The Uni went to a West Harlem Play Street/Farmers’ Market run by the nonprofit Harvest Home. In 2010, Harvest Home piloted play streets at their farmers’ markets in partnership with the NYC Strategic Alliance for Health and Transportation Alternatives with overwhelmingly positive results. (Report PDF.) Harvest Home has continued the effort, and this year the Uni added books and learning to the mix with support from Transportation Alternatives. Thanks to Amelia Carver and Emily Jacobson for staffing the Uni at this location.
We also used this deployment to continue road testing our new design: a Uni Cart that transports like a rock stage case and unfolds into a 360 degree, sculptural book shelf. Adding the cart to our fleet is at the heart of our strategy to double our deployments each year we operate. Game on.
(Note: this post was published on August 23, 2013 and backdated to July 24, 2013.)