by Sam | Sep 1, 2019 | (All Posts), BUILD, Deployments, DRAW, Playstreets, READ, Uncategorized
Many NYC kids who live in low-income neighborhoods report that there is little to do over the summer, especially when camps and cultural institutions are out of reach. To help fix that, for six weeks this summer, we created a safe place to hang out and learn next to...
by Sam | Apr 20, 2019 | (All Posts), EXPLORE, READ, Street Festivals
Our pop-up reading room and urban nature exhibit returned to Woodside Ave to help celebrate Songkran (Thai New Year) at a terrific Weekend Walk hosted by Thai Community USA NYC / Qi Will. People held birds from Washington Square Park Eco Projects, and the amazing...
by Sam | Apr 14, 2019 | (All Posts), EXPLORE, READ, Street Festivals
In 2019, our collaboration with NYC Department of Transportation will keep expanding, as we work together to activate plazas, street festivals, and other public spaces and encourage residents to come together on neighborhood streets. This weekend, we kicked things off...
by Sam | Nov 2, 2018 | (All Posts), Plazas, READ
We created a special pop-up reading room in partnership with NYC DOT at Hindsight 2018, an annual conference focused on diversity and planning organized by the Diversity Committee of the New York Metro Chapter of the American Planning Association. In between sessions,...
by Sam | Sep 10, 2018 | (All Posts), BUILD, DRAW, EXPLORE, READ
Behind the bustle of commerce in Lower Manhattan’s Chinatown is an immigrant community with residents less likely to have completed high school and more likely to be in poverty than the average New Yorker. Chinatown residents have also been chronically...
by Sam | Sep 8, 2018 | (All Posts), Deployments, DRAW, EXPLORE, READ
Today, we landed in Chinatown with three of our favorite programs, READ, DRAW, and EXPLORE, at a NYC DOT Weekend Walk, hosted by the Two Bridges Neighborhood Council. Passersby enjoyed a curated collection of books at our pop-up reading room. They drew at our open-air...
