by Sam | Jun 23, 2014
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...
by Sam | May 21, 2014
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...
by Sam | May 3, 2014
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...
by Sam | Nov 24, 2013
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...
by Sam | Nov 22, 2013
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...
by Sam | Nov 5, 2013
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...
