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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...
Street Lab Teens taking the lead on the street
Sixteen talented public high school students just wrapped up their work with us, closing a remarkable season of Street Lab Teens where they helped lead Street Lab activations across the city. They collaborated beautifully with each other and our community partners,...
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...
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Mark your calendars for our first outside event of the spring: Demo Day on Fulton Street! We'll be out in #FortGreene with a special @streetlab cart on Sat., Mar. 25 from 11a - 2p to showcase demonstrations by local businesses!
Street Lab has been nominated for Best Activator by @OpenPlans at their upcoming Public Space Awards! Check out this new event and attend. Can't make it? Vote online: http://bit.ly/psawards2023
You love production, project management, and leading a team. And we’ve got a beautiful challenge made for just you. Street Lab is hiring a Program Lead who will oversee the successful execution of our 350+ pop-ups each year across NYC. Get in touch. http://www.streetlab.org/work-with-us/
