. Join us every Sunday through 1/5 from 11am-2pm. (Closed 12/22.) All ages and always free. Build. Together. NYC. Thanks to our host Chelsea...
On four Thursday afternoons in this fall (September 19 and 26, and October 3 and 10), Street Lab set up its portable, open-air, drawing studio in the northwest corner of Washington Square Park. The program featured fine art drawing materials, art books, as well as...
This past Wednesday we offered a special version of our DRAW NYC program in partnership with The Drawing Center at Johnny Hartman Plaza, a new pedestrian plaza in Hamilton Heights/West Harlem. Our host was The Brotherhood/Sister Sol (Bro/Sis), and dozens of Bro/Sis...
Many NYC kids who live in low-income neighborhoods report that there is little to do over the summer, especially when camps and cultural institutions are out of reach. To help fix that, for six weeks this summer, we created a safe place to hang out and learn next to...
