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Meet Street Lab’s 2021 Artist in Residence
Our 2021 Artist in Residence is Sanika Phawde - an illustrator, cartoonist, and reportage artist based in New York and Mumbai who recently graduated from the School of Visual Arts with a Masters in Illustration as Visual Essay. This summer, Sanika traveled to seven...
Barnard students volunteer with Street Lab across NYC
Street Lab and Barnard College have teamed up to activate Open Streets in neighborhoods across New York City, with students leading our Street Marker program to create chalk murals with New Yorkers of all ages. Starting in East Harlem and Washington Heights, Barnard...
Launching new effort to bring NYC artists to the street
Today Street Lab launches a new effort to activate streets with the work of City Artist Corps grant recipients who have not been able to exhibit their work indoors due to COVID. We're creating open-air, pop-up galleries in restaurant dining sheds, inviting artists to...
Decades
Tomorrow morning, a decade ago in Lower Manhattan, we created our first pop-up reading room. We wanted to mark a day that forever changed us a decade before. And we were thinking of the future. Thank you to everyone who has joined with us across these years. Peace. -...
Street Lab Teens reflect on their summer experience
This past summer for the first time, a new program called Street Lab Teens offered ten New York City youth a chance to work with Street Lab to bring community-oriented programming to neighborhood public spaces across the city. Read on, as two Street Lab Teens share...
New Initiative launched: 100 Activations for NYC
Today, we're excited to announce: in the second half of 2021, Street Lab is adding 100 new deployments of Street Lab’s signature programs to newly-created Open Streets, NYCHA public housing developments, and other public spaces in the 33 of the hardest hit...
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Huge new report out from @RegionalPlan which argues for the end of free parking and (like @TransAlt and @OpenPlans before it) a complete reimagining of what streets are for (hint: people, not cars). Hat tip to @tkwrpa and crew:
SOLVED: City Must Reduce Carmaggedon By Eliminating Free Parking, Re-Imagining Public Space
The city must eliminate free parking, dramatically reduce roadway space for cars, and transform the Department of Tr...
buff.ly
This weekend I got to participate in park clean ups and daffodil planting in @CadmanPark and City Hall Park as part of the #ItsMyPark volunteer project. I also got to see @streetlab’s amazing public space programming in action. Thank you for inviting me & to all who participated.
New feature: book belts in our pop-up reading room carts keep things in place while on the move. Custom designs that we develop, refine, and deploy in NYC to activate public space we also fabricate for other organizations and cities. Learn more: https://www.streetlab.org/kits/
