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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
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
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.
LOVE TV, by Australian artist Rebecca McIntosh and art producer Victoria Johnstone, blended visual art, performance art and a talk show to invite New Yorkers to share their stories of life and love in New York City. LOVE TV explored the identity of people, places and diversity through the universal subject of love. The program followed artist Rebecca McIntosh, who posed as goddess Aphrodite, as she spoke with celebrities, musicians, historians, artists, local heroes and the public in her hot pink TV-shaped mobile studio. The performance encouraged creative conversation and provided the community with a chance to reclaim public space.
By partnering with artists like Rebecca McIntosh, DOT’s Urban Art Program aimed to enhance and enrich the public’s experience at Summer Streets, a three day closure of Park Avenue for recreation held on Saturdays in August. The LOVE TV performances took place at Foley Square and Centre Street at Pearl Street. Performances were also held as part of Weekend Walks in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Summer Streets
LOVE TV by Rebecca McIntosh and Victoria Johnstone
Foley Square and Centre Street at Pearl Street, Manhattan
The Battery Park Underpass was flooded and damaged in Hurricane Sandy.
Photo: NYC Department of Transportation / Alex Engel
On August 5, 2015, NYC DOT's Queens Borough Planner Vikram Sinha, along with Council Member Daniel Dromm and Council Member Julissa Ferreras, announced that DOT Road Repair and Maintenance Crews completed the resurfacing of 37th Avenue from the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway to Junction Boulevard.
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 a 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, Navy Street and Park Avenue, Brooklyn
On Tuesday, June 30, 2015 NYC DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg joined Meera Joshi Chair of the Taxi and Limousine Commission, and Nilda Mesa, Director of the Mayor's Office of Sustainability to discuss Intro 842 and Intro 847 with NYC City Council's Committee on Transportation.
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
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
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
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
In fall 2012, DOT cut the ribbon on a comprehensive redesign of Manhattan’s Delancey Street on the Lower East Side. One of the latest in a series of safety projects citywide, the project shortened pedestrian crossings at 14 locations, increased pedestrian space and crossing time, and enhanced signal timing and travel lanes for vehicles entering and exiting the Williamsburg Bridge.
The redesign adds more than 21,000 square feet of pedestrian space along the street, restricts several vehicle turns and also makes travel lanes more consistent. A new vehicle access point at Clinton Street also simplifies the connection from the FDR Drive, eliminating the need for vehicles to travel through residential streets to reach the bridge via Norfolk Street.
Learn more: on.nyc.gov/PGt5tO
New York Cares and Community Roots Charter School coordinated a family painting day with support from the Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project and Livable Streets Education to implement the first NYCDOT pavement mural. Brooklyn-based muralist Ellie Balk collaborated with art teacher Leslie Elvin and her students to design a colorful abstract map with a striped path that meanders through circle mandalas and reflects drawings made by the students after learning about street safety.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Artervention
Liveable Streets by Ellie Balk
Presented with Liveable Streets Education
Edwards Street, Brooklyn
The Animus Art Collective, made up of Preston Dane, Annie Vainchenker, and David Ort, worked with NYCDOT and the Action Arts League in the creation of Dream Outside the Box. The Animus Art Collective created the sculpture by building various sized red, white, and blue boxes stacked and interlocked with one other. Together, the painted boxes of plywood were a sculptural representation of the American flag. In addition to NYCDOT and AAL, New York City school children from P.S. 163 contributed to the fabrication of this project by coming up with their own versions of the American dream which were engraved on to the boxes by the artists.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Dream Outside the Box by Animus Art Collective
Presented with Action Arts League
97th St between Amsterdam and Columbus Aves, Manhattan
On Monday, April 13, 2015 the NYC DOT #VisionZero Street Team launched the Spring Street Team season with with NYPD 108th Precinct to educate and inform pedestrians, cyclists and drivers about safety on our streets. Our team was at Van Dam Street & Queens Blvd., Queens during the morning rush hour.
Learn more: www.nyc.gov/html/visionzero/pages/initiatives/outreach.shtml
Lincoln Road Serape is a 70-foot weaving of plastic ribbons installed on a chain link fence that creates a colorful swathe connecting two neighborhoods surrounding the Lincoln Road footbridge. The installation is based on the diamond shapes and patterns woven by Navajo craftspeople.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Lincoln Road Serape by Katherine Daniels
Presented with LinRoFORMA
Lincoln Rd between Flatbush and Ocean Aves, 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)
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)
Mayor Bill de Blasio, New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Polly Trottenberg, and New York State Senate co-leader Jeffrey Klein today announced the expanded installation of speed cameras citywide near schools, as part of Mayor de Blasio’s Vision Zero plan. The announcement was made outside P.S. 95, located at the intersection of Sedgwick and Hillman Avenue in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, an area classified by DOT as a high-crash corridor.
Read the full press release here: on.nyc.gov/1Ba7F0e
DOT's Special Events and Arterial Maintenance teams assisted in the placement of NYPD concrete blocks on the perimeter of Times Square in preparation for the 2015 Times Square New Year's Eve event!
Also included in this album are photos of the DOT Special Events team monitoring utility repairs in Times Square.
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.
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
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.”