Street Lab at Chelsea Market
Meatpacking District, Manhattan
2019 – Present
Street Lab has been collaborating with Chelsea Market since 2019, popping up 175+ times with programs that create a place to gather and bring together neighborhood residents and visitors from around the world. In addition to DRAW, WRITE, BUILD, READ and EXPLORE, we’ve also debuted programs at Chelsea Market, testing new ideas for public space. During the height of the pandemic, the partnership allowed Street Lab to transform heated dining areas on 10th Avenue and 16th St into safe, outdoor gathering spaces for the community, featuring Homework Hubs for NYC students, a collaboration with the Chelsea Symphony, and a series of pop-up exhibitions for 30 NYC artists supported by the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs. We’re looking forward to finding new ways to bring people together at the Market in the years ahead!
Our Host Partner
Located in New York City’s Meatpacking District, Chelsea Market hosts 6 million national and international visitors annually while also serving as a destination for neighborhood residents.
Look back at our work at Chelsea Market
New community partnership with Chelsea Market
Since 2019, Street Lab has activated public areas of Chelsea Market with programs that bring the neighborhood together and connect people from all walks of life. Check out a new page that describes what we're creating at the market in 2021.
BUILD NYC comes inside for the winter—join us at Chelsea Market
BUILD NYC lets New Yorkers build together on the street, and now we're bringing it inside to Chelsea Market for winter. Join us every Sunday through 1/5 from 11am-2pm. (Closed 12/22.) All ages and always free. Build. Together. NYC. Thanks to our host Chelsea...
Highlights from DRAW and WRITE at Chelsea Market in 2019
Here are highlights from a three-month residency of DRAW and a month-long residency of WRITE at Chelsea Market. DRAW is a portable art studio that travels the city and lets New Yorkers draw together. WRITE is a new program that lets New Yorkers write, type, scrawl a...
WRITE wraps up a month-long residency at Chelsea Market
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...
WRITE together in Chelsea Market
Our newest program WRITE continues a month-long residency at Chelsea Market—join us every Sunday from 11am-2pm! WRITE is being developed with Therese Cox, a Heyman Center Public Humanities Fellow at Columbia University. Thanks to our host Chelsea Market.[ngg...
Creating a place for writing—our residency at Chelsea Market continues
Our newest program WRITE is in a month-long residency at Chelsea Market—join us every Sunday from 11am-2pm! WRITE is being developed in partnership with Therese Cox, a Heyman Center Public Humanities Fellow at Columbia University. Thanks to Chelsea Market for hosting...
