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:
Residency launched in Flushing Meadows Park with Queens Museum
We return to Corona to serve on of the hardest hit communities during the pandemic, creating an open-air art studio for families waiting in line for a food pantry hosted by the Queens Museum. The line can be long, and we’re there to help kids be engaged, happy, and...
Residency launched to support Avenue B Open Street, Lower East Side
We're out to support New York City neighborhoods that are hosting newly-created Open Streets, and here's an example of how we're doing it. We've committed our PLAY and Street Marker programs to land every Friday afternoon on the Avenue B Open Street (between E 12th...
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...
Chelsea Symphony on the street—Brass!
Today we brought musicians from The Chelsea Symphony to the street once again, this time five members of the brass section, who landed at Chelsea Market’s curbside dining area, transformed into a performance space. These events are part of Street Lab’s efforts to...
Homework Hubs return to Chelsea!
As part of our COVID response, we launched pop-up, open-air meeting places for NYC students called Homework Hubs. Starting next week, we'll return to the heated, outdoor dining area at Chelsea Market to make a place for learning, safely. Students of all ages can meet...
Chelsea Symphony on the street!
Today we launched our effort to bring musicians from The Chelsea Symphony to the street, starting with percussionist Michael Blancaflor, who landed at Chelsea Market’s curbside dining area, transformed into a performance space. And we made shakers together, so...