After a bustling, month-long residency at Chelsea Market, our WRITE program served a few last patrons before heading out onto the streets for the rest of summer. WRITE is being developed with Therese Cox, a Heyman Center Public Humanities Fellow at Columbia University. Thanks to our host Chelsea Market for hosting DRAW and now WRITE in Chelsea Local. Scroll down to look back at blog posts from our deployments here during 2019.
Look back at more of our deployments at Chelsea Market:
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...
Apply for our Street Lab Teens 2022 program!
We’re excited to announce that we are now accepting applications for our Street Lab Teens 2022 program! Working closely with Street Lab staff, fifteen teens will explore the power of creativity to uplift communities by helping to develop and lead our Street Marker...
Street Lab residency at Chelsea Market is underway
We're back at Chelsea Market, continuing a partnership that activates outdoor dining areas with experiences that bring New Yorkers together. Last month, we shared DRAW, our pop-up drawing studio, featuring still life drawing of items from small businesses in the...
Street Lab in Times Square with NYC DOT
Yesterday we landed in Times Square with our PLAY and READ programs to help announce 2022 Car-Free Earth Day (April 23) in partnership with NYC Dept. of Transportation.
We’ll be expanding our longtime partnership with NYC DOT in 2022—stay tuned!