Activating an Open Street in East Harlem Today Street Lab went to East Harlem to join our friends at Uptown Grand Central to: activate an Open Street, provide a place for community, and encourage passersby to support local restaurants. We brought PLAY NYC, our program...
Have fun, stay safe—new signage for PLAY NYC Here’s a preview of new signage for PLAY NYC, which hits the streets tomorrow, starting a four week run across New York City. Designed for Street Lab by Alex Ching, these signs will help our staff and our community...
NYC Mayor highlights Street Lab and announces 2020 Play Streets Mayor Bill de Blasio highlighted Street Lab’s new no-touch obstacle course and announced the return of Play Streets this summer in a press conference. In partnership with the Mayor’s Office...
Adding reading to Open Streets in Red Hook Every Tuesday this summer, Red Hook Initiative is organizing activities for kids and families on the West 9th St Open Street in Brooklyn. We’re supporting this community effort by deploying PLAY NYC, our program to support...
Rolling out PLAY NYC, hands-free play for the street. Since the day we suspended our public programs in March, we’ve been working behind the scenes on how to return to the street and help New York’s public spaces bounce back. The time has come to get back out there....
A new, communal table for the streets of NYC When you offer programming on the streets of New York, inches can make all the difference. For many years we have struggled to find tables of different heights, so that we can make good on our promise to serve people of all...
Next Steps Dear friends and followers, We hope you are healthy and safe. Just six weeks ago, we were poised to launch our biggest season ever, with 157 deployments already scheduled across NYC. All of that is now on hold. The need for everyone to stay home has been a...
Street Lab at work in East Harlem since 2013 Here’s a look at one of the great neighborhoods where we’ve worked over the years. Since 2013, we’ve brought community-oriented, pop-up programming 77 times to 17 public spaces in East Harlem, and...
Dear Friends, A quick update about what we’ve been working on, and a thought about where we work—public space. In New York City, public space is often a way to get from point A to point B. Sidewalk means: keep walking, there’s someone right behind you...
