Updates about our work
Uni serves in Bedford-Stuyvesant
On Thursday, June 6, the Uni went to Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, to create a reading room on an outdoor tennis court at the Seventh Annual “Discover Your Neighborhood Resource and Safety Expo” organized by the Bedford-Stuyvesant Youth, Education and Safety Task...
La Casa Azul in the Uni!
The Uni Project aims to have an outstanding collection of books for New Yorkers to encounter and read on the street. Independent bookstores know books, and they know New Yorkers, and we're enlisting their help. I first heard about Aurora Anaya-Cerda and her amazing...
Uni in Chinatown
On Sunday, the Uni wrapped up five deployments in five days with a visit to NYC Chinatown. Whew! Our pop-up community work began in Boston as residents of Boston's Chinatown with films on a vacant lot and the Chinatown Storefront Library. So this was a return of...
Student-led Uni returns to Chelsea
On Saturday, June 1, we landed at Penn South Playground in Chelsea for the second of two deployments organized in conjunction with middle and high school students from nearby Avenues: The World School. (See photos of first deployment.) This time, we didn't have the...
A Uni lands in New York Harbor
Today, a little Uni took a big step, venturing by boat to an island in the middle of New York Harbor. I'm pleased (and just a little relieved) to announce that the installation of a Uni on Governors Island is complete. Below are the photos. Thanks to Richard...
Uni goes to Crown Heights
On Thursday, May 30, the Uni landed on a stretch of sidewalk next to a church, in front of a Banco Popular, at the corner of Eastern Parkway and Utica Ave in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, near the entrance to the 1/5 Utica Ave train stop. We were there to make a place for...
Uni will visit Brooklyn today
Today, the Uni will go to a busy crossroads in front of Banco Popular in Crown Heights to add books and learning to the landscape. Our partners in this location are Banco Popular and the nearby St. John’s Place Family Center, a family residence with day care, infant...
A student-led Uni serves Chelsea
On Wednesday, May 29, the Uni went to Clement Clarke Moore Park in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan for the first of two deployments organized in conjunction with middle and high school students from nearby Avenues: The World School. For this deployment, students...
Brooklyn, New York, and Queens Public Libraries to launch an outdoor reading room on Governors Island with Uni Project
A new Uni outdoor reading room will launch this Saturday, Jun 1, on Governors Island in NYC harbor, jointly run by all three NYC public library systems: the Brooklyn Public Library, New York Public Library, and Queens Library. We've provided a brand new Uni structure...