Nov 24, 2014
The Uni portable reading room is designed to share books, promote learning, and improve public space. That final criteria is why we love deployments like our visit yesterday to the corner of Ocean and Parkside Avenues in Brooklyn. We joined a one-day event organized...
Nov 19, 2014
This morning, The Uni Project teamed up with some wonderful friends of ours, Daniel Handler, Neil Gaiman, and the folks at National Book Foundation, to try to give New Yorkers…hypothermia! Below are photos from our coldest reading room yet. In fact, it was...
Nov 7, 2014
Thanks to a generous donation from Penguin Random House, The Uni Project was able to add ten reading room deployments to our 2014 season. The company also pledged 500 books to our collection—a terrific resource that we will continue to draw upon in 2015. Thank you to...
Nov 3, 2014
The Uni met several hundred kids and a marching band in Brownsville this Halloween. We went to Brooklyn to join a festival organized by Halloween 2013.
Oct 30, 2014
Photos Archive: Governors Island, New York Harbor. Summer 2014 For the second year in a row, the Uni Project partnered with the Brooklyn Public Library, the Queens Library, and the New York Public Library to offer an open-air reading room on Governors Island....
Oct 29, 2014
This summer, we created regular pop-up reading rooms at six different play streets in Harlem, the Bronx, and Brooklyn. Play streets are just what they sound like—streets closed to traffic so kids can play and get physical exercise. In NYC, the Uni Project is...
Oct 28, 2014
This summer, illustrator and Parsons student Tiffany Lin was our artist-in-residence. We first met Tiffany as part of a class that created handmade books for the Uni on Governors’ Island. Tiffany made a scrolling book called LOOK UP! that told the story of a girl...
Oct 21, 2014
The Uni enjoyed a summer-long residency in Pier Kids events. The residency was made possible by a new reading room kit funded by long-time Uni Project supporters, Leaves of Grass Fund Thank you to Uni Librarians Emily Jacobson and Stephanie Yee for helping us manage...
Oct 16, 2014
The Uni is about more than books—it’s about creating a place where people can gather around books. When we roll out the reading room, people start to acknowledge each other, connect. Sometimes they even read poetry out loud. You don’t see many headphones...
