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Our vision for NYC streets: a year-end letter from Street Lab’s co-founders
Dear friends and followers, We hope this year has been a step forward for you, despite all that still remains unsettled in our world. We’re writing to ask for your support as we commit ourselves to keep New York City on the rebound in 2022. For the past two years...
Street Lab wins a 2021 Best of the City Award from Time Out New York
Time Out New York's Best of the City Awards for 2021 are out today, and Street Lab made the list, recognized for our initiative 100 Activations for NYC, which brought a total of 165 activations to the streets of New York in just six months to support newly-created...
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. -...
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Here's a year-end letter from Street Lab's founders asking for your support as we head into 2022. Your donation goes directly to our work in low-income communities and helps support a vibrant, shared street life in all NYC neighborhoods. Thanks! https://www.streetlab.org/2021/12/13/our-vision-for-nyc-streets-year-end-letter-from-street-lab-co-founders/
To take pressure of indoor spaces in NYC this year, we started our pop-up season early, landing on @34_ave in February. 276 pop-ups later, we wrapped our season with a return visit yesterday. Thank you to our staff, volunteers, and community partners. See you in 2022!
Thank you @streetlab for coming out to @34_ave with your BUILD NYC program - it was a hit. See you soon on our #OpenStreets!
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Time Out New York’s Best of the City Awards for 2021 are out today, and Street Lab made the list! Thank you to our staff, volunteers, and community partners—this one's for you. Support from @NYC_DOT @CrimJusticeNYC @ConEdison #ArtsAlFresco
Sustainable Event Of The Year: 100 Activations for NYC @streetlab 🏆