Latest News from Street Lab
An update from Street Lab’s co-founders with a look ahead to fall and beyond
Dear friends and followers, We've got some photos below showing exciting work underway this year, and here’s a quick take on how we got here and where we’re headed. Our first year on the ground we did 12 pop-ups, many of them with the help of volunteers who are still...
Street Lab collaborating with NYC youth on NYCHA public spaces
Street Lab is out to support the next generation of designers and placemakers. This fall, we’re working with teens on the Office of Neighborhood Safety’s Youth Leadership Council to help them realize their vision for public spaces at five NYCHA developments across the...
Street Lab in the New York Times
Catch an article that features Street Lab’s work creating Open Streets with schools and highlights our partner PS28 in the Bronx.
Wrapping up a summer of play streets
We’re wrapping up our work at summer play streets across NYC this month, including two in Washington Heights and five in the Bronx. At Jennings St in the Bronx, we’ll soon celebrate ten years of supporting one neighborhood play street as it has grown into a...
Street Lab wraps up residency at Abolitionist Place
Street Lab just wrapped up a residency at Abolitionist Place, a new park in downtown Brooklyn which commemorates the Abolitionist Movement and its ties to Brooklyn. We brought a specially curated reading room, WNYC, and our PLAY program to support this new public...
Street Lab featured in Urban Omnibus
Leslie Davol and Hannah Berkin-Harper of Street Lab sat down with Editor-in-Chief Mariana Mogilevich to discuss Street Lab’s approach to design and activation of the streets of New York over the past decade. Read the article and see photos by Christopher Payne here.