Updates about our work
Uni brings reading to Jamaica Play Street.
Play Streets across New York City are transforming neighborhoods, providing new, car-free spaces for kids and families to gather. In Jamaica, Queens, residents have developed a play street adjacent to their already-thriving community garden, and kids are provided an...
Uni returns to West Harlem Play Street with Harvest Home
This summer we're starting to develop a circuit through NYC neighborhoods so our pop-up reading room can begin to have a deeper impact. We're relying on partnerships with organizations like Harvest Home—the city's largest operator of farmers markets in high-need, low...
Uni to Bronx Play Street hosted by Kingsbridge Heights Community Center
The Play Street run by the Kingsbridge Heights Community Center is perched on a hill, in the heart of the neighborhood, in front of the familiar red doors of the community center. KHCC has woven together a mix—a Grow NYC Youth market, exercise, dance, yoga, lunch—to...
Uni reading room returns to East Harlem farmers’ market
The Uni returned to East Harlem to create a reading room at Harvest Home's farmers' market and play street. Uni volunteers Emily Jacobson and Katherine Plater were joined by Chris, intern at La Casa Azul Bookstore. Our library partner was NYPL Aguilar Library. Today’s...
Uni reading room returns to Lyman Place, Bronx NY
As part of a run of ten Play Street deployments in partnership with Transportation Alternatives, the Uni returned for a second time to Lyman Place in the Bronx. There are fewer children passing through Lyman Place compared to some of our other locations, but we noted...
Uni lands in East Harlem market and play street
On July 25, the Uni wrapped up three deployments in a row in an East Harlem farmers' market and play street hosted by our partner Harvest Home. Uni volunteers Amelia Carver and Emily Jacobson were joined by Chris and Kasey, interns at Aurora Anaya Cerda's outstanding...
To the Bronx and Ms. Fox’s Play Street
For more than 30 years, Ms. Hetty Fox has made sure there is a safe place to play in the Morrisania neighborhood of the Bronx. (See New York Times article.) We’re honored to have been invited to participate in this play street. The Uni marked the first time that books...
New Uni Cart brings books to West Harlem Play Street
The Uni went to a West Harlem Play Street/Farmers' Market run by the nonprofit Harvest Home. In 2010, Harvest Home piloted play streets at their farmers' markets in partnership with the NYC Strategic Alliance for Health and Transportation Alternatives with...
Uni provides reading room at East NY farmers’ market
This summer, we tried something new: we left a Uni in someone else's hands. For nearly two months, our new Uni Cart has been a regular presence at a weekly Farmers’ Market and Play Street run by East New York Farms/United Community Centers. East NY was one of...