by Sam | Aug 23, 2013
Play Streets across New York City are transforming neighborhoods, providing new, car-free spaces for kids and families to gather. In Jamaica, Queens, residents have developed a play street adjacent to their already-thriving community garden, and kids are provided an...
by Sam | Aug 22, 2013
This summer we’re starting to develop a circuit through NYC neighborhoods so our pop-up reading room can begin to have a deeper impact. We’re relying on partnerships with organizations like Harvest Home—the city’s largest operator of farmers...
by Sam | Aug 17, 2013
The Play Street run by the Kingsbridge Heights Community Center is perched on a hill, in the heart of the neighborhood, in front of the familiar red doors of the community center. KHCC has woven together a mix—a Grow NYC Youth market, exercise, dance, yoga, lunch—to...
by Sam | Aug 16, 2013
The Uni returned to East Harlem to create a reading room at Harvest Home’s farmers’ market and play street. Uni volunteers Emily Jacobson and Katherine Plater were joined by Chris, intern at La Casa Azul Bookstore. Our library partner was NYPL Aguilar...
by Sam | Aug 15, 2013
As part of a run of ten Play Street deployments in partnership with Transportation Alternatives, the Uni returned for a second time to Lyman Place in the Bronx. There are fewer children passing through Lyman Place compared to some of our other locations, but we noted...