Updates about our work
Postcards from the Uni
Since 2011, we've been sending postcards from the Uni to our donors, volunteers, and partners. Twitter works great, but we think there's nothing quite like receiving a postcard in the mail. Here's a look back at some of our favorites. (You can receive postcards from...
Thank you
2013 was a great year for The Uni Project. We completed nearly twice as many deployments as we anticipated, serving readers by the hundreds, and being observed by thousands more in passing. This has been an extraordinary journey so far, taking us all over New York,...
Uni reading room helps celebrate big gift to NYC plazas
Today, the Uni was on hand for a special ceremony at Corona Plaza: NYC DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan and NYC Council Member Julissa Ferreras announced an $800,000 gift from Chase to maintain pedestrian plazas in under-resourced neighborhoods. This was our tenth...
Uni will round out season at Corona Plaza at special event
The Uni and thirty school kids will join a special event at Corona Plaza, Tuesday 11/25 at 11am. NYC DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan and NYC Council Member Julissa Ferreras will announce a gift from Chase to maintain pedestrian plazas in under-resourced...
NYC DOT will share groundbreaking work with streets, on the street, in Uni
Yesterday, at the Talking Transition tent, the Uni received a wonderful donation of books from NYC DOT, delivered by Jeff Malamy from the NYC DOT Commissioner’s Office. Included was the just-published “Sustainable Streets: 2013 and Beyond,” a detailed summary of the...
Uni at Talking Transition event in Lower Manhattan
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...
Uni accepts 2013 Innovations in Reading Prize and deploys to National Book Awards ceremony
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...
Collaboration with Uprise Books brings banned books to NYC streets
Books are powerful. When books are banned or challenged in America (which happens more often than you might think), they end up feeling even more powerful. And interesting. And tempting to read. The Uprise Books Project, fellow Innovations in Reading Prize winners,...
Can the Uni be in two places at once? Yes.
We're approaching our 60th deployment of the Uni reading room since launching in 2011. We plan to hit 120 in 2014, and our goal is ambitious: serve every community that invites the Uni and have zero declines due to scheduling conflicts. The next step is clear: the Uni...