Updates about our work
Uni Project expands partnership with NYC DOT to serve more plazas this fall
During 2017, the Uni Project and NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) have teamed up to offer Uni reading rooms at “Weekend Walks” across the city. Initial funding for the partnership came from the Charles H. Revson Foundation, and we are now on pace to offer nearly...
The Uni turns six
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...
Starting a conversation about play
Leslie is participating in a year-long working group focused on "learning through play" with practitioners and researchers convened by the Lego Foundation. At a recent meeting, the group discussed creating a large mural in Philadelphia (inspired by artist Candy Chang)...
The Uni reading room at 2017 Weekend Walks
The Uni Project and NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) have teamed up so that thousands of New Yorkers can enjoy Uni reading rooms that pop up at “Weekend Walks” across New York City. The initiative is supported by funding from the Charles H. Revson...
Keeping up with the Uni
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...
Please support the Uni in NYC Parks
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 is fighting climate change
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, Leslie and I feel...
Street Science: the Uni EXPLORE cart on 125th Street in Harlem
This afternoon, the Uni was hanging out on 125th St at Uptown Grand Central with old friends New Harlem East Merchants Association (our host) and new friends HYPOTHEkids (partners in our new EXPLORE cart, an open-air exploration of science). We wheeled into...
Help the Uni, Help NYC
Here's a copy of our quarterly email newsletter (subscribe) that hit inboxes today:[hr] Dear Friends of the Uni, Sam here. It's my turn to write our quarterly newsletter again. Let me get right to it: I'm writing to ask for your help. This summer, for the first time...