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...
One Big Table for NYC is on the street Our goal is to use pop up to bring New Yorkers together. And we aim to bring these ideas to the street rapidly. To both of these ends, with generous support from NYC Small Business Services, here is One Big Table, which our team...
Street Lab Teens taking the lead on the street Sixteen talented public high school students just wrapped up their work with us, closing a remarkable season of Street Lab Teens where they helped lead Street Lab activations across the city. They collaborated beautifully...
Telling the stories of NYC small businesses, on the street In 2022, we’ve been experimenting with new ways to support small businesses along New York City’s Open Streets. With support from NYC Small Business Services, we launched Streets Alive for Small Business,...
Getting designs onto NYC streets, learning from New Yorkers We’re prototyping a new pop-up street bench for NYC. And the best place to learn how we’re doing is the street, of course. Designed by our longtime partner Hannah Berkin-Harper with Anushritha Sunil (both of...
Street Lab increasing fabrication of our pop-up programming kits for other cities Street Lab just shipped out 18 pallets to six different cities, which means that pop-up reading room kits, drawing studio carts, benches, tables, and more are arriving right now to...
Making Thai tea together on Woodside Ave—a closer look at a Street Lab pop-up Yesterday Street Lab landed on the Woodside Avenue Open Street in Elmhurst with a pop-up kitchen where passersby learned how to make Thai Tea from a local shop owner. On any given day, there...
Street Lab Teens activating streets, supporting small businesses, strengthening NYC neighborhoods This summer, fifteen New York City public high school students accepted into our Street Lab Teen program are working with Street Lab to enliven Open Streets along small...
