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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...
Mid-year update—dreams for our streets
Dear friends and followers, Here’s a quick update on Street Lab at the halfway mark of 2021. To date, Street Lab has already popped-up a record 95 times on the street, providing reading rooms, play streets, and drawing studios across the city. And 150+ more...
Drawing Comparisons—a photo-essay inspired by Helen Levitt
My favorite place in the Lower East Side is… – the boy eyed the chalk prompt written in the middle of Avenue B, “What about my favorite place to hang out with my friends? Can I write that?” “Sure,” I answered. He dropped to his knees. S – T – S, he chalked carefully....
Residency launched in Flushing Meadows Park with Queens Museum
We return to Corona to serve on of the hardest hit communities during the pandemic, creating an open-air art studio for families waiting in line for a food pantry hosted by the Queens Museum. The line can be long, and we’re there to help kids be engaged, happy, and...
Residency launched to support Avenue B Open Street, Lower East Side
We're out to support New York City neighborhoods that are hosting newly-created Open Streets, and here's an example of how we're doing it. We've committed our PLAY and Street Marker programs to land every Friday afternoon on the Avenue B Open Street (between E 12th...
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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 🏆