by Sam | Nov 24, 2014
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...
by Sam | Nov 19, 2014
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...
by Sam | Nov 3, 2014
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...
by Sam | Oct 30, 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....
by Leslie | Oct 29, 2014
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...
by Sam | Oct 21, 2014
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...