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Below are a few snapshots of our work in New York City since 2011. To see our latest photos, check out our blog or social media.
2018 Highlights
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2011-2013
Here are some of our favorite photo galleries from 2011-2013:
Uni reading room helps residents envision new plaza in Brooklyn
The Uni portable reading room is designed to share books, promote learning, and improve public space. That final criteria is why we love deployments like our visit yesterday to the corner of Ocean and Parkside Avenues in Brooklyn. We joined a one-day event organized...
Daniel Handler and Neil Gaiman face off in the Uni Reading Room with National Book Foundation
This morning, The Uni Project teamed up with some wonderful friends of ours, Daniel Handler, Neil Gaiman, and the folks at National Book Foundation, to try to give New Yorkers...hypothermia! Below are photos from our coldest reading room yet. In fact, it was simply...
Uni returns to Brownsville for Halloween at Zion Plaza
The Uni met several hundred kids and a marching band in Brownsville this Halloween. We went to Brooklyn to join a festival organized by Pitkin Avenue BID and set up on Zion Plaza at Pitkin and East New York Ave. Our participation was made possible in part by Penguin...
Uni Tower on Governors Island, 2014
Photos Archive: Governors Island, New York Harbor. Summer 2014 For the second year in a row, the Uni Project partnered with the Brooklyn Public Library, the Queens Library, and the New York Public Library to offer an open-air reading room on Governors Island....
Uni at play streets. Booyah!
This summer, we created regular pop-up reading rooms at six different play streets in Harlem, the Bronx, and Brooklyn. Play streets are just what they sound like—streets closed to traffic so kids can play and get physical exercise. In NYC, the Uni Project is...
Uni in Summer Residency at Brooklyn Bridge Park
The Uni enjoyed a summer-long residency in Brooklyn Bridge Park in 2014. Every Sunday, we offered a staffed outdoor reading room on Pier 6 as part of the park's Pier Kids events. The residency was made possible by a new reading room kit funded by long-time Uni Project...
Keeping things happening in East Village and Greenwich Village
The Uni is about more than books—it's about creating a place where people can gather around books. When we roll out the reading room, people start to acknowledge each other, connect. Sometimes they even read poetry out loud. You don't see many headphones in the Uni....
Why we keep going to Corona
Since 2012, the Uni Project has created open-air reading rooms on Corona Plaza 13 times. Our first deployment was to a strip of sidewalk next to a parking lot that would eventually become this remarkable pedestrian plaza. Over the years, we've brought our Uni tower,...
Why we keep going to Brownsville
Three times in 2014, the Uni Project created an open-air reading room on Pitkin Avenue near Zion Triangle Plaza in Brownsville, Brooklyn, to help draw people out, meet each other, read together, and have fun. We’ll return for a fourth and final visit on Halloween. Our...
Uni wraps up six monthly reading rooms at Fulton Street plazas in Brooklyn
September 5 marked the end of a run of monthly Uni reading rooms at two busy plazas in Brooklyn. Starting in April, we began popping-up at Putnam Triangle Plaza in Clinton Hill, and then at Fowler Square Plaza in Fort Greene, as part of a series of community events...
Uni transforms a new plaza under the elevated in Sunnyside
On July 26, the Uni transformed the new Bliss Plaza under the 7 train in Sunnyside, Queens, into a place to gather, read, and meet neighbors. Our host was the local BID, Sunnyside Shines, and we were invited as part of Sunnyside Summer Strolls celebrating the...
Mayor Martin J. Walsh helps launch Uni for Boston
On Saturday, July 19, we were honored to launch a Uni portable reading room for Boston with help from Mayor Martin J. Walsh. The location was downtown's Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, where this Uni will remain, popping up at different locations along the park all...
Making a reading room at a hip hop concert in Bronx
On a summer evening in the Bronx, the Uni Project made a place for books and learning at a community hip hop concert and dance party. The concert honored Bronx living legend/hip hop founding father, DJ Kool Herc, and later in the evening Kool Herc himself took over...
Creating a reading room at FDR Four Freedoms Park
By now we’ve set up Uni reading rooms on sidewalks, streets, plazas, and parks across New York City. Most of the time, our challenge is to create an oasis—a place to pause, reflect and engage the mind—in what is otherwise a dense environment designed for quick...
Uni Project joins National Book Foundation’s BookUp kids in the park
To help celebrate the accomplishments of NYC middle-schoolers in the National Book Foundation’s BookUp program, we deployed the Uni reading room at Rockefeller Park today. The kids had a picnic and read their work aloud, in public space, and the reading room was...
Uni at Talking Transition event in Lower Manhattan
This week, the Uni Project brought our reading room cart to the Talking Transitions tent in Lower Manhattan, where New Yorkers convened to discuss the Mayoral transition and the future of the city. This historic public forum was initiated by the Open Society...
Uni accepts 2013 Innovations in Reading Prize and deploys to National Book Awards ceremony
We were honored to accept our 2013 Innovations in Reading Prize from the National Book Foundation and to deploy the reading room at the National Book Awards Ceremony this week. Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou were just a few of the writers who passed by the Uni tower...
Uni helps inaugurate plaza in one of city’s most diverse neighborhoods
On Saturday, the Uni created a reading room on the new Liberty Ave Plaza in Ozone Park. This summer, at the invitation of the Bangladeshi American Community Development and Youth Services Corp (BACDYS), Leslie attended community meetings about pedestrianizing the...
Reading together in public on Pitkin Plaza, Brooklyn
Today, the Uni returned to Brownsville, Brooklyn, to create a open-air reading room for hundreds of kids and families. Thank you to our partner, Pitkin Avenue BID, and some terrific local volunteers who helped with the installation. I was there solo today—part driver,...
Creating a reading room in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
The Uni partnered for a fourth time with Phillip Kellogg and the Fulton Area Business Alliance (FAB) to help nurture newly pedestrianized plazas in Brooklyn. By creating an open-air reading room at Putnam Triangle in Clinton Hill, we're sending a message that these...