Where we work
Public space, in all five boroughs of New York City.
Deployments since 2011. Larger dots indicate more visits.
We go to NYC Plazas...
...and NYC Street Festivals
...and NYC Play Streets
...and NYC Parks & Playgrounds
Since 2011, we’ve offered over 740 days of programming in 215+ public spaces across New York City. Everywhere we go is by request from local groups or city agencies and we prioritize underserved locations. To date, over 250 organizations have served as our host partners. We also partner with NYC Department of Transportation, NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, and The Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, aligning our work with citywide initiatives focused on resource equity, parks, plazas, community safety, and educational achievement gaps.
Deployments by Year
Explore deployments on our blog:
Uni helps inaugurate new pedestrian plaza in Brooklyn
The Uni helped the Kensington community celebrate a new pedestrian plaza in their neighborhood at a NYC DOT One-Day Plaza event at Avenue C in Brooklyn. Our hosts were the Kensington Stewards and the Neighborhood Plaza Partnership. It was extraordinarily cold and...
Students at Parsons School of Design help develop Uni DRAW program
Sam and I are always looking for more ways to encourage interaction between people at the Uni. So we partnered with students of Professor Rachel Urkowitz at Parsons to design us new, communal drawing activities. Here are photos of the students as they test and...
Come work with us at the Uni Project
Looking for a challenge? Run pop-up, open-air installations that offer reading, drawing, and learning in NYC public space. You are fearless, friendly, and organized. The Uni Project is hiring. Let's do this. (If you just want to help out from time to time, we're also...
Uni at the Easter Parade in Brownsville Brooklyn
The Uni Project opened our 2016 outdoor season at Betsy Head Park in Brownsville Brooklyn. Thanks to our terrific host and partner Pitkin Avenue BID. We'll be back around in Brownsville later this spring. Happy Easter! [hr] Powers of Ten, a flip book in the Uni...
SoHo Memory Project pops up at Drawing Center with custom Uni cart
The Uni Project has partnered with Yukie Ohta’s Soho Memory Project to bring local history to the streets. Here are photos of Yukie's special cart, currently on display in the lobby of the Drawing Center in NYC. From here, the cart will pop-up at different sites in...
What we’ve learned in the Uni
Want to know how Sam's life in The Magnetic Fields inspired the design of one of our portable reading room kits? He wrote about that and more for Bright Magazine on Medium. Thanks to Stacy Abramson, Editor at Bright for inviting us to share the Uni with educators on...