Pop-up West Harlem!
Pop-Up West Harlem is an initiative offering pop-up reading rooms, drawing stations, and other cultural and educational amenities in the public spaces of West Harlem. With support from the West Harlem Development Corporation in 2019, Street Lab was able to pop-up ten times, creating new ways for residents to gather, enhancing the streetscape, and making neighborhood spaces more welcoming to all—especially children, women, and families. Scroll down to see more of our work in West Harlem across the years, and stay tuned for more to come in 2020.
2019 Highlights
Weekend Walk Street Festivals
Amsterdam Ave at 139th St
Pop-up urban nature exhibit
Johnny Hartman Plaza
W 143rd St
Weekend Walk Street Festivals
Hamilton Place at W142nd St
Pop-up drawing studios
Johnny Hartman Plaza
W 143rd St
Jacob H. Schiff Playground
Amsterdam Ave.
BUILD NYC
Building together
St. Nicholas Park
2019 Partners
Look back at our work in West Harlem over the years
Three open-air Learning Hubs launching across West Harlem
This week Street Lab launches three new Learning Hubs in partnership with HYPOTHEkids to host outdoor afterschool and offer other learning experiences in parks and plazas across West Harlem. Each location will feature Street Lab’s SOLVE puzzle station, homework help...
A special version of DRAW with The Drawing Center at Johnny Hartman Plaza
This past Wednesday we offered a special version of our DRAW NYC program in partnership with The Drawing Center at Johnny Hartman Plaza, a new pedestrian plaza in Hamilton Heights/West Harlem. Our host was The Brotherhood/Sister Sol (Bro/Sis), and dozens of Bro/Sis...
Uni Project wraps up Pop-up West Harlem!
This week, we wrapped a special series of pop-up installations in West Harlem that landed at Sheltering Arms Pool, Jacob H. Schiff Playground, and a street festival on Hamilton Place. Our work at Sheltering Arms Pool was in coordination with New York City...
Uni Project brings BUILD NYC to Harlem’s Sheltering Arms Pool
Here's a look back at a special series at Sheltering Arms Pool, where we brought our BUILD NYC program (interactive building stations, playful materials, design challenges) during July 2018. Our work at Sheltering Arms Pool was in support of the New York...
Uni Project returns to Jacob Schiff Playground with BUILD NYC
BUILD NYC is a pop-up installation that lets New Yorkers build together with LEGOs and more. Today, we set up on a plaza at the entrance of the park so people on Amsterdam Avenue could stop and join us. Today's event is part of our series called Pop-up...
EXPLORE NYC, featuring urban birds, lands at Jacob H. Schiff Playground
EXPLORE NYC is a hands-on science exhibit for all ages that brings the exploration of nature and science to the streets of NYC. Today's exhibit featured urban birds in partnership with Washington Square Park Eco Projects, and we set up at the entrance to...
Creating a place to draw on the streets of NYC with Blick Art Materials
Over the next several months, the Uni Project will work with Blick Art Materials to bring our open-air art studio (DRAW NYC) to community street festivals known as Weekend Walks. Today we were hosted by Hamilton Heights-West Harlem Community Preservation Organization...
Pop-up West Harlem!
Today, we launch a special series of pop-up installations serving West Harlem. First stop: Sheltering Arms Pool, where our BUILD NYC program (interactive building stations, playful materials, design challenges) will land every Friday through...
Uni goes “Under the Viaduct” in West Harlem
On July 16th, the Uni transformed a block of 12th Avenue under the viaduct at a festival called “Under the Viaduct” organized by Savona Bailey-McClain and her West Harlem Art Fund. Check out the moss below!
Uni Project embarks on 8-week initiative to reach kids at NYC play streets
Every year, in July and August, we turn our attention to a special effort: how to reach NYC kids with reading and learning opportunities outside of school, during summer. With start-up funding from the Shippy Foundation, we deploy the Uni portable reading room right...