Six years ago this morning, we launched the Uni portable reading room in Lower Manhattan on Sept 11, 2011. Leslie and I are grateful to everyone who has joined us along the way. Just last month, we quietly passed another milestone, setting up the Uni for the 500th...
The Uni is working flat out—visiting up to three NYC neighborhoods a day, and we love it. If you want to tag along, here are some ways to follow the Uni, at your preferred periodicity. Quarterly Try our quarterly email newsletter. Quarterly means only four emails a...
New Yorkers don’t just like parks, or even love them. We are parks. Without shared, green spaces, we could not continue this grand experiment in urban density. (Or live next door to the guy with such horrible taste in music.) Parks make New York and New Yorkers...
The Uni Project recently completed our 500th deployment in public space in New York City. (We’re celebrating with a group whale watch trip for all staff!) So, I wouldn’t call us a big nonprofit, but we aren’t exactly small anymore. As we grow,...
In 2015, we partnered with Hillsboro Public Library in Oregon and built them one of our portable reading room kits. The Hillsboro staff named the cart “Library on the Loose” (Lucy), and they are using the kit to reach patrons out in the community. Here are...
