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The Battery Park Underpass has been completely drained.
Photo: NYC Department of Transportation / Alex Engel
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
Artist Ilona Granet worked with local domestic violence shelters in the creation of her street signs with the aim of aiding the community in its battle against domestic violence. The artist had originally installed a couple of the signs in the Village in the late 1980’s. With support from NYCDOT, they were reinstalled with a few additions to stimulate a discussion and raise awareness about gender and race issues. The signs were installed as part of Jamaica Center for the Arts and Learning’s “Jamaica Flux 2010: Workspaces and Windows."
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Artervention
Safe Street by Ilona Garnet
Presented with Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning
Jamaica Avenue, Queens
With the help of NYCDOT’s Roadway Repair & Maintenance and Asphalt Plant Divisions, artist Paula Meijerink creatively celebrates the city’s most ubiquitous surface. In re-imagining the application of asphalt Paula Meijerink provided a new framework for viewers to think to think of city streets and their basic material makeup.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Tattoo Dragon by Paula Meijerink
Presented with Wanted Landscape LLC
Prospect Street and Jay Street, 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
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
"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
Straus Media and the New York Society for Ethical Culture hosted a town hall meeting on January 21, 2015.
Moderated by Kyle Pope, Editor in Chief of Our Town, West Side Spirit, Our Town Downtown, Chelsea Clinton News, and Westsider.
NYC DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg joined speakers: Jill Abramson, former executive editor of the New York Times, Council Member Helen Rosenthal, and Dana Lerner of Families for Safe Streets to discuss pedestrian safety on the Upper West Side.
In the Self-Portrait Project, photographer, Andy Lin erects a two way mirror and a remote-triggered camera in different environments and allows passerby to photograph themselves. This format alters the traditional photographic form by making the subject and the photographer one and the same. The two way mirror provides instant feedback – allowing the subject-photographer to choose exactly how he/she will be portrayed.
Andy Lin describes his project as a “public service… for anyone and everyone who would like to document their own likeness under their own terms. It is a tool for empowerment and an archive whose value will grow with age and perspective.” Lin’s involvement in NYCDOT’s Summer Streets further extends the Project into the public realm and the choice of Foley Square as a backdrop highlights one of New York City’s landmarks.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Artervention
The Self-Portrait Project by Andy Lin
Presented with NYCDOT Summer Streets
Intersection of Worth, Centre, and Lafayette Sts, Manhattan
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.
With the help of NYCDOT’s Roadway Repair & Maintenance and Asphalt Plant Divisions, artist Paula Meijerink creatively celebrates the city’s most ubiquitous surface. In re-imagining the application of asphalt Paula Meijerink provided a new framework for viewers to think to think of city streets and their basic material makeup.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Tattoo Dragon by Paula Meijerink
Presented with Wanted Landscape LLC
Prospect Street and Jay Street, Brooklyn
“Young Artists for Safer Streets,” is a colorful exhibition of traffic-safety signs and a mural designed by New York City public school students based on a unique curriculum developed by DOT’s Office of Education and Outreach and the nonprofit Groundswell Community Mural Project.
The installation will be on display for the next six months at St. George Ferry Terminal in Staten Island and at Whitehall Ferry Terminal in Lower Manhattan.
For more information, please visit www.nyc.gov/html/dot//html/pr2011/pr11_45.shtml
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.
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.
With the help of NYCDOT’s Roadway Repair & Maintenance and Asphalt Plant Divisions, artist Paula Meijerink creatively celebrates the city’s most ubiquitous surface. In re-imagining the application of asphalt Paula Meijerink provided a new framework for viewers to think to think of city streets and their basic material makeup.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Tattoo Dragon by Paula Meijerink
Presented with Wanted Landscape LLC
Prospect Street and Jay Street, Brooklyn
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
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
Samuel 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 Samuel Holleran
Presented with New York Cares
Columbia St between Atlantic Ave and Congress St, Brooklyn
Alternate Name: Northern Boulevard Bridge
Carry: 6-lane road (Northern Boulevard, NYS Route 25A) with sidewalks
Opened: 1 August 1931
Average daily traffic volumes (2008): 45,000
"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
"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
"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
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
“Heralding the gateway to and from St. George’s Staten Island, Doily marks the transition with a nod to all things domestic in sharp contrast to its surroundings.” –Jennifer Cecere
The work of artist Jennifer Cecere is influenced by traditional crafts, homemade crafts, embroidery, and needlepoint. Her doilies are made from a wide variety of materials and installed in a wide variety of places as a reference to both the architecture of both the natural world and the built environment.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
St. George Doily by Jennifer Cecere
Presented with Garibaldi-Meucci Museum
St George Ferry Terminal, Staten Island
With the help of NYCDOT’s Roadway Repair & Maintenance and Asphalt Plant Divisions, artist Paula Meijerink creatively celebrates the city’s most ubiquitous surface. In re-imagining the application of asphalt Paula Meijerink provided a new framework for viewers to think to think of city streets and their basic material makeup.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Tattoo Dragon by Paula Meijerink
Presented with Wanted Landscape LLC
Prospect Street and Jay Street, 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
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
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.
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
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
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
“Young Artists for Safer Streets,” is a colorful exhibition of traffic-safety signs and a mural designed by New York City public school students based on a unique curriculum developed by DOT’s Office of Education and Outreach and the nonprofit Groundswell Community Mural Project.
The installation will be on display for the next six months at St. George Ferry Terminal in Staten Island and at Whitehall Ferry Terminal in Lower Manhattan.
For more information, please visit www.nyc.gov/html/dot//html/pr2011/pr11_45.shtml
With the help of NYCDOT’s Roadway Repair & Maintenance and Asphalt Plant Divisions, artist Paula Meijerink creatively celebrates the city’s most ubiquitous surface. In re-imagining the application of asphalt Paula Meijerink provided a new framework for viewers to think to think of city streets and their basic material makeup.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Tattoo Dragon by Paula Meijerink
Presented with Wanted Landscape LLC
Prospect Street and Jay Street, Brooklyn
100 Degrees was a month long art installation intended to raise awareness about the present environmental state of the planet through a public art piece. Before the installation was displayed, individuals wrote their thoughts about global warming on construction paper tree leaves. To complete the installation, the tree with its paper messages was positioned inside a transparent globe. This installation was part of the Queens Art Express 2009.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Artervention
100 Degrees by Hector Canonge and Chin Chih Yang
Presented with Queens Council on the Arts
34th St between Queens Blvd North and Queens Blvd South, Queens
As part of the Make Music New York festival, British musician and producer Nick Franglen performed for 24 hours under the Manhattan Bridge in DUMBO, Brooklyn during the summer solstice - the longest day of the year, June 21, 2011. Franglen, who is one half of the electronica band Lemon Jelly, used a sensor known as a Soundbeam to detect cyclists travelling across the Manhattan Bridge. The cyclists’ presence on the bridge was transmitted through a wire to the archway beneath the Bridge where Franglen and passersby perceived their presence as an interruption in the music being created. Like an audio camera obscura, the flow of the music stuttered and flickered as the cyclists blurred past the sensor, relaying ghostly evidence of movement on the bridge above.
Franglen’s performance at the Manhattan Bridge was prompted by his interest in capturing sound and movement on many of the world’s most famous bridges. Franglen began this journey with a 24 hour performance under the arches of the London Bridge in September 2010 for which he received considerable attention from the media.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Artervention
Hymn to the Manhattan Bridge by Nick Franglen
Presented with Make Music New York and the DUMBO Business Improvement District
Water and Front Streets, Brooklyn
makemusicny.org/schedule/feature/hymn-to-the-manhattan-br...
Name: University Heights / 207th Street Bridge
Location: NYC (Manhattan to Bronx)
Carry: 2 road lanes with sidewalk
Type: Swing
Opened: 1992
Note: The first swing bridge on this site was a recycled former Broadway Bridge that opened in 1908
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
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