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The abstract sculpture, Aurora, fabricated by artist Diego Medina, was inspired by the Spanish poet Frederico Garcia Lorca. Medina interlocked geometric shapes, pillars an arch and a star, so that when the sculpture is viewed from various angles, it takes on different shapes and forms. Though NYCDOT, BRAC, and Medina worried that individuals might mark the sculpture with graffiti, it remained unscathed throughout the installation period. The sculpture created a focal point in what was once a barren plaza.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Aurora by Diego Medina
Presented with Bronx River Arts Center
East Tremont Avenue and Boston Road, Bronx
DOT employees repair the Battery Park Underpass in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
Photo: NYC Department of Transportation / Alex Engel
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
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.
Artist John Chadwell has partnered with the NYCDOT Art Program and the Kew Gardens Improvement Association, Inc. to present the mural “Eastbound, Westbound” along the 82nd Avenue Bridge at Grenfell and Austin Streets in Kew Gardens, Queens. The eastbound side of the mural is a scenic view of the Montauk/Orient Point Long Island shoreline while the westbound side of the mural depicts the Manhattan skyline. The project aims to beautify, activate and enliven a pedestrian walkway.
NYCDOT Art Program, Community Commissions
Eastbound Westbound by John Chadwell
82nd Avenue Bridge, Grenfell and Austin Streets, Kew Gardens, Queens
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
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 is to be implemented on 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
Location: Washington Heights in Manhattan to Highbridge in the Bronx NYC
Carry: 8 road lanes of I-95 and US 1
Type: 2 parallel steel arches with concrete and steel girder approach viaducts
Opened: 1963
First visited: 16 September 2006
The Animus Art Collective’s installation, Flaming Cactus, transforms ordinary streetscapes through the use of vibrantly colored zip ties affixed to street poles. Originally installed at FIGMENT 2011 on Governors Island, the installation brought its playful energy and whimsy to Astor Place in Manhattan.
The zip ties, once wrapped and locked around the street poles, have tails of excess material. These tails create the effect of cactus needles sprouting from the trunk of the street poles.
In an interview for the Figment Project, Animus co-founder, Preston Dane said, “Our hope is to show that adding art to a community or space doesn’t require a lot of resources, formal education, or even money. Creativity is something we’re all capable of.”
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Artervention
Flaming Cactus by Animus Art
Presented with Figment Project
Lafayette Street and 4th Avenue, 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
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.
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.
“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
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
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.
“Do you hear the clank of the muskets… The years recede, pavement and stately house disappear… In the midst of you stands an encampment very old.” -excerpts of The Centenarian’s Story by Walt Whitman describing the Battle of Brooklyn
On a hill, above the site of the Battle of Brooklyn stands “Battle Pass” an artistic intervention by Sasha Chavchavadze. This project was inspired by the revolutionary “Liberty Poles” that were derived from British maypoles and erected by Revolutionaries as a symbol of their resistance.
“Liberty Poles” typically reached 46 feet and were made of pine. “Battle Pass” is 16 feet high and topped with a metal weathervane. Three directional signs, containing excerpts from Walt Whitman’s The Centenarian’s Story, point toward the Gowanus Canal, Manhattan, and the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Court Street from where it is said George Washington observed the Battle of Brooklyn.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Arterventions
Battle Pass by Sasha Chavchavadze
Presented with Proteus Gowanus
Bergen Street and Smith Street, Brooklyn
On September 14, 2011, DOT selected Alta Bicycle Share to run NYC's new bike share system.
Bike share is a privately-funded & operated, city-supported, program that adds a new affordable option to getting around New York City. Think Zipcar with bikes, and you don’t have to bring the bike back to where you started! Alta Bicycle Share will run, manage and maintain the bike share system, while NYC DOT will coordinate community outreach and regulate station siting.
The NYCDOT Art Program partnered with the International Studio and Curatorial Program to present Egyptian artist Mohamed Sharkawy’s work “Birds,” a series of six decorative panels along the corrugated metal fence at Vernon Boulevard and Queens Plaza South in Long Island City, Queens. Inspired by Egyptian wall painting, Sharkawy reduces each form into flat silhouettes in order to render recognizable images. The fanciful bird scenes reference the lives of birds that migrate through New York annually. Sharkawy’s birds express freedom and movement along with stillness and meditation.
NYCDOT Art Program, Community Commissions
Birds by Mohamed Sharkawy
Vernon Boulevard and Queens Plaza South, Queens
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.
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.
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)
"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
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
DOT dump trucks clear debris -- Breezy Point in the Rockaways, Queens.
Photo: NYC Department of Transportation / Stephen Mallon.
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 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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Horsing Around the Arrows of Time is a colorful tribute to the DUMBO neighborhood’s industrial and manufacturing past. DUMBO-based artist, Eleanora Kupencow, chose to situate her work in this particular location because of the contrast between the bright-colored sculptures and the surrounding streetscape. The sculptures were previously exhibited at the United Nations Hammarskjold Plaza.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Artervention
Horsing Around the Arrows of Time by Eleanora Kupencow
Presented with DUMBO Business Improvement District
Pearl Street, Anchorage Place, and Water Street, Brooklyn
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