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"A water work for Ozone Park."
Artist Corinne Ulmann’s design of delicate-looking lily pads floats amongst a sea of blues. Painted on barriers separating two-way traffic, the mural measures approximately 100 feet in length. Corinne Ulmann worked alongside 30 volunteers to implement this design on both sides of the barrier site creating a sculptural landscape for the residents of Ozone Park.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
Reflecting Pond by Corinne Ulmann
Presented with New York Cares
97th and Centreville Streets, Queens
Swirling path rising
and falling
a ribbon of forest
passing by
Approximately 600 feet of concrete wall along the Manhattan Bridge Ramp in Brooklyn have been brought to life with artist Abby Goldstein’s engaging play of color and pattern. Her design refers to both the natural world and the built environment with cast shadows of botanical forms and a background of repeated blues and greens in a staggered pattern.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
Design submission by Abby Goldstein
Presented with New York Cares
Sands Street and Jay Street, Brooklyn
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
Sam Holleran’s design evokes a fanciful picture-book impression of nature. Nature and man-made intertwine; trees resemble spherical street lighting while rocky outcroppings resemble chunks of baking chocolate. The artist’s design covers 660 feet of concrete barrier along Columbia Street near Brooklyn Bridge Park, Van Voorhees Park, and the Brooklyn Queens Expressway.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
Design submission by Sam Holleran
Presented with New York Cares
Columbia St between Atlantic Ave and Congress St, Brooklyn
People and birds were invited to relax with one another in the art installation entitled Welcomed Guests. Ten functional seats, with attached birdhouses, were placed in Red Hook by artist Atom Cianfarani. He used locally found materials, such as burgundy barrels and recycled plastic lunch trays, to create the unique birdhouses. The North Fork Vineyard and Winery provided the wine barrels and Added Value provided access to water via the Red Hook Community Farm. The artwork transformed the public space into a seating area between IKEA, the community farm, and a local park.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Welcomed Guests by Atom Cianfarani
Presented with Lower East Side Ecology Center and Added Value
Columbia Street and Halleck Street, Red Hook, 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
“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
Mall-terations is a temporary art installation created to activate three pedestrian malls and celebrate the history of immigration on the Lower East Side. It also honored the co-naming of Allen Street as the Avenue of the Immigrants. Elements of the installation include five colorful benches that turn on wheels like compasses, neighborhood maps and historical timelines about immigration to both the Lower East Side and Chinatown along with the development of the Allen Street Corridor.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Mall-terations by Carolina Cisneros, Marcelo Ertorteguy, Mateo Pinto and Sara Valente
Presented with Hester Street Collaborative
Allen Street between Houston and Delancey Streets, Manhattan
Artist Marcie Paper constructs her paintings from short term memories derived from her immediate surroundings. Her abstract, delicate pattern serves to both mirror the barrier’s surrounding environment, while setting into motion an up-to-the-minute visual sensory cue for those that encounter the mural. Her design will be implemented on barriers running along a vital bike lane located near both the Brooklyn War Memorial and the Korean War Veteran’s Plaza.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
Design submission by Marcie Paper
Presented with New York Cares
Tillary St between Cadman Plaza West and Adams St, 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
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
100% plant-based stickers with water-based adhesive and vegetable-based inks - label can be writted on and dissolves when exposed to water, NYC stickers
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
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.
React, Respect, Intersect 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 depicts a utopian environment where vehicular traffic, pedestrians of all ages and abilities, bicyclists, skateboarders, and animals respectfully share the street. It focuses not only on traffic and pedestrian safety education, but also site-specific themes and cultural diversity.
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
React, Respect, Intersect by Yana Dimitrova and Adam Kidder
Presented with NYCDOT Safety Education and Groundswell Community Mural Project
East 5th Street in Kensington, Brooklyn
Jennifer Cecere’s "Antimacassars" was selected from a pool of 60 applicants during the fall 2010 Barrier Beautification Open Call. Keeping in line with recent work, Jennifer Cecere painted a range of doilies to disguise the rough irregular concrete with delicate but bold symmetrical forms.
Jennifer Cecere is a New York-based artist and teacher. She has produced a number of large-scale doily installations at local art venues including Socrates Sculpture Park, Rockland Center for the Arts and Pratt Institute’s Sculpture Garden.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
Antimacassars by Jennifer Cecere
Presented with New York Cares
FDR Service Drive North between 35th and 37th Sts, Manhattan
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
“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
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
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
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
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
NY Camo by Nick Courtelis
Presented with New York Cares, Pratt Institute and LaGuardia Community College
Queens Boulevard between Jackson and Skillman Aves, Queens
“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
Transforming Your Transit to Tranquility
A mural designed by Chris Beck and Tanya Albrightsen-Frable was painted onto the Tillary Street barriers in the spring of 2011. The process of creating the new mural began in the fall of 2010 as part of Groundswell’s Teen Empowerment Mural Apprenticeship (TEMA) program, which trains young people as apprentice artists.
Chris Beck and Tanya Albrightsen-Frable’s mural depicts a precisely painted sheet of paper transforming from a paper airplane into box, into a flower, and then into a boat. It is designed to be read from either direction of oncoming traffic, like a palindrome. It introduces a dynamic energy to the streetscape, enhancing the experience of drivers, bikers, and pedestrians passing the barrier and strikes a particularly local note by exhibiting significant pieces of Brooklyn architecture throughout the path of the single sheet of paper.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
Tillary Street Barrier Art by Chris Beck and Tanya Albrightsen-Frable
Presented with Groundswell Community Mural Project
Tillary Street north of Adams Street, Brooklyn
Magda Sayeg, founder of Knitta, takes knitting out of the home and onto the streets. In Plan Ahead, she intricately weaves a playful message to pedestrians, bikers, and drivers onto an ordinary fence using colorful yarn. The message – to plan ahead – is reinforced by the artist’s choice to shrink the last to letters of the phrase and bend them vertically into only the small bit of space left over at the end of the installation, as if writing in a notebook and running out of space. Plan Ahead directs viewers' attention to Brooklyn's waterfront environment and examines the occasionally contentious, often harmonious relationship between nature and constructed space.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Plan Ahead by Magda Sayeg
Presented with North Brooklyn Public Art Coalition and Open Space Alliance
Kent Avenue between South 5th St and South 6th St, Brooklyn
Intersection, a colorful, site-specific mural was produced by three artists, Heidy Garay, Mikell Fine Isles and Sam Vernon, in partnership with the Dumbo Business Improvement District for a corrugated metal fence on Front Street in Dumbo. This mural symbolizes the constant movement of DUMBO. The curved lines, painted in seven distinct colors, play on the straight, unwavering lines of the corrugated metal fence. The piece is meant to brighten the landscape underneath the Manhattan Bridge, while referencing the New York City Subway map as well as the cross-sections of cultures in this neighborhood.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Intersection by Heidy Garay, Mikell Fine Isles, and Sam Vernon
Presented with DUMBO Business Improvement District
Front and Adams Streets, 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
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
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
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
Days before New York City turned back its clocks, a team from NYC DOT went out to the Manhattan Bridge bike path to stop cyclists who were riding without lights. Free front (white) and rear (red) lights were given to riders in need - and just in time for dusk!
DYK that cyclists in NYC are required by law to wear front (white) and rear (red) lights from dusk to dawn? So lighten up!
The acronym “CHANGE” stands for “Change happens as new growth evolves” for FIT students Valentina Burzanovic, Anne Mailey, Camilla Mayer , Ana Misenas, and Jason Mitja. The group designed a mural to portray the evolution of communication from paper to computer technology with visual elements representing extended tree branches intertwined with a brightly-colored background.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
CHANGE by FIT Students
Presented with 34th Street Partnership
West 31st St between 9th Ave and Dyer Ave, Manhattan
During the 17th century, the corner of Bergen and Smith Streets in Brooklyn was a cornfield cultivated by the local Marechkawich Indians. Maize Field was a garden that grew corn, bean, and squash varieties all of which were originally grown by the native people of this region. Artist Christina Kelly calls upon the historical reference while updating the piece in a contemporary way by “greening the street corner.” An extra benefit of this installation is the seating and meeting space created by the granite blocks containing the soil of the garden in this community.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Maize Field by Christina Kelly
Presented with Boerum Hill Association and Invisible Dog Gallery
Bergen Street and Smith Street, Brooklyn
For more than 15 years, Staten Island based artist, Victoria Munro has exhibited her photographic and sculptural works internationally, working between Auckland, New Zealand and the U.S. In the installation called Container Series, Munro focuses intently on color bringing vibrant colors to the Grand Staircase Plaza at Staten Island’s St. George Ferry Terminal.
The aluminum strips, affixed securely to the vertical elevations of the stairs leading up to the Plaza, are meant to mirror the shapes and colors of the shipping containers that pass through the NY waterways. Munro believes color is inextricably linked to structures and materials and her work seeks to highlight this relationship. Container Series broadens this investigation to include an exploration of geometric form and function. The artist goes on to describe that “the context and histories of transporting cargo create shifting meaning in the work, suggesting models of other ways of being, cultural blending, and future possibilities and destinations, which are yet to be discovered.”
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Container Series by Victoria Munro
Presented with Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island
Grand Staircase Plaza, St. George Ferry Terminal, Staten Island
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 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.
Magda Sayeg, founder of Knitta, takes knitting out of the home and onto the streets. In Plan Ahead, she intricately weaves a playful message to pedestrians, bikers, and drivers onto an ordinary fence using colorful yarn. The message – to plan ahead – is reinforced by the artist’s choice to shrink the last to letters of the phrase and bend them vertically into only the small bit of space left over at the end of the installation, as if writing in a notebook and running out of space. Plan Ahead directs viewers' attention to Brooklyn's waterfront environment and examines the occasionally contentious, often harmonious relationship between nature and constructed space.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Plan Ahead by Magda Sayeg
Presented with North Brooklyn Public Art Coalition and Open Space Alliance
Kent Avenue between South 5th St and South 6th St, Brooklyn