Latest News from Street Lab
A mid-year letter from Street Lab’s co-founders
Dear friends and followers, We’re writing to share our latest news and invite you to support our fastest growing initiative: creating vibrant, car-free space on streets next to New York City schools. After rolling out an expansion of School Streets work in early 2024,...
Street Lab receives the 2024 AARP Community Challenge Grant
Street Lab has been selected as one of the three New York City organizations to receive the competitive AARP Community Challenge Grant for 2024. The grant will support our work with our pop-up cooling station, OASIS, at three locations near senior centers. Thank you...
Join us on the street for OASIS launch
Join us on the street for the launch of OASIS, a pop-up cooling station that creates a place to gather outdoors and stay cool together. Meet the Street Lab team and friends around our One Big Table, and share your ideas for helping NYC neighborhoods adapt to a...
Warehouse Tour with Hannah
Come see our new warehouse space, meet Street Lab’s Design Lead Hannah Berkin-Harper, and learn about the role of design in our work. Tour and talk starts at 1:00 p.m. followed by a Q&A - snacks provided! RSVP appreciated but not required.
Kids Take the Streets
Opening up a street for play is a powerful way to get kids engaged in improving their neighborhood. Street Lab is piloting new Open Streets with five public schools in the Bronx and Brooklyn, and extraordinary results are already coming in—students are now leading the...
Meeting Small Businesses along Fulton Street
On Saturday, April 13, Street Lab popped up in front of four small businesses on Fulton Street in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, to offer another "Demo Day" in partnership with FAB Fulton (see photos of our first “Demo Day” on Fulton Street last year, here). Using our Meet a...