Updates about our work
Uni, Putnam Triangle Plaza, Brooklyn
Photos from deployment of the Uni reading room in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn on June 13, 2014. Our host and partner was the Fulton Area Business Alliance. Made possible in part by a grant from Tribeca Pediatrics’ We Care for Your Kids Foundation.
Uni returns to Corona Plaza in Queens
On June 7, the Uni created an open-air reading room on Corona Plaza, a location we've visited many times before. In 2014, we'll continue our longstanding partnership with Queens Museum as they bring community-oriented programs to this emerging public space. Our work...
Uni returns to Tompkins Square Park
On May 30, the Uni Project wrapped up three days of open air reading rooms in Tompkins Square Park and Washington Square Park. Middle school-aged boys from George Jackson Academy read aloud their own poems and short essays for the public. Boys from The Boys' Club of...
Meejin Yoon, Uni designer, appointed head of MIT Architecture
We could never have created the Uni Project without a partnership with our friends Meejin Yoon, Eric Höweler and the team at HY Architecture. They've designed all our infrastructure, responding patiently and gracefully to our crazy requests, including the first one...
A Uni reading room in Washington Square Park
On May 29, the Uni Project continued a three day run of reading rooms in Tompkins Square Park and Washington Square Park. Middle school-aged boys from George Jackson Academy are reading aloud their own poems and short essays for the public. Boys from The Boys' Club of...
Boys take over the Uni in Tompkins Square Park
On May 28, the Uni Project began a three day run creating open-air reading rooms in Tompkins Square Park and Washington Square Park. Both places have played an important role in the history of ideas and expression in the city, and we're proud to...
Uni Project partners with boys from George Jackson Academy
Truth be told, Sam and I, who founded and run the Uni, are in our forties. And most of our wonderful volunteers are over the age of 25. Yet many of our patrons are kids under 10. Last week’s deployments on the Lower East Side and at Four Freedoms Park marked the start...
Creating a reading room at FDR Four Freedoms Park
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...
The Uni wraps up a week on the Lower East Side
Something special happens when you make a place for reading on a stretch of sidewalk for a week. You become a conversation-starter, a neighborhood meeting place. Life histories are told. Long-time or newly budding interests are revealed—say in ships, or photography....