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:
Pop-up helps make a new public space in Brooklyn
Since 2022, Street Lab has been activating the Beverley Road Open Street in Kensington, Brooklyn, to help the community explore the potential of pedestrian public space in a traffic-congested commercial area. Today, the road became a permanent pedestrian plaza, with a...
Equipment Library for Public Space puts Street Lab designs in the hands of our community partners
Street Lab’s Equipment Library for Public Space lets community groups in New York City borrow Street Lab’s custom-designed furniture and programming kits to activate neighborhood public spaces across the city. The first of its kind, the Library allows groups to copy...
Street Lab expanding use of sustainable materials in our designs
Street Lab is working to introduce new materials into our fabrication pipeline that are better for the environment. This month, working closely with our partner Jaywalk Studio and with support from NYC Small Business Services, we’re rolling out a new version of our...
Street Lab joins Park(ing) Day in Mott Haven
On September 15, Street Lab helped transform half a block of parking spots along E 138th Street in Mott Haven, Bronx, as part of “Park(ing) Day,” a participatory event where people across the world repurpose street parking into places for art, play, and community. We...
Creating Open Streets next to NYC Public Schools
Since Fall 2021, Street Lab has worked with seven public schools in the Bronx and Queens to pilot and launch Open Streets adjacent to the schools as part of our New Public Space initiative with the NYC Department of Transportation. Temporarily opening streets to...
September 11
For many who have been a part of Street Lab over the years—staff, board, partners, friends—September 11 brings difficult memories and emotions to the surface that we now understand will be with us forever. For the two of us (co-founders Leslie and Sam), the events of...