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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.
Andrew Albert, Nathan Lloyd, Darlene Jackson.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA)
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
Moving Forward by Lucy Kalian
Presented with New York Cares, Brooklyn Greenway Initiative and Brooklyn Navy Yard
Williamsburg Street West between Kent and Flushing Aves, Brooklyn
On August 18, 2015, NYCDOT's Mobility Management Program invited travel trainers and mobility specialists to a Travel Training/Orientation and Mobility Workshop on Street Furniture. The goal of the workshop was to share DOT practices on street furniture and obtain feedback from educators on best practices and challenges.
See more of what our Mobility Management Program is doing here: on.nyc.gov/1hLaSit
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)
NYC DOT hosted a Safe Kids Day event at the Bergen Beach Sports Complex in Brooklyn on Saturday, May 7, 2016.
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
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)
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.
The Department of Transportation's Urban Art Program, the Brooklyn Arts Council, the Red Hook Initiative and artists Valeria Bianco, Shagun Singh and Michelle Brick present Silent Lights, a light installation that is activated by the surrounding sounds of traffic. The five gateway structures are installed on the sidewalk at Navy Street and Park Avenue in Brooklyn. The structural elements line the pedestrian pathway and LED lights have been mounted to these structures. As cars make noise, the installation visualizes the noise by illuminating the metal panels in different colors allowing passersby to see the noise in various patterns rather than just hearing the noise. The artists aim to bring awareness to noise pollution within the surrounding community.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Silent Lights by Valeria Bianco, Shagun Singh and Michelle Brick
Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership
Sidewalk, Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership
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
Adopt a Highway Beautification groups Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. and KBS Brooklyn Sigma volunteer to clean up Brooklyn!
Made from galvanized, durable ductile iron, meter racks easily slide on to former parking meter posts that have had their heads removed following DOT’s installation of new, user-friendly muni meters. By taking advantage of already-installed infrastructure, the meter racks eliminate the cost of removing old posts combined with the cost of installing an entirely new bike rack.
The new meter rack’s design is based on the standard “Hoop” rack designed by Ian Mahaffy and Maarten De Greeve, which was selected as the winner of a DOT and Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum-sponsored competition in 2008.
6,000 racks will be installed at meters citywide to help meet the city's growing demand for public bike parking.
Location: connecting City Island with Rodman's Neck in Pelham Bay Park, Bronx NYC
Carry: 3 road lanes of City Island Road, with sidewalks
Type: through truss (central swing section was converted to fixed spans in 1963)
Opened: 4 July 1901 (rehabilitated 1977)
Average daily traffic volumes (2008): 16,000
Note: Current bridge to be replaced by a cable-stayed bridge (project scheduled to start in 2011).
Artists Clare Herron and Chris Beck created this artwork in partnership with Groundswell Community Mural Project’s TEMA (Teen Empowerment Mural Apprenticeship) and fifteen youth. The mural uses paint, printed parachute cloth, and mosaics to depict the process of pollination and show its significance on a larger scale in a visual narrative 200 feet in length.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Worker Bees by Clare Herron and Chris Beck
Presented with Groundswell Community Mural Project and Downtown Brooklyn Partnership
Tillary Street and Adams Street, Brooklyn
High winds during Hurricane Sandy damaged traffic signals in Lower Manhattan.
Photo: NYC Department of Transportation / Alex Engel
New York, NY July 27, 2013: The Art Installation of the New York City Summer Streets "Voice Tunnel" by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is tested in the Park Avenue Tunnel on July 27th, 2013. Voice Tunnel is the signature event of Summer Streets 2013. {Photo by Julie Hau for the DOT)
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.
Andrew Albert, Darlene Jackson.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA)
Artists Clare Herron and Chris Beck created this artwork in partnership with Groundswell Community Mural Project’s TEMA (Teen Empowerment Mural Apprenticeship) and fifteen youth. The mural uses paint, printed parachute cloth, and mosaics to depict the process of pollination and show its significance on a larger scale in a visual narrative 200 feet in length.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Worker Bees by Clare Herron and Chris Beck
Presented with Groundswell Community Mural Project and Downtown Brooklyn Partnership
Tillary Street and Adams Street, Brooklyn
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 July 21, 2015, our summer interns visited the Asphalt Plant on Hamilton Avenue in Brooklyn for a tour of how the DOT creates and distributes asphalt.
Debra Hampton’s "Face to Face" was selected from a pool of 60 applicants during the fall 2010 Barrier Beautification Open Call. To create this design, Debra Hampton cut images from magazine ads found in the City and silhouetted these forms to create stunning patterns stylized in similar fashion to Art Nouveau works of the 1930s.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
Face to Face by Debra Hampton
Presented with New York Cares
Furman St between Joralemon and Montague Sts, Brooklyn
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
The NYC DOT is piloting multi-function Muni-Meters for the first time. These meters can be used for both commercial and passenger vehicles transactions at the same time.
NYC DOT billboard "He stopped at the corner. The driver didn't." along Queens Blvd and Continental Ave, Queens, NY.
On Friday, August 28, 2015, NYC DOT joined Groundswell to unveil the beautiful new Vision Zero mural created by local young artists, and on display along 5th Ave., Park Slope, Brooklyn.
“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
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
Moving Forward by Lucy Kalian
Presented with New York Cares, Brooklyn Greenway Initiative and Brooklyn Navy Yard
Williamsburg Street West between Kent and Flushing Aves, Brooklyn
NYC DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg joined UNICEF, NYPD Chief Chan, Zoleka Mandela, WHO and Michelle Yeoh joined together to #SaveKidsLives with road safety.
The NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Design Trust for Public Space will release Under the Elevated: Reclaiming Space, Connecting Communities, a report offering environmentally, financially sustainable, and versatile ways to redesign and maintain spaces beneath New York City’s nearly 700 miles of elevated bridges, highways, subway tracks and rail lines. The findings reflect how these multi-jurisdictional public spaces, approximately four times the size of Central Park, can be transformed into valuable community assets that address complex problems of noise, air pollution, lighting, and safety.
Urban Garden, an installation made up entirely of recycled bike parts, was unveiled during the centennial celebration of the Queensboro Bridge that included a “Learn to Ride” bike class, a bike parade, and a birthday party for the bridge. The installation enlivened the sidewalk and demonstrated how public art can be used to communicate important issues such as sustainability as well as mobility. The artist, Pasqualina Azzarello, worked with high school students from the Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement House to design the flowers and animals that were later crafted by a trained welder. Each student received a used bike from Recycle-a-Bicycle for their participation.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Urban Garden by Pasqualina Azzarello
Presented with Recycle-A-Bicycle and Jacob-Riis Neighborhood Settlement House
Vernon Boulevard at Queens Plaza South, Queens
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
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
Moving Forward by Lucy Kalian
Presented with New York Cares, Brooklyn Greenway Initiative and Brooklyn Navy Yard
Williamsburg Street West between Kent and Flushing Aves, Brooklyn
Artist Steed Taylor transformed the Naples Terrace Step Street with The Bridge &The Devil. Two unique designs run up and down the staircase creating two separate pedestrian experiences. The installation draws reference to the 17th century Kingsbridge and the Spuyten Duyvil Creek it once crossed. Steed reminds New Yorkers of the tumultuous relationship that once existed at this site between man and nature. Much like the intertwining design, the mural draws attention to man’s enduring desire to tame and mold New York City’s geography to suit one’s needs. In shedding light on old New York, Taylor hopes to educate those who use this step street on a daily basis with his historically-based, site-responsive mural.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
The Bridge & The Devil by Steed Taylor
Visual Aids for the Arts
Step Street, Naples Terrace between Broadway and Goodwin Terrace, Bronx, NY
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.”
With the Artervention 69 Meters, Magda Sayeg transformed 69 average parking meters into a beautiful work of art by wrapping each in a knitted creation. Montague Street Business Improvement District, engaged work with Knitta Please, and 50 volunteers to fabricate the yarn cozies for Montague Street in Brooklyn. Each sleeve took about 2-3 hours to make and 15 minutes to install. By adding interest to the street, the Montague Street BID supported local merchants.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Artervention
69 Meters by Magda Sayeg
Presented with Montague Business Improvement District
Montague Street, Brooklyn