Where we work
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Deployments since 2011. Larger dots indicate more visits.
We go to NYC Plazas...
...and NYC Street Festivals
...and NYC Play Streets
...and NYC Parks & Playgrounds
Everywhere we go is by request from local groups or city agencies and we prioritize underserved locations. Since 2011, we’ve offered over 950 days of programming in 250 public spaces across New York City.
We also send kits around the world so that other cities can copy our model. So far, we’ve created more than 50 programming kits for libraries, agencies, and organizations across the globe.
Explore deployments on our blog:
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...