Street Lab

Street Lab is a nonprofit that transforms New York City streets into places that improve lives, strengthen neighborhoods, and bring New Yorkers together. We use design, fabrication, and a pop-up approach to bring this vision to life across the city. We work closely with communities and city government to bring immediate benefits to residents while building support for long-term change, and our priority is serving low-income neighborhoods. We also send kits around the world for other cities to use.

We activate public spaces of all kinds across New York City, using programs that rely on physical designs to offer a place to gather, working in support of place-making efforts already underway by local groups. We focus on solutions that communities can’t easily implement themselves, and we share these resources across the city. We choose locations based on requests from community groups, and we work in partnership with city agencies, prioritizing underserved areas. We also send kits around the world so that other cities can copy our model.