On Thursday, Oct 20 the Uni joined a city-wide celebration of Food Day called the “Big Apple Crunch” at La Marqueta on East 116th St. Thanks to our host and partner New Harlem East Merchants’ Association, with a special shout out to...
Last month, I asked for your help, via our email newsletter, to fund an extension of our season in Chinatown and Harlem. We have great staff running reading rooms in two deserving locations—why stop? You answered with a roar, and I’m pleased to announce that...
The Uni portable reading room landed in Fort Washington Park at a riverside festival to celebrate Manhattan’s only remaining lighthouse! Thanks to our partners NYC Department of Parks and Recreation. This deployment made possible with funding from Manhattan Borough...
Everyone working at the Uni Project wears a basket of hats. Examples include: fundraiser, librarian, truck driver, bookkeeper. This quarter, Leslie assigned the email newsletter to me! Here are the results. You can use the same link above to subscribe to our...
This has been a good, busy, familiar kind of weekend. Today we created two, simultaneous outdoor reading rooms along 125th Street with terrific partners in Harlem. Tomorrow, we go to Chinatown to launch a residency with our DRAW cart. Good stuff for New Yorkers to do...
The Uni has been at Playground 103 in East Harlem to reach kids and families living nearby at NYCHA East River Houses. Our work here is in partnership with NYC Parks in support of the Community Parks Initiative, and tomorrow is our final...
Recent events in Ozone Park have us thinking about the neighborhood. Here are photos of a beautiful evening on Liberty Ave in 2014 with our friends at Bangladeshi American Community Development and Youth Services Corporation. Taken from our original blog post here....
This weekend, NYC DOT invited the Uni Project to join a new public space initiative called Shared Streets in Lower Manhattan. For several hours, pedestrians, cyclists, and cars shared the historic streets and motorists were encouraged to drive 5 mph. (This is advanced...
In July and August the Uni has visited Putnam Triangle in Clinton Hill on Wednesdays, hosted by our friends at Fulton Area Business Alliance. Today’s photos below. Thanks so much to our staff Leah, Ester, Sofia and the great folks at FAB. Make a place for...
