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Summer Streets takes place on consecutive Saturdays in the summer (the 2011 dates are August 6, 13 and 20) from 7:00 am - 1:00 pm. The 2010 route connects the Brooklyn Bridge with Central Park with recommended connections along low-traffic streets to the Hudson River Greenway, Harlem and Governors Island allowing participants to plan a route as long or short as they wish.
This event takes a valuable public space - our City's streets - and opens them up to people to play, walk, bike, and breathe. Summer Streets provides more space for healthy recreation and is a part of NYC's greening initiative by encouraging New Yorkers to use more sustainable forms of transportation.
Modeled on other events from around the world including Bogotá, Colombia's Ciclovia, Paris, France's Paris Plage, and even New York's own Museum Mile, this event will be part bike tour, part block party, a great time for exercise, people watching, and just enjoying summer mornings.
Visit nyc.gov/summerstreets for more information.
In 1996, Ruth Shuman founded Publicolor, a New York City based youth development organization, to engage at-risk students in their education and communities with color, design and collaboration. In doing so, Publicolor aims to build self-confidence in all areas of their student's lives and assist in bettering a struggling community through art and design. For the project Color and Collaboration, Shuman drew inspiration from the Fibonacci series, a math sequence in which each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers, to express the synergistic relationship between time and motion. Over the course of one day, Publicolor students and local volunteers transformed a concrete wall with the Fibonacci series inspired design along 49th Avenue between 21st Street and Skillman Avenue in Queens.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, partners
Color and Collaboration by Ruth Lande Shuman and Publicolor students
Bridge, 49th Avenue between 21st Street and Skillman Avenue, Queens
DOT hosted a free bicycle helmet fitting and distribution event on Saturday, May 14,2016. Sponsored by Council Member Ben Kallos.
On Monday, November 23 NYC DOT and DDC announce Plaza de las Americas ribbon cutting in Washington Heights, and DOT unveils OneNYC Plaza Equity Program for technical assistance and maintenance for plazas citywide.
Debris on a wall in the Battery Park Underpass left behind from floodwaters during Hurricane Sandy.
Photo: NYC Department of Transportation / Alex Engel
"Each a specific bicycle; together a collective symbol of joyful empowerment."
Taliah Lempert’s designs of uniquely fashioned bicycles playfully ride alongside cyclists headed down the Greenway. The barriers, that separate cyclists and pedestrians from vehicular traffic, measure approximately 1400 feet in length.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
Bike Stacks by Taliah Lempert
Presented with New York Cares
Barrier Site, Spring 2011-Spring 2012
Flushing Ave between Williamsburg St W and Washington Ave, Brooklyn
The Labyrinth is an ancient symbol meant to cement the relationship between the natural world and art with just one path to the center of the maze and one path of return. The sidewalk on which it was painted is a crossroads of the community garden, the Time Landscape, and the massive sculpture entitled “Sylvette” by Pablo Picasso. Entering the Seed Labyrinth, one slows down taking notice of nature in this busy city.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Arterventions
Seed Labyrinth by Sara Jones
Presented with LaGuardia Corner Gardens
505 LaGuardia Place, Manhattan
Along the Summer Streets route, Cyclo-Phones, created by Marcelo Ertorteguy and Sara Valente, featured two stationary, bike-powered musical instruments. Each sculpture consisted of a large blue plastic drum, PVC pipes and a bicycle. As an individual pedaled the attached bicycle, the rotation of the pedals activated the sculpture creating subtle music, and as the cyclists pedaled faster, the music became louder and more dynamic.
DOT’S Urban Art Program transformed the Summer Street route into an open-air gallery with four installations. By infusing artist interventions such as, Cyclo-Phones, the Urban Art Program aimed to enhance and enrich the public’s experience at Summer Streets.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Summer Streets
Cyclo-Phones by Marcelo Ertorteguy and Sara Valente
Astor Place & Lafayette Street, Manhattan
New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan and Mayor Edward I. Koch hosted a special reading of Eddie Shapes Up, a children’s book written by the mayor, and launched Walk Ways, a new program that helps schools establish the importance of active transportation and gives them the resources to encourage walking among students. Schools can visit nyc.gov/dot to register, download lesson plans and connect with DOT safety educators for guidance and to develop tailored walk-to-school route plans. The Commissioner and Mayor joined fourth and fifth graders from P.S. 64 in Manhattan’s East Village for the event.
“With unprecedented safety redesigns and educational initiatives in all five boroughs, our streets are shaping up for New Yorkers of all ages to walk and bike more,” said DOT Commissioner Sadik-Khan. “By teaching students the benefits of active transportation, we’re helping them build healthy habits for life.”
“The most marvelous sight in New York City is to see youngsters, adolescents and adults cycling on the many bicycle paths we now have which separate bikers from vehicular traffic,” said Mayor Koch. “It is glorious to watch, and I wish I were young again to participate.”
MTA and NYCDOT announced the expansion of bus lane enforcement on Thursday, August 6.
Pictured: MTA Bus Company President and NYC Transit SVP of Buses Craig Cipriano and NYCDOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg.
Photo Credit: Marc Hermann / MTA NYC Transit
NYCDOT held an international design competition to select a design to beautify the new pedestrian plazas in Times Square while awaiting a full redesign and permanent build-out. A jury, including representatives from the Times Square Alliance, the Mayor's Office and the Design Commission as well as an outside artist selected Cool Water, Hot Island from over 150 submissions and it was installed in July 2010.
Artist Molly Dilworth, best known in New York for her rooftop paintings, designed the mural based on the urban "heat-island effect," where cities tend to experience warmer temperatures than rural settings. The blues and light shades of the design reflect more sunlight and absorb less heat—improving the look of the popular pedestrian areas while also making it more comfortable places to sit.
Support was provided by donations made to the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City. The Mayor's Fund is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting innovative public-private partnerships and projects such as those of the DOT. Photos are courtesy of the Times Square Alliance.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Special Project
Cool Water, Hot Island by Molly Dilworth
Presented with Times Square Alliance and reNEWable Times Square
Broadway between 42nd and 47th Streets, Manhattan
Playful, surreal narratives designed by artist Carla Torres have been painted onto 715 feet of concrete barrier in Tribeca along the Hudson River Greenway near Pier 25.
Torres’ design is inspired by silhouetted shadow puppets and a narrative based on the longing for spring and the playful energy of the cyclists and pedestrians who use the park on a daily basis.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
Design submission by Carla Torres
Presented with New York Cares and Hudson River Park Trust
West St South between North Moore St and Laight St, Manhattan
NYCDOT held an international design competition to select a design to beautify the new pedestrian plazas in Times Square while awaiting a full redesign and permanent build-out. A jury, including representatives from the Times Square Alliance, the Mayor's Office and the Design Commission as well as an outside artist selected Cool Water, Hot Island from over 150 submissions and it was installed in July 2010.
Artist Molly Dilworth, best known in New York for her rooftop paintings, designed the mural based on the urban "heat-island effect," where cities tend to experience warmer temperatures than rural settings. The blues and light shades of the design reflect more sunlight and absorb less heat—improving the look of the popular pedestrian areas while also making it more comfortable places to sit.
Support was provided by donations made to the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City. The Mayor's Fund is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting innovative public-private partnerships and projects such as those of the DOT. Photos are courtesy of the Times Square Alliance.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Special Project
Cool Water, Hot Island by Molly Dilworth
Presented with Times Square Alliance and reNEWable Times Square
Broadway between 42nd and 47th Streets, Manhattan
Summer Streets takes place on consecutive Saturdays in the summer (the 2011 dates are August 6, 13 and 20) from 7:00 am - 1:00 pm. The 2010 route connects the Brooklyn Bridge with Central Park with recommended connections along low-traffic streets to the Hudson River Greenway, Harlem and Governors Island allowing participants to plan a route as long or short as they wish.
This event takes a valuable public space - our City's streets - and opens them up to people to play, walk, bike, and breathe. Summer Streets provides more space for healthy recreation and is a part of NYC's greening initiative by encouraging New Yorkers to use more sustainable forms of transportation.
Modeled on other events from around the world including Bogotá, Colombia's Ciclovia, Paris, France's Paris Plage, and even New York's own Museum Mile, this event will be part bike tour, part block party, a great time for exercise, people watching, and just enjoying summer mornings.
Visit nyc.gov/summerstreets for more information.
Block association LinRoFORMA (Lincoln Road between Flatbush and Ocean Residents and Merchants Association) partnered with DOT to make their corridor a cleaner, greener, safer and more welcoming place with an art project installed across their footbridge. Inspired by the “chandelier of sneakers” she saw in the area, Crystal invited the community to contribute shoelaces for her installation and to also donate shoes to a local shelter. Crystal used the shoelaces to create honeycomb granny squares that were then stitched onto the chain-link fence. The project combines the ideas of movement, of comfort and of reclaiming the community.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Foot Traffic by Crystal Gregory
Presented with LinRoFORMA
Lincoln Road, Brooklyn
crystalgregory.org/artwork_foottraffic
Acting MTA Chair & CEO Janno Lieber, Interim MTA New York City Transit President Craig Cipriano, and DOT Commissioner Hank Gutman hold a press conference at Fordham Plaza on Mon., August 16, 2021 to announce new efforts to enhance the bus network.
Nathan Lloyd.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA)
Stop, Look, Listen was created by two professional artists and a team of youth artists as part of the Groundswell Community Mural Project’s flagship Summer Leadership Institute (SLI). SLI teams spend seven weeks during working with artists and community-based organizations, learning job skills and creating public art throughout New York City. This mural, created at the request of Brooklyn Community Board 7, focuses on traffic and pedestrian safety education, as well as site-specific themes and cultural diversity. The mural’s bold colors and graphic design make it a welcome addition to the neighborhood. At over 200 feet in length, the SLI team’s quick, careful, and detailed execution of this mural was a great accomplishment!
The safety education focus of this mural was informed by workshops lead by NYCDOT Safety Education. The artists and youth artists researched safety issues near the mural site which influenced their final design. Speed of vehicular traffic, high levels of carbon dioxide in the air, and the need for all modes of transportation to respectfully share the streets are just a few of the themes beautifully integrated in to this mural.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Special Project
Stop, Look, Listen by Conor McGrady and Amy Mahnik
Presented with NYCDOT Safety Education and Groundswell Community Mural Project
7th Ave between 62nd and 64th St, Sunset Park, Brooklyn
This 'Weigh in Motion' site is an inter-agency project where we are collecting truck weight as vehicles pass over a scale built into the roadway near Alexander Hamilton Bridge. Learn more at www.nyc.gov/dot
The $1.8 Million project will include 3 sites in total. The multi-agency Technical Advisory Committee for the project determined where the roadway weigh in motion systems should be installed. The additional sites currently in design are located on Van Dam Street between Hunters Point Ave and 48th Avenue Queens NY and on Rockaway Blvd in Queens just west of the Nassau County Line.
“Undulating planes of pattern and color that drift back and forth creating a syncopated rhythm with the traffic rushing by.”
Artist Almond Zigmund’s work strives to sharpen our perceptions of space while exploring the nature of opposition. Combining crisp geometry, vivid color, and intricate patterns, her drawings, sculptures, and installations reference aspects of the built environment.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
Planes A-Way by Almond Zigmund
Presented with New York Cares
21st Williamsburg St W between Kent and Flushing Aves, Brooklyn
NYCDOT held an international design competition to select a design to beautify the new pedestrian plazas in Times Square while awaiting a full redesign and permanent build-out. A jury, including representatives from the Times Square Alliance, the Mayor's Office and the Design Commission as well as an outside artist selected Cool Water, Hot Island from over 150 submissions and it was installed in July 2010.
Artist Molly Dilworth, best known in New York for her rooftop paintings, designed the mural based on the urban "heat-island effect," where cities tend to experience warmer temperatures than rural settings. The blues and light shades of the design reflect more sunlight and absorb less heat—improving the look of the popular pedestrian areas while also making it more comfortable places to sit.
Support was provided by donations made to the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City. The Mayor's Fund is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting innovative public-private partnerships and projects such as those of the DOT. Photos are courtesy of the Times Square Alliance.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Special Project
Cool Water, Hot Island by Molly Dilworth
Presented with Times Square Alliance and reNEWable Times Square
Broadway between 42nd and 47th Streets, Manhattan
BroLab, an artistic collective, presented their installation Bench Press as part of the 2012 Summer Streets program. The movable, collapsible wooden and plastic benches were constructed and deconstructed throughout the route at the Foley Square, Midtown and Uptown rest stops. The artists aimed to both physically and visually encourage viewers to become aware of their surroundings through public interaction with this minimal sculptural form.
DOT’s Urban Art Program transformed the route into an open-air gallery with four installations. By including artistic interventions such as, Bench Press, the Urban Art Program aimed to enhance and enrich the public’s experience at Summer Streets.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Summer Streets
Bench Press by BroLab
Various sites along Route: Foley Square, 25th Street and 52nd Street, Manhattan
New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan and Mayor Edward I. Koch hosted a special reading of Eddie Shapes Up, a children’s book written by the mayor, and launched Walk Ways, a new program that helps schools establish the importance of active transportation and gives them the resources to encourage walking among students. Schools can visit nyc.gov/dot to register, download lesson plans and connect with DOT safety educators for guidance and to develop tailored walk-to-school route plans. The Commissioner and Mayor joined fourth and fifth graders from P.S. 64 in Manhattan’s East Village for the event.
“With unprecedented safety redesigns and educational initiatives in all five boroughs, our streets are shaping up for New Yorkers of all ages to walk and bike more,” said DOT Commissioner Sadik-Khan. “By teaching students the benefits of active transportation, we’re helping them build healthy habits for life.”
“The most marvelous sight in New York City is to see youngsters, adolescents and adults cycling on the many bicycle paths we now have which separate bikers from vehicular traffic,” said Mayor Koch. “It is glorious to watch, and I wish I were young again to participate.”
Block association LinRoFORMA (Lincoln Road between Flatbush and Ocean Residents and Merchants Association) partnered with DOT to make their corridor a cleaner, greener, safer and more welcoming place with an art project installed across their footbridge. Inspired by the “chandelier of sneakers” she saw in the area, Crystal invited the community to contribute shoelaces for her installation and to also donate shoes to a local shelter. Crystal used the shoelaces to create honeycomb granny squares that were then stitched onto the chain-link fence. The project combines the ideas of movement, of comfort and of reclaiming the community.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Foot Traffic by Crystal Gregory
Presented with LinRoFORMA
Lincoln Road, Brooklyn
crystalgregory.org/artwork_foottraffic
NYC DOT, NYC Bike Share, Citi Bike and our co-sponsors held a community planning workshop for the expansion of the bike share system in Manhattan’s CB11 (Harlem) on June 30, 2015.
This event was co-sponsored by Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, Council Member Inez Dickens, Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez, Borough President Gale Brewer, State Senator Bill Perkins, State Senator José Serrano, Assembly Member Robert Rodriguez, Assembly Member Keith Wright, Community Board 11 and New Harlem East Merchants Association.
Acting MTA Chair & CEO Janno Lieber, Interim MTA New York City Transit President Craig Cipriano, and DOT Commissioner Hank Gutman hold a press conference at Fordham Plaza on Mon., August 16, 2021 to announce new efforts to enhance the bus network.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA)
The Labyrinth is an ancient symbol meant to cement the relationship between the natural world and art with just one path to the center of the maze and one path of return. The sidewalk on which it was painted is a crossroads of the community garden, the Time Landscape, and the massive sculpture entitled “Sylvette” by Pablo Picasso. Entering the Seed Labyrinth, one slows down taking notice of nature in this busy city.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Arterventions
Seed Labyrinth by Sara Jones
Presented with LaGuardia Corner Gardens
505 LaGuardia Place, Manhattan
The pilot Barrier Beautification project of NYCDOT’s Urban Art Program was implemented on 1900 feet of concrete barriers in a series of geometric, undulating, layered waves designed by Pedro Delgado, an illustrator at the Grey Group World Wide and implemented with volunteers from the organizations.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
Wave Pattern Design by Pedro Delgado
Presented with City Year and Grey Group Worldwide
W 155th Street & Harlem River Drive, Manhattan
On Wednesday, December 23, 2015 NYC DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg unveiled new pedestrian safety improvements at the intersection of Hunts Point Ave and Bruckner Blvd in the Bronx.
Artist Andrea Legge received a BFA from the Ontario College of Art in Toronto and a MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She was a member of The Rivington School of Manhattan’s Lower East Side during the 1980s and served as Art Production Editor of the American ELLE magazine for a decade. In 2000, Andrea Legge co-founded the collaborative studio Legge Lewis Legge that focuses on public art and architecture.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
In the Bike Lane by Andrea Legge
Presented with New York Cares
Fort Hamilton Parkway between E. 5th St and Park Circle, Brooklyn
Amy Madden’s design showcases the changing seasons and the unique, natural environment of each season. It is “a design inspired by wildflowers, meadow grasses and garbage.”
30 volunteers painted alongside the artist over a single day in October. The barriers, separating cyclists and pedestrians from vehicular traffic, measure approximately 1000 feet in length and are adjacent to Prospect Park. The project was made possible with support from NY Cares in partnership with DOT and the Mayor’s Community Affairs Unit.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
Seasonal References by Amy Madden
Presented with New York Cares
Fort Hamilton Parkway between Park Circle and Prospect Ave, Brooklyn
NYCDOT held an international design competition to select a design to beautify the new pedestrian plazas in Times Square while awaiting a full redesign and permanent build-out. A jury, including representatives from the Times Square Alliance, the Mayor's Office and the Design Commission as well as an outside artist selected Cool Water, Hot Island from over 150 submissions and it was installed in July 2010.
Artist Molly Dilworth, best known in New York for her rooftop paintings, designed the mural based on the urban "heat-island effect," where cities tend to experience warmer temperatures than rural settings. The blues and light shades of the design reflect more sunlight and absorb less heat—improving the look of the popular pedestrian areas while also making it more comfortable places to sit.
Support was provided by donations made to the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City. The Mayor's Fund is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting innovative public-private partnerships and projects such as those of the DOT. Photos are courtesy of the Times Square Alliance.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Special Project
Cool Water, Hot Island by Molly Dilworth
Presented with Times Square Alliance and reNEWable Times Square
Broadway between 42nd and 47th Streets, Manhattan
New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan and Mayor Edward I. Koch hosted a special reading of Eddie Shapes Up, a children’s book written by the mayor, and launched Walk Ways, a new program that helps schools establish the importance of active transportation and gives them the resources to encourage walking among students. Schools can visit nyc.gov/dot to register, download lesson plans and connect with DOT safety educators for guidance and to develop tailored walk-to-school route plans. The Commissioner and Mayor joined fourth and fifth graders from P.S. 64 in Manhattan’s East Village for the event.
“With unprecedented safety redesigns and educational initiatives in all five boroughs, our streets are shaping up for New Yorkers of all ages to walk and bike more,” said DOT Commissioner Sadik-Khan. “By teaching students the benefits of active transportation, we’re helping them build healthy habits for life.”
“The most marvelous sight in New York City is to see youngsters, adolescents and adults cycling on the many bicycle paths we now have which separate bikers from vehicular traffic,” said Mayor Koch. “It is glorious to watch, and I wish I were young again to participate.”
Summer Streets takes place on consecutive Saturdays in the summer (the 2011 dates are August 6, 13 and 20) from 7:00 am - 1:00 pm. The 2010 route connects the Brooklyn Bridge with Central Park with recommended connections along low-traffic streets to the Hudson River Greenway, Harlem and Governors Island allowing participants to plan a route as long or short as they wish.
This event takes a valuable public space - our City's streets - and opens them up to people to play, walk, bike, and breathe. Summer Streets provides more space for healthy recreation and is a part of NYC's greening initiative by encouraging New Yorkers to use more sustainable forms of transportation.
Modeled on other events from around the world including Bogotá, Colombia's Ciclovia, Paris, France's Paris Plage, and even New York's own Museum Mile, this event will be part bike tour, part block party, a great time for exercise, people watching, and just enjoying summer mornings.
Visit nyc.gov/summerstreets for more information.
Concrete jersey barriers become canvases for colorful designs making in-between spaces come to life with the implementation of four artist-designed murals in on 150 barriers in one weekend during the spring of 2010.
"Moving Forward," "NYCamo," "Food in Transit," and "Anchovies along the FDR Drive" were painted by more than 300 New York Cares volunteers on barriers lining pedestrian paths and bike lanes in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Manhattan.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
Food in Transit by Sage & Coombe Architects
Presented with New York Cares and the Montefiore Monshulu Community Center
Baychester Avenue and Bartow Avenue, Bronx
Curator Sam Barzilay collaborated with numerous international artists to create a 340-foot photographic fence installation titled, Superheroes. Each of the selected photographers approached the subject of superheroes as an allegory for a deeper exploration of a social issue, whether it was gender roles, unsung heroes, the desire of humanity to believe in super powers, or a memory of our lost childhood. Barzilay and the United Photo Industries team collaborated over the past three years to produce this installation.
United Photo Industries, the DUMBO Improvement District and the NYCDOT Urban Art Program partnered to bring this project to fruition. Superheroes will be displayed around the Manhattan Bridge Anchorage in Dumbo from August 9, 2012 until the end of the year. The following artists’ works are exhibited at this site: Maleonn (China), David Graham (United Kingdom), Alex Gross (USA), Walter Iraheta (El Salvador), Susanne Middelbery (Netherlands), Dulce Pinzon (Mexico/USA), Gregg Segal (USA), Nicolas Silberfaden (Argentina/USA), and Astrid Verhoef (Netherlands).
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Arterventions
Superheroes curated by Sam Barzilay with various international artists
DUMBO Business Improvement District and United Photo Industries
Manhattan Bridge Anchorage, Dumbo, Brooklyn