Behind the bustle of commerce in Lower Manhattan’s Chinatown is an immigrant community with residents less likely to have completed high school and more likely to be in poverty than the average New Yorker. Chinatown residents have also been chronically...
Today, we landed in Chinatown with three of our favorite programs, READ, DRAW, and EXPLORE, at a NYC DOT Weekend Walk, hosted by the Two Bridges Neighborhood Council. Passersby enjoyed a curated collection of books at our pop-up reading room. They drew at our open-air...
BUILD NYC is our new program that offers the public a way to build together and explore challenges in architecture, design, engineering and construction. On May 20, we brought BUILD to Chinatown for the Asian Pacific American Weekend Walk hosted by Chinatown...
Over the past few months, we’ve been working on a new installation that lets New Yorkers learn about the city’s architecture, engineering, and construction, while building together with LEGO, Magna-Tiles, Imagination Playground Blocks, and more. Despite...
On Sunday, April 15 we offered our READ and EXPLORE programs at an Earth Day Weekend Walk celebration in Chinatown—our first event of the 2018 season. Thanks to our host Chinatown Partnership and our partner NYC Department of Transportation! Thank you also to our...
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,...
The Uni Project was back in Chinatown’s Sara D. Roosevelt Park this weekend with our EXPLORE cart created in partnership with the Harlem-based HYPOTHEkids. The portable science lab and biological drawing activity is a runaway hit in this location. Made possible...
The Uni Project returned to Chinatown’s Sara D. Roosevelt Park this weekend and brought something new: an EXPLORE cart created in partnership with the Harlem-based HYPOTHEkids for their STEAM the Streets initiative. People gathered around microscopes and...
Last month, I asked for your help, via our email newsletter, to fund an extension of our season in Chinatown and Harlem. We have great staff running reading rooms in two deserving locations—why stop? You answered with a roar, and I’m pleased to announce that...