diff --git a/notebook/lab/__init__.py b/notebook/lab/__init__.py
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb..000000000
diff --git a/notebook/lab/handlers.py b/notebook/lab/handlers.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 21eca6810..000000000
--- a/notebook/lab/handlers.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-"""Tornado handlers for the tree view."""
-
-# Copyright (c) Jupyter Development Team.
-# Distributed under the terms of the Modified BSD License.
-
-import os
-from tornado import web
-from ..base.handlers import IPythonHandler, FileFindHandler
-
-
-class LabHandler(IPythonHandler):
-
-    """Render the Jupyter Lab View."""
-
-    @web.authenticated
-    def get(self):
-        self.write(self.render_template('lab.html',
-            page_title='Jupyter Lab',
-            terminals_available=self.settings['terminals_available'],
-            mathjax_url=self.mathjax_url,
-            mathjax_config=self.mathjax_config))
-
-#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# URL to handler mappings
-#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-default_handlers = [
-    (r"/lab", LabHandler),
-    (r"/lab/(.*)", FileFindHandler,
-        {'path': os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'build')}),
-    ]
diff --git a/notebook/lab/index.js b/notebook/lab/index.js
deleted file mode 100644
index f0a2b3319..000000000
--- a/notebook/lab/index.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright (c) Jupyter Development Team.
-// Distributed under the terms of the Modified BSD License.
-'use strict';
-
-// Load CSS.
-require('font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css');
-require('jupyter-js-plugins/lib/default-theme/index.css');
-
-// ES6 Promise polyfill
-require('es6-promise').polyfill();
-
-var phosphide = require('phosphide/lib/core/application');
-
-var app = new phosphide.Application({
-  extensions: [
-    require('phosphide/lib/extensions/commandpalette').commandPaletteExtension,
-    require('jupyter-js-plugins/lib/terminal/plugin').terminalExtension,
-    require('jupyter-js-plugins/lib/filehandler/plugin').fileHandlerExtension,
-    require('jupyter-js-plugins/lib/filebrowser/plugin').fileBrowserExtension,
-    require('jupyter-js-plugins/lib/imagehandler/plugin').imageHandlerExtension,
-    require('jupyter-js-plugins/lib/help/plugin').helpHandlerExtension,
-    require('jupyter-js-plugins/lib/notebook/plugin').notebookHandlerExtension,
-    require('jupyter-js-plugins/lib/shortcuts/plugin').shortcutsExtension,
-    require('jupyter-js-plugins/lib/about/plugin').aboutExtension,
-    require('jupyter-js-plugins/lib/landing/plugin').landingExtension,
-    require('jupyter-js-plugins/lib/main/plugin').mainExtension,
-  ],
-  providers: [
-    require('jupyter-js-plugins/lib/filehandler/plugin').fileHandlerProvider,
-    require('jupyter-js-plugins/lib/services/plugin').servicesProvider,
-    require('jupyter-js-plugins/lib/rendermime/plugin').renderMimeProvider
-  ]
-});
-
-window.onload = function() {
-  app.run();
-}
diff --git a/notebook/lab/package.json b/notebook/lab/package.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 17001a450..000000000
--- a/notebook/lab/package.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "private": true,
-  "name": "jupyter-js-lab",
-  "version": "0.1.0",
-  "description": "JupyterLab",
-  "main": "lib/index.js",
-  "typings": "lib/index.d.ts",
-  "dependencies": {
-    "es6-promise": "^3.1.2",
-    "font-awesome": "^4.6.1",
-    "jupyter-js-plugins": "^0.11.13",
-    "phosphide": "^0.9.4"
-  },
-  "devDependencies": {
-    "css-loader": "^0.23.1",
-    "file-loader": "^0.8.5",
-    "json-loader": "^0.5.4",
-    "rimraf": "^2.5.0",
-    "style-loader": "^0.13.0",
-    "typescript": "^1.7.5",
-    "url-loader": "^0.5.7",
-    "webpack": "^1.12.11"
-  },
-  "scripts": {
-    "clean": "rimraf build",
-    "build": "npm update jupyter-js-plugins && webpack --config webpack.conf.js",
-    "postinstall": "npm dedupe",
-    "test": "echo 'no tests specified'"
-  },
-  "author": "Project Jupyter",
-  "license": "BSD-3-Clause"
-}
diff --git a/notebook/lab/webpack.conf.js b/notebook/lab/webpack.conf.js
deleted file mode 100644
index 98e61e012..000000000
--- a/notebook/lab/webpack.conf.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-// Support for Node 0.10
-// See https://github.com/webpack/css-loader/issues/144
-require('es6-promise').polyfill();
-
-module.exports = {
-  entry: './index.js',
-  output: {
-    path: __dirname + "/build",
-    filename: "bundle.js",
-    publicPath: "lab/"
-  },
-  node: {
-    fs: "empty"
-  },
-  debug: true,
-  bail: true,
-  devtool: 'source-map',
-  module: {
-    loaders: [
-      { test: /\.css$/, loader: 'style-loader!css-loader' },
-      { test: /\.json$/, loader: 'json-loader' },
-      { test: /\.html$/, loader: 'file'},
-      // jquery-ui loads some images
-      { test: /\.(jpg|png|gif)$/, loader: "file" },
-      // required to load font-awesome
-      { test: /\.woff2(\?v=\d+\.\d+\.\d+)?$/, loader: "url?limit=10000&minetype=application/font-woff" },
-      { test: /\.woff(\?v=\d+\.\d+\.\d+)?$/, loader: "url?limit=10000&minetype=application/font-woff" },
-      { test: /\.ttf(\?v=\d+\.\d+\.\d+)?$/, loader: "url?limit=10000&minetype=application/octet-stream" },
-      { test: /\.eot(\?v=\d+\.\d+\.\d+)?$/, loader: "file" },
-      { test: /\.svg(\?v=\d+\.\d+\.\d+)?$/, loader: "url?limit=10000&minetype=image/svg+xml" }
-    ]
-  },
-  externals: {
-      "base/js/namespace": "base/js/namespace",
-      "notebook/js/outputarea": "notebook/js/outputarea",
-      "services/kernels/comm": "services/kernels/comm"
-  }
-}
diff --git a/notebook/templates/lab.html b/notebook/templates/lab.html
deleted file mode 100644
index 2f7175eaf..000000000
--- a/notebook/templates/lab.html
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,100 +0,0 @@
-<!DOCTYPE HTML>
-<html>
-
-<head>
-    <meta charset="utf-8">
-
-    <title>{{page_title}}</title>
-    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
-    <script src="{{static_url("components/requirejs/require.js") }}" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
-    <script>
-      require.config({
-          {% if version_hash %}
-          urlArgs: "v={{version_hash}}",
-          {% endif %}
-          baseUrl: '{{static_url("", include_version=False)}}',
-          paths: {
-          {% if ignore_minified_js %}
-            'auth/js/main': 'auth/js/main',
-          {% else %}
-            'auth/js/main': 'auth/js/main.min',
-          {% endif %}
-            custom : '{{ base_url }}custom',
-            nbextensions : '{{ base_url }}nbextensions',
-            kernelspecs : '{{ base_url }}kernelspecs',
-            underscore : 'components/underscore/underscore-min',
-            backbone : 'components/backbone/backbone-min',
-            jquery: 'components/jquery/jquery.min',
-            bootstrap: 'components/bootstrap/js/bootstrap.min',
-            bootstraptour: 'components/bootstrap-tour/build/js/bootstrap-tour.min',
-            'jquery-ui': 'components/jquery-ui/ui/minified/jquery-ui.min',
-            moment: 'components/moment/moment',
-            codemirror: 'components/codemirror',
-            termjs: 'components/term.js/src/term',
-            typeahead: 'components/jquery-typeahead/dist/jquery.typeahead'
-          },
-          map: { // for backward compatibility
-            "*": {
-              "jqueryui": "jquery-ui",
-            }
-          },
-          shim: {
-            typeahead: {
-              deps: ["jquery"],
-              exports: "typeahead"
-            },
-            underscore: {
-              exports: '_'
-            },
-            backbone: {
-              deps: ["underscore", "jquery"],
-              exports: "Backbone"
-            },
-            bootstrap: {
-              deps: ["jquery"],
-              exports: "bootstrap"
-            },
-            bootstraptour: {
-              deps: ["bootstrap"],
-              exports: "Tour"
-            },
-            "jquery-ui": {
-              deps: ["jquery"],
-              exports: "$"
-            }
-          },
-          waitSeconds: 30,
-      });
-
-      require.config({
-          map: {
-              '*':{
-                'contents': '{{ contents_js_source }}',
-              }
-          }
-      });
-    </script>
-
-    {% block meta %}
-    {% endblock %}
-
-    {% if mathjax_url %}
-    <script type="text/javascript" src="{{mathjax_url}}?config={{mathjax_config}}&amp;delayStartupUntil=configured" charset="utf-8"></script>
-    {% endif %}
-
-</head>
-
-<body class="{% block bodyclasses %}{% endblock %}" {% block params %}{% endblock %}>
-
-{% block script %}
-<script id='jupyter-config-data' type="application/json">{
-  "baseUrl": "{{base_url | urlencode}}",
-  "wsUrl": "{{ws_url| urlencode}}",
-  "notebookPath": "{{notebook_path | urlencode}}"
-}</script>
-<script src="lab/bundle.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
-{% endblock %}
-
-</body>
-
-</html>
diff --git a/setupbase.py b/setupbase.py
index 03ab947b1..20846aaef 100644
--- a/setupbase.py
+++ b/setupbase.py
@@ -129,9 +129,6 @@ def find_package_data():
         pjoin('static', 'services', 'built', '*contents.js'),
         pjoin('static', 'services', 'built', '*contents.js.map'),
     ])
-    
-    # Add the Lab page contents
-    static_data.append(pjoin('lab', 'build', '*'))
 
     components = pjoin("static", "components")
     # select the components we actually need to install
@@ -217,9 +214,7 @@ def check_package_data(package_data):
         pkg_root = pjoin(*pkg.split('.'))
         for d in data:
             path = pjoin(pkg_root, d)
-            if 'lab/build' in path:  # Do not verify lab install yet
-                continue
-            elif '*' in path:
+            if '*' in path:
                 assert len(glob(path)) > 0, "No files match pattern %s" % path
             else:
                 assert os.path.exists(path), "Missing package data: %s" % path
@@ -365,7 +360,6 @@ class JavascriptDependencies(Command):
     
     bower_dir = pjoin(static, 'components')
     node_modules = pjoin(repo_root, 'node_modules')
-    lab_dir = pjoin(repo_root, 'notebook', 'lab')
     
     def run(self):
         npm_install(repo_root)
@@ -377,12 +371,6 @@ class JavascriptDependencies(Command):
             print("You can install js dependencies with `npm install`", file=sys.stderr)
             raise
 
-        try:
-            npm_install(self.lab_dir)
-            run(['npm', 'run', 'build'], cwd=self.lab_dir)
-        except Exception as e:
-            print("Failed to install JupyterLab`: %s" % e, file=sys.stderr)
-
         # update package data in case this created new files
         update_package_data(self.distribution)