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“As we look ahead to a more prosperous future, [For Closure is] a beacon of hope constructed from the access point of homes lost: the front door.” –artist Gabriela Salazar
Assembled from locally salvaged doors, “For Closure” provides a sense of closure for those still reeling from the recent collapse of our unstable financial structure based on an inflated housing market. The playful concept of a house of cards acts as a monument to the rebuilding of our economy and our homes.
Gabriela Salazar’s work concerns our relationships with the constructed environment engaging architecture, text, sculpture, and drawing. This is Salazar’s second iteration of “For Closure.” It is also the second NYCDOT Urban Art installation programmed at West Farms Plaza which is a designated priority site for public art.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Arterventions
For Closure by Gabriela Salazar
Presented with Bronx River Art Center
East Tremont Avenue and Boston Road, Bronx
To enhance the appearance of the Whitehall Terminal during construction of Peter Minuit Plaza the NYC DOT Urban Art Program partnered with the Port Authority of NY & NJ and Tully Construction to present Garden City, designed by Sage & Coombe Architects. A vibrant banner was draped across the chain-link fence enclosing the construction site. The banner enhanced and enlivened the pedestrian experience while moving through this public space. Even though New Yorkers walk through the concrete jungle of Manhattan every day, Garden City transported passersby from the monotony of New York to a beautiful, natural oasis.
Sage & Coombe Architects were chosen from hundreds of applicants as part of a blind competition. By incorporating landmark buildings, key destinations and the history of lower Manhattan within the banner, pedestrians were also able to connect and identify with the banner.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Special Projects
Garden City by Sage and Combe Architects
Port Authority of New York & New Jersey and Tully Construction
Whitehall Ferry Terminal, Whitehall Street and State Street, Manhattan
In 1996, Ruth Lande Shuman founded Publicolor, a NYC-based youth development organization which uses color, collaboration, and design to engage at-risk students in their education and communities. The inspiration for this Publicolor project is the Fibonacci series, a math sequence in which each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers, expressing the synergetic relationship between time and motion.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Color and Collaboration: A Fibonacci Series by Ruth Lande Shuman
Presented with Publicolor
21st St between 47th and 49th Rds, Queens
"Interlocking gears are a metaphor for the relationship between pedestrians, bicycles and automobiles, as the successful functioning of our transportation system relies on the predictable motion from each part, which in turn directly influences the motion of its immediate interlocking part."
Artist Eugenie Tung’s design of brightly colored spokes and gears rotate and turn as cyclists ride along this barrier site. Eugenie Tung worked alongside 200 volunteers to paint this mural measuring approximately 1400 feet in length.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
Teeth and Grooves by Eugenie Tung
Presented with New York Cares
Flushing Ave between Williamsburg St West and Washington St, 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 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
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
Christian Marche’s sculpture of found metal objects, welded in abstract form and painted a matte silver, sits directly above the Bronx’s busy Grand Concourse. The size of Marche’s sculpture – measuring 10 feet tall and 16 square feet at its base – complements the sheer size of this intersection. The found objects, collected locally throughout New York City, provide an opportunity to discuss recycling and the perception of refused versus reused. Among the found objects are a taxi cab door, a flattened shopping cart, a refrigerator, and various bicycle parts.
Christian Marche is a Bronx-based artist, welder, machinist, and educator. With this installation, Marche seeks to provide a physical image for the hopes and dreams that people associate with material goods, which inevitably find their way into our landfills.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Silver by Christian Marche
Presented with Fordham Road Business Improvement District and Al Johnson Art
Fordham Road and Grand Concourse, Bronx
August 9, 2014-New York City-Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today signed a bill authorizing New York City to lower its speed limits from 30 to 25 miles per hour. The legislation seeks to lower the number of vehicle and pedestrian accidents in New York City and supports the State’s ongoing effort to make roadways safer.
The New York City Department of Transportation’s Art Program recently produced, “The 191st Street Tunnel Beautification Project,” at 191st Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Local Washington Heights artist Andrea Von Bujdoss (Queen Andrea), who specializes in typography, Fernando Carlo, Jr. (COPE 2), a recognized graffiti artist within the community, Nick Kuzsyk, a geometric design specialist, Nelson Rivas (Cekis), a Chilean-born muralist, and Jessie Unterhalter and Katey Truhn, Maryland-based public artists, were selected from a pool of 158 applicants, to each paint two, 200 foot long wall segments within the pedestrian Tunnel. The five murals add bright color and unique design to the 900 foot long space, which was formerly covered in graffiti tags and bland tan paint. Over the course of a week, each artist has left his or her mark within Washington Heights, aiming to create a safer and more beautified passageway for the thousands of pedestrians walking through it on a daily basis to access the 1 subway line.
NYCDOT Art Program, Special Projects
“Prismatic Power Phrases” by Andrea von Bujdoss (Queen Andrea)
“Caterpillar Time Travel” by Jessie Unterhalter and Katey Truhn
“Warp Zone” by Nick Kuszyk
“It’s like a Jungle Sometimes/Aveces es como una jungle” by Nelson Rivas (Cekis)
“Art is Life” by Fernando Carlo (Cope 2)
In partnership with Northern Manhattan Art Alliance
Special thanks to Alan Ket
191st Street Tunnel, West 191st Street and Broadway, Manhattan
Location: connecting Spring Creek Park, Brooklyn to Rockwood Park, Queens
Carry: multi-lane Shore Parkway / Belt Parkway with sidewalk
Opened: 1940
The Alliance for Downtown New York and the NYCDOT Urban Art Program collaborated to install Richard Pasquarelli’s Secret Gardens on the chain-link fence surrounding the streetscape improvement project from West Street to West Broadway. This banner project was the second of three public art pieces created by Pasquarelli for the Downtown Alliance’s temporary art program that peppered construction sites throughout Lower Manhattan. Secret Gardens was approximately 5-feet in height by 1,000-feet in length.
Pasquarelli commented that he, “wanted to create something that would contrast with the seemingly endless expanse of concrete and wire.” As a jogger, Pasquarelli often briefly glimpsed into small private gardens hidden behind fences, hedges and ivy covered walls. These serene and peaceful images inspired him to create Secret Gardens. These images seek to transport the viewer from the concrete jungle of Manhattan to a tranquil oasis.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Special Projects
Secret Gardens by Richard Pasquarelli
Alliance for Downtown New York
Chambers Street between West Street and West Broadway, Manhattan
Internationally-acclaimed Spanish artist dEmo presents his vibrantly-dressed interpretation of Michelangelo’s David to Gaslight Plaza at the southwest corner of 14th Street and 9th Avenue in Manhattan. The sculpture, which stands 24 feet tall, has been dressed in the mitic Missoni zig-zag by Italian designer Luca Missoni. “Homage to the Classic” was previously exhibited in Madrid, Barcelona, and Milan.
dEmo puts a playful spin on his work, which has an unmistakable aesthetic rooted in Pop Art. “Homage to the Classic” brings together the high culture of Renaissance art with that of contemporary Italian fashion in Chelsea, a New York City neighborhood known for its trendy dining, high end boutiques, and contemporary art galleries. The sculpture will remain installed until early September 2012.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Arterventions
Homage to the Classic by dEmo and Missoni
Presented with RogerSmithArts (Roger Smith Hotel)
Gaslight Plaza at 14th Street and 9th Avenue, Manhattan
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
Fourteen female dancers of all ages performed in Whitehall Ferry Terminal to Michael Nyman’s “Fanfare for the Common Man.” The performance was twenty-two minutes long, sequenced to the arrival and departure of the Staten Island Ferry. Performers included: Geraldine Bartlett, Carol Chave, Sarah Chenoweth Kenney, Penelope Dannenberg, Jill Frere, Jackie Ferrara, Naomi Goldberg Haas, Jamie Graham, Mollie Leiber, Sari Nordman, M. Lindsay Smith, Maxine Steinhaus, Judith Chazen Walsh, Rebecca Elizabeth Woll, and Betty Williams.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Artervention
Fanfare by Naomi Goldberg Haas and Dances for Variable Population
Presented with Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Whitehall Ferry Terminal, Manhattan
Staten Island Mural by Abby Goldstein and Michael Koehler created a more colorful commute for Staten Island Ferry passengers by dressing up a chain link fence along the pedestrian walkway leading to the terminal and bus ramps. The 8-foot-tall mural depicts a colorful abstraction of the borough’s shoreline and is coupled with historic images connected to Staten Island and the waterways of New York City.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Special Project
Staten Island Mural by Abby Goldstein and Michael Koehler
Presented with Staten Island Boro President’s Office
St. George Ferry Terminal, Staten Island
"With splashing brushes, for the city to bloom. And when it was done, for her kinfolk, signed – in green, the Mississippi flowed through Gotham."
Julia Whitney Barnes’ design of intertwining roots weaves in and out along a curved path leading to the Harlem River Drive. The barriers, that protect cyclists and pedestrians from vehicular traffic, measure approximately 2000 feet in length.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
Roots/Routes by Julia Whitney Barnes
Presented with New York Cares
West 155th St between Edgecombe Ave and Harlem River Dr, Manhattan
"Interlocking gears are a metaphor for the relationship between pedestrians, bicycles and automobiles, as the successful functioning of our transportation system relies on the predictable motion from each part, which in turn directly influences the motion of its immediate interlocking part."
Artist Eugenie Tung’s design of brightly colored spokes and gears rotate and turn as cyclists ride along this barrier site. Eugenie Tung worked alongside 200 volunteers to paint this mural measuring approximately 1400 feet in length.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
Teeth and Grooves by Eugenie Tung
Presented with New York Cares
Flushing Ave between Williamsburg St West and Washington St, Brooklyn
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.
In 1996, Ruth Lande Shuman founded Publicolor, a NYC-based youth development organization which uses color, collaboration, and design to engage at-risk students in their education and communities. The inspiration for this Publicolor project is the Fibonacci series, a math sequence in which each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers, expressing the synergetic relationship between time and motion.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Color and Collaboration: A Fibonacci Series by Ruth Lande Shuman
Presented with Publicolor
21st St between 47th and 49th Rds, 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
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
NYC DOT, Alta and Citi Announce Agreement to Expand and Enhance Citi Bike Program in New York City
New Firm and Management to Double the Size of the Nation’s Largest Bike Share System to at Least 12,000 Bikes at 700 Stations and in More Neighborhoods by 2017
Learn more: on.nyc.gov/1FVY54A
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
NYC DOT, Transportation Alternative, and community members gathered for a bike ride across the Williamsburg Bridge and into the new Delancey Street Protected bike lane, expected to be a vital connector for thousands of new daily bike commuters in spring 2019 during the L tunnel reconstruction.
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
Artist Marcie Paper constructs her paintings from short term memories derived from her immediate surroundings. Her abstract, delicate pattern serves to mirror the barrier’s surrounding environment while setting into motion an up-to-the-minute visual sensory cue for those that encounter the mural. Marcie Paper’s design has been 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
Approximately 600 feet of concrete wall along the Manhattan Bridge Ramp in Brooklyn will be 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 resembling speed bumps.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
Design submission by Abby Goldstein
Presented with New York Cares
Sands Street and Jay Street, Brooklyn
"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
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
Location: connecting West Maspeth in Queens and Greenpoint in Brooklyn, New York City
Carry: Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (Interstate 278)
Type: Truss Bridge
Opened: 23 April 1939
Average daily traffic volumes (2008): 182,000
"With splashing brushes, for the city to bloom. And when it was done, for her kinfolk, signed – in green, the Mississippi flowed through Gotham."
Julia Whitney Barnes’ design of intertwining roots weaves in and out along a curved path leading to the Harlem River Drive. The barriers, that protect cyclists and pedestrians from vehicular traffic, measure approximately 2000 feet in length.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
Roots/Routes by Julia Whitney Barnes
Presented with New York Cares
West 155th St between Edgecombe Ave and Harlem River Dr, Manhattan
A Collection of Local Memories interprets the history and culture of a small part of Brooklyn through the eyes of local senior citizens. Artist Gabriel “Specter” Reese spoke with this generation of Brooklynites and drew inspiration from photos, illustrations, and archival images to create a visual and narrative “mash up.” Located directly across from Prospect Park and adjacent to an MTA subway entrance, the sculptural installation created an icon for this community. The colorful lifelike imagery united the old and the new, reminding residents of the diversity both then and now.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
A Collection of Local Memories by Gabriel “Specter” Reese
Presented with International Studio and Curatorial Program
Ocean Avenue and Parkside Avenue, 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
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
This guy's partner was out working on a bus stop on Hylan Ave while he took a quick nap. Way to go NYC DOT!
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
"With splashing brushes, for the city to bloom. And when it was done, for her kinfolk, signed – in green, the Mississippi flowed through Gotham."
Julia Whitney Barnes’ design of intertwining roots weaves in and out along a curved path leading to the Harlem River Drive. The barriers, that protect cyclists and pedestrians from vehicular traffic, measure approximately 2000 feet in length.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
Roots/Routes by Julia Whitney Barnes
Presented with New York Cares
West 155th St between Edgecombe Ave and Harlem River Dr, Manhattan
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
I-278 (Gowanus Expressway) westbound approaching exit 24 in Brooklyn. Ugly NYCDOT installed signs with a bubblicious I-278 shield on the right sign.
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.