Updates about our work
Street math in the Uni
This summer, we encountered a wonderful exhibit on Governors Island that evoked the street scenery of New York City and prompted you to solve puzzles with magnetized pickles. It also asked you to use your powers of spatial reasoning to connect appliances to water...
Uni back in Corona: keeping people reading, keeping books dry
"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds" reads the inscription on the James Farley Post Office in New York City. This weekend in Queens, Uni Librarians delivered books and learning...
Uni and Queens Library on East River
This weekend, the Uni headed to Long Island City, Queens on the East River with several goals in mind: provide an emerging neighborhood with a taste of a library branch (one is breaking ground soon); strengthen our relationship with Queens Library and make new friends...
Uni headed to Hunters Point, Long Island City on Saturday 9/22
On Saturday 9/22, we'll help the Queens Library and a local Friends group announce a new library branch coming to Hunters Point, Long Island City. Hunters Point is an emerging neighborhood eager for places to gather around books and learning. We'll set up the Uni at...
Museum of Chinese in America curates a cube for the Uni
The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) has been telling stories of Chinese America since 1980 when it was founded by community and student activists (as the New York Chinatown History Project). We're pleased to announce that MOCA has donated a...
The Uni abroad in Almaty wraps season. Will return next Spring.
Today ends the remarkable, wildly successful inaugural season of the Uni in Almaty, Kazakhstan. We're honored to have played a role in creating a roving library that spent all summer in Almaty, and congratulations to everyone involved, including the local children's...
Back to Corona!
It just keeps getting better. A few weeks ago, the Uni went solo to Corona Plaza, and we squeezed a reading room onto a narrow strip of sidewalk alongside traffic and parked trucks. This Sunday, we had room to spread our wings because the pedestrianization of the...
Uni, Williamsburg, Brooklyn!
The Uni came out on Sunday, Aug 5 in Williamsburg on Cook Street at Graham Ave. Thanks to our host, the Graham Avenue Business Improvement District, which is working to foster a farmers’ market and play street here. We came to support their work to create a new,...
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