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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
The Animus Art Collective, made up of Preston Dane, Annie Vainchenker, and David Ort, worked with NYCDOT and the Action Arts League in the creation of Dream Outside the Box. The Animus Art Collective created the sculpture by building various sized red, white, and blue boxes stacked and interlocked with one other. Together, the painted boxes of plywood were a sculptural representation of the American flag. In addition to NYCDOT and AAL, New York City school children from P.S. 163 contributed to the fabrication of this project by coming up with their own versions of the American dream which were engraved on to the boxes by the artists.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Dream Outside the Box by Animus Art Collective
Presented with Action Arts League
97th St between Amsterdam and Columbus Aves, Manhattan
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
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
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
"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
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
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
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
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.
Mayor Bill de Blasio, New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Polly Trottenberg, and New York State Senate co-leader Jeffrey Klein today announced the expanded installation of speed cameras citywide near schools, as part of Mayor de Blasio’s Vision Zero plan. The announcement was made outside P.S. 95, located at the intersection of Sedgwick and Hillman Avenue in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, an area classified by DOT as a high-crash corridor.
Read the full press release here: on.nyc.gov/1Ba7F0e
DOT workers helping with the recovery of Breezy Point in the Rockaways, Queens.
Photo: NYC Department of Transportation / Stephen Mallon.
"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
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.
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
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.
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 Times Square Alliance and the NYCDOT Urban Art Program brought Robert Indiana’s 2008 HOPE sculpture to the Broadway Plaza in order to interject public art into one of the busiest spaces of New York City. To celebrate the opening, a dance piece entitled HOPE was performed and accompanied by a string quartet. Robert Indiana commented he “wanted to help name and empower the next generation and [he] felt that HOPE encompassed the needs of our time.” (Gothamist)
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Artervention
Hope by Robert Indiana
Presented with Times Square Alliance
Broadway between 44th and 45th Streets, Manhattan
On Thursday, October 23, 2014 AT&T hosted the Don't Text and Drive simulator at Brooklyn Borough Hall with Brooklyn Borough Commissioner Eric Adams and NYC DOT.
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.
Mayor Bill de Blasio, New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Polly Trottenberg, and New York State Senate co-leader Jeffrey Klein today announced the expanded installation of speed cameras citywide near schools, as part of Mayor de Blasio’s Vision Zero plan. The announcement was made outside P.S. 95, located at the intersection of Sedgwick and Hillman Avenue in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, an area classified by DOT as a high-crash corridor.
Read the full press release here: on.nyc.gov/1Ba7F0e
The Battery Park Underpass has been completely drained after flooding during Hurricane Sandy.
Photo: NYC Department of Transportation / Alex Engel
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
NYC DOT was joined by elected officials, community members and leaders rallied to urge the passing of Design Build.
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.
R-O-B/Structural Oscillations may have been the brain child of Gramazio & Kohler, but R-O-B, a simple robotic arm, is what is responsible for physically stacking and epoxying more than 7,000 bricks into a looping wall that ran the length of a pedestrian mall on Pike Street during a three-week installation period.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Artervention
R-O-B/Structural Oscillations by Gramazio & Kohler
Presented with Storefront for Architecture
Allen Street Mall, Manhattan
Artist Oscar Lopez was selected winner of a design competition to create a mural for the concrete portion of a step street in the Bronx. The artist developed his concept in workshops with local school children and with the guidance of Architecture for Humanity, the Department of Transportation, and the Bronx Museum of the Arts as well as a number of volunteers who helped to paint the mural over the course of three weekends.
The artist’s design suggests forward momentum and growth with an urban, grid-like structure serving as a backdrop for the prominent vegetation-growing figure reaching for the sun.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
ARTfarm by Oscar Lopez
Presented with Architecture for Humanity and Bronx Museum
165th Street and Carroll Place, Bronx
Many people walk and cycle along the Pulaski Bridge that unites Brooklyn and Queens. Long Island City-based artist Joel Voisard created Bridge that Binds to enliven the space. Alternatives Queens Committee, the Mayor’s Community Affairs Unit, and the children of Andrews Grove, designed graphics of people’s movements such as, walking, cycling, or doing the moon walk, towards the center of the bridge. On the Queens side of the bridge, images were maroon to pay homage to the 7 train and on the Brooklyn side, images are green to reference the G train. Voisard installed a bench made of found lumber in the center of the bridge (overlooking Newton Creek) to create a meeting point between the two boroughs.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Bridge that Binds by Joel Voisard
Presented with Transportation Alternatives Queens Committee
11th Street, Queens and McGuiness Boulevard, Brooklyn
ARTfarm was an installation composed of 59 planters made from recycled materials such as cabinet doors and carpet crates arranged from the top to the bottom of a step street in the Bronx. The planters featured flowers and plants which instantly brightened the site and transformed the concrete structure into an eye-catching living sculpture and attractive public space.
Architecture for Humanity Studio drew inspiration for ARTfarm from the nearby farmers’ market and worked closely with the Bronx Museum of Art, located around the corner, to host a workshop for local school children and community members to paint many of the planters.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
ARTfarm by Valeria Bianco, Christian Gonsalvez, and Justin Taylor
Presented with Architecture for Humanity Studio and Bronx Museum
165th Street and Carroll Place, Bronx
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
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
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