Latest News about Street Lab
Updates:
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 has taken from drawing board to...
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 whom have recently come onboard at Street Lab), the bench...
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 communities in Los Angeles, Chicago, Sacramento, Georgetown TX, Cass County MO, and Quincy MA.
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 may be as many as five Street Lab pop-ups going on across NYC—each intended...
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 business corridors in four neighborhoods: Elmhurst, Sunset Park, Bed Stuy, and Harlem. Teens are...
Street Lab will land at four Open Streets to support Car-Free Earth Day in NYC
This Saturday, April 23, we'll land on four separate Open Streets across NYC to make a point: we believe that the transformation of urban streets is critical for the health, safety, and well-being of New Yorkers, and this effort is tied to a global environmental...
Street Lab on Twitter:
We're so excited to have our friends at @streetlab back in the NW Corner of #WashingtonSquarePark for another fabulous season of WRITE NYC. This open air writing studio has all the different supplies you need to express yourself. #ThursdayAfternoon 2-5pm.
WRITE NYC - Washington Square Park
Join our friends at Street Lab in the NW Corner of Washington Square Park on Thursday September 22nd and 29th ...
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Pop-up that brings New Yorker together—we've got eight on the street this weekend. Thanks partners! @AAFederation @greenthumbgrows @VanDuzerCivic @sunnysideshines @community_thai @BridgeStreetDev @ChelseaMarketNY @ShahanaFromBK @NYC_DOT @NYC_SBS @NYSCArts @NYCulture
Our mural for Climate Justice on Montague was so freaking good! Thank you to all the kiddos who grabbed some chalk to help us, our cosponsors @artanddemocracy @MontagueBID @streetlab @thebhanow, Le Meraviglie Art school, and most of all to our teaching artist, Jordanna Gisser!
