Creating a safe place to celebrate Halloween on the street in the Bronx On Halloween, Street Lab hosted a special Open Streets event on Jackson Avenue in the Bronx as part of the NYC Dept. of Transportation’s “Trick-or-Streets” celebration, which created nearly...
Pop-up helps make a new public space in Brooklyn Since 2022, Street Lab has been activating the Beverley Road Open Street in Kensington, Brooklyn, to help the community explore the potential of pedestrian public space in a traffic-congested commercial area. Today, the...
Creating Open Streets next to NYC Public Schools Since Fall 2021, Street Lab has worked with seven public schools in the Bronx and Queens to pilot and launch Open Streets adjacent to the schools as part of our New Public Space initiative with the NYC Department of...
Street Lab Teens 2023 This summer, eleven public high school students participated in Street Lab’s third annual Teens Program, helping to activate Open Streets and other public spaces all across New York City. Over eight weeks, the students joined Street Lab on our...
Students at PS32 produce a video about Open Streets title="PS 32 Open Streets"> Catch a short video about the Open Street on Beaumont Ave that Street Lab is creating with PS 32 in the Bronx, which was filmed and produced by the students at PS 32 in collaboration with...
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...
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...
