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:
Street Lab collaborating with NYC youth on NYCHA public spaces
Street Lab is out to support the next generation of designers and placemakers. This fall, we’re working with teens on the Office of Neighborhood Safety’s Youth Leadership Council to help them realize their vision for public spaces at five NYCHA developments across the...
Street Lab in the New York Times
Catch an article that features Street Lab’s work creating Open Streets with schools and highlights our partner PS28 in the Bronx.
Wrapping up a summer of play streets
We’re wrapping up our work at summer play streets across NYC this month, including two in Washington Heights and five in the Bronx. At Jennings St in the Bronx, we’ll soon celebrate ten years of supporting one neighborhood play street as it has grown into a...
Street Lab wraps up residency at Abolitionist Place
Street Lab just wrapped up a residency at Abolitionist Place, a new park in downtown Brooklyn which commemorates the Abolitionist Movement and its ties to Brooklyn. We brought a specially curated reading room, WNYC, and our PLAY program to support this new public...
Street Lab featured in Urban Omnibus
Leslie Davol and Hannah Berkin-Harper of Street Lab sat down with Editor-in-Chief Mariana Mogilevich to discuss Street Lab’s approach to design and activation of the streets of New York over the past decade. Read the article and see photos by Christopher Payne here.
Street Lab’s pop-up cooling station is on the street. Meet OASIS.
Street Lab’s newest pop-up OASIS creates an outdoor place to gather and cool down, right in the heart of NYC neighborhoods. Deploying right now on NYC Open Streets in heat-vulnerable areas. Pop-up that brings New Yorkers together, and cools them down. Check it out...