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Telling the stories of NYC small businesses, on the street
In 2022, we’ve been experimenting with new ways to support small businesses along New York City’s Open Streets. With support from NYC Small Business Services, we launched Streets Alive for Small Business, which brings programming to these commercial corridors, offers...
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...
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Here's a year-end summary from Street Lab's founders asking for your support as we head into 2023. Your donation goes directly to our work in low-income communities and helps support a vibrant, shared street life in NYC neighborhoods. Thanks!
https://www.streetlab.org/2022/year-end/
Catch a @BronxnetTV video about our work helping communities start Open Streets next to schools, creating places for kids and families to gather in the neighborhood. https://www.streetlab.org/2022-open-streets-schools/ Supported by @NYC_DOT and thx to our Bronx partners PS 32, Equity Design, @BxHealthREACH
In 2022, sixteen public high school students helped lead Street Lab pop-ups across NYC, inspiring us, and reinforcing our belief that the young people of New York City are a source of hope. Read more about Street Lab Teens: https://www.streetlab.org/2022/08/20/street-lab-teens-taking-the-lead-on-the-street/
