Keeping up with the Uni

Keeping up with the Uni

The Uni is working flat out—visiting up to three NYC neighborhoods a day, and we love it. If you want to tag along, here are some ways to follow the Uni, at your preferred periodicity. Quarterly Try our quarterly email newsletter. Quarterly means only four emails a...
Please support the Uni in NYC Parks

Please support the Uni in NYC Parks

New Yorkers don’t just like parks, or even love them. We are parks. Without shared, green spaces, we could not continue this grand experiment in urban density. (Or live next door to the guy with such horrible taste in music.) Parks make New York and New Yorkers...
The Uni is fighting climate change

The Uni is fighting climate change

The Uni Project recently completed our 500th deployment in public space in New York City. (We’re celebrating with a group whale watch trip for all staff!) So, I wouldn’t call us a big nonprofit, but we aren’t exactly small anymore. As we grow,...
Street Science: the Uni EXPLORE cart on 125th Street in Harlem

Street Science: the Uni EXPLORE cart on 125th Street in Harlem

This afternoon, the Uni was hanging out on 125th St at Uptown Grand Central with old friends New Harlem East Merchants Association (our host) and new friends HYPOTHEkids (partners in our new EXPLORE cart, an open-air exploration of science). We wheeled into...
Help the Uni, Help NYC

Help the Uni, Help NYC

Here’s a copy of our quarterly email newsletter (subscribe) that hit inboxes today:[hr] Dear Friends of the Uni, Sam here. It’s my turn to write our quarterly newsletter again. Let me get right to it: I’m writing to ask for your help. This summer,...
Uni returns to Red Hook!

Uni returns to Red Hook!

Five years ago, the Uni Project brought our original Uni reading room—a six foot tower of books—to Red Hook as part of Sandy relief. This weekend, Leslie returned with an offspring of the tower, one of our reading room carts that now circulate the city. The specific...
Uni back in Brooklyn, brings the reading room to Bed Stuy

Uni back in Brooklyn, brings the reading room to Bed Stuy

The Uni portable reading room landed on Dekalb Ave (literally) for another great NYC DOT Weekend Walk, hosted by Save Our Streets Bed-Stuy. Reading and hanging out toether, where there are usually cars. I’ll take more of that please, NYC. Uni Project...