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.
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Street Lab is launching new work in 2022—here’s a preview
This year, we began our outdoor work earlier than ever, landing at Avenue B in February and Chinatown and Chelsea in March. Find us tomorrow in Times Square, where we’ll land with our PLAY and READ programs to help announce 2022 Car-Free Earth Day in partnership with...
Our vision for NYC streets: a year-end letter from Street Lab’s co-founders
Dear friends and followers, We hope this year has been a step forward for you, despite all that still remains unsettled in our world. We’re writing to ask for your support as we commit ourselves to keep New York City on the rebound in 2022. For the past two years...
Street Lab wins a 2021 Best of the City Award from Time Out New York
Time Out New York's Best of the City Awards for 2021 are out today, and Street Lab made the list, recognized for our initiative 100 Activations for NYC, which brought a total of 165 activations to the streets of New York in just six months to support newly-created...
Street Lab Teens 2021 Recap
In 2021, Street Lab launched Street Lab Teens–a program for New York City public high school students to shape public space and impact local communities. Working alongside staff and community partners, Street Lab Teens help develop and implement the public’s...
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...