• Tech for Safer Cities: Tackling Gender Based Violence for Women & Youth – #NYTechWeek

    NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus 185 Greenwich Street, Shop #LL4345, Level LL4, New York, NY, United States

    Sessions: 90 mins each 11 am to 1230 pm – RSVP here! 0230 pm to 4 pm – RSVP here! Open engagement: 12:30 – 2:00 pm and 4:00–6:00 PM (meet the teams, demos, conversations) Gender-based violence (GBV) remains one of the most underreported human rights violations globally, disproportionately affecting women, youth, and vulnerable communities who often face […]

  • CUNY Tech Prep at NYC PIT Pop Up

    NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus 185 Greenwich Street, Shop #LL4345, Level LL4, New York, NY, United States

    Join CUNY Tech Prep and PIT @ CUNY at the NYC PIT Pop Up for a day of demos and conversation!   Three group projects will be demoed, focusing on promoting public good related to transportation, recreation, and finance:  HerRide: HerRide is a community-based carpooling platform that helps women travel together more safely and comfortably. The […]

  • Affective Landmarking – An App to Close Read with Your Emotions

    NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus 185 Greenwich Street, Shop #LL4345, Level LL4, New York, NY, United States

    Come interact with a tool that turns close reading into a color spectrum. Affective Landmarking is an annotation style where readers highlight passages in a text and tag them with emotional responses, such as fear, joy, etc. Those tags are visualized in real time, mapping the diverse reading experiences to reflect emotional clusters, overlaps, or disappearances […]

  • Du Bois Does Data: Juneteenth at the Oculus — Presented by Radical Imagination (Day One)

    NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus 185 Greenwich Street, Shop #LL4345, Level LL4, New York, NY, United States

    This is part of a three-day weekend of presentations from Radical Imagination celebrating Juneteenth by exploring the legacy of W.E.B. DuBois. 35 years after slavery, Du Bois set out to provide a definitive image of the Negro condition in the United States. His data efforts not only quantified economic parity or lack thereof, he also […]

  • Du Bois Does Data: Juneteenth at the Oculus — Presented by Radical Imagination (Day Two)

    This is part of a three-day weekend of presentations from Radical Imagination celebrating Juneteenth by exploring the legacy of W.E.B. DuBois. 35 years after slavery, Du Bois set out to provide a definitive image of the Negro condition in the United States. His data efforts not only quantified economic parity or lack thereof, he also […]

  • Wiki-Play Friday

    Wikimedia New York City invites you to Wiki-Play Fridays, a pop-up exhibition and laboratory of wiki-based immersive design gaming at the World Trade Center Oculus in Lower Manhattan. These are Friday afternoon events (2-6pm), held once per month. There will be demos and playtesting of wiki-games and novel modes of interaction, both digital and tactile. […]

  • CUNY AI Lab’s Inference Arcade *RESCHEDULED*

    NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus 185 Greenwich Street, Shop #LL4345, Level LL4, New York, NY, United States

    *This event has been rescheduled to July 9th, 2026, from 2:00pm-6:00pm. The CUNY AI Lab (CAIL) is a faculty- and staff-led initiative based at the Graduate Center that supports experimentation with AI by teachers and researchers across disciplines. Funded by the Office of Academic Affairs and jointly administered by Graduate Center Digital Initiatives, the Teaching […]

  • Summer PIT Stop: “Camp Data Trails”

    NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus 185 Greenwich Street, Shop #LL4345, Level LL4, New York, NY, United States

    Part 1/5 of our Summer PIT Stop workshop series – sign up HERE for sessions at 11:30am or 4:30pm! At Camp Data Trails, campers become digital trail guides, following the clues to discover how personal and community data is collected, shared, sold, and used by companies, organizations, and governments. We’ll learn how to spot data […]

  • City Hall, Decoded

    NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus 185 Greenwich Street, Shop #LL4345, Level LL4, New York, NY, United States

    Every day, the decisions city officials make shape our neighborhoods. From city council votes and school board meetings to housing ordinances and zoning policy — yet many residents never hear about these decisions until they already happened. The Common News is building a new model for civic engagement centered on one simple idea: everyone deserves […]

  • CivicChat *POSTPONED

    NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus 185 Greenwich Street, Shop #LL4345, Level LL4, New York, NY, United States

    The Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) is a vital resource for New Yorkers, investigating allegations of police misconduct to ensure transparency and trust. While the CCRB maintains an extensive database of thousands of annual grievances, navigating this information can be a hurdle for the average resident or civil rights advocate. CivilChat was created to bridge […]

  • Summer PIT Stop: “The Case of the Stolen Deed”

    NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus 185 Greenwich Street, Shop #LL4345, Level LL4, New York, NY, United States

    Part 2/5 of our Summer PIT Stop workshop series – sign up HERE for sessions at 11:30am or 4:30pm! Something strange is happening in the neighborhood: homes are vanishing on paper, signatures are appearing like ghosts, and property records may not be what they seem. In “The Case of the Stolen Deed”, campers become Deed […]