We are pleased to report that the Uni Project will begin a residency at the NYDesigns Incubation Program starting on June 1. We’ll migrate our office to a remarkable space in Queens with access to a fabrication shop, mentoring, and more. The move will help us...
Our 2018 season is getting underway, and you can help us add something special—drawing at street festivals. Here’s the backstory: neighborhood groups have begun asking permission from NYC Department of Transportation to close local streets on weekends so...
We have an Artist-in-Residence program here at Street Lab where we invite local artists to come on-site and inspire people participating in our DRAW program in parks, playgrounds, and other public spaces across NYC. This year we had the pleasure of hosting Luyi Wang,...
We’ve come to the end of our 2017 season—146 days of outdoor reading rooms, drawing stations, and other learning environments across NYC. We couldn’t have done it without your support. To keep things rolling into 2018, we’ve created a special fund...
Six years ago this morning, we launched the Uni portable reading room in Lower Manhattan on Sept 11, 2011. Leslie and I are grateful to everyone who has joined us along the way. Just last month, we quietly passed another milestone, setting up the Uni for the 500th...
The Uni is working flat out—visiting up to three NYC neighborhoods a day, and we love it. If you want to tag along, here are some ways to follow the Uni, at your preferred periodicity. Quarterly Try our quarterly email newsletter. Quarterly means only four emails a...
New Yorkers don’t just like parks, or even love them. We are parks. Without shared, green spaces, we could not continue this grand experiment in urban density. (Or live next door to the guy with such horrible taste in music.) Parks make New York and New Yorkers...
The Uni Project recently completed our 500th deployment in public space in New York City. (We’re celebrating with a group whale watch trip for all staff!) So, I wouldn’t call us a big nonprofit, but we aren’t exactly small anymore. As we grow,...
