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Aberrant Sidewalk was part sculptural installation and performance piece that traveled to multiple sites in four out of the five New York City boroughs. Representatives from the Aberration Tracking Society, an organization created by the artist Kathryne Hall in 2008, were located at each of the installation sites to ask the public what they thought about the art and their theories on the effects of the current economy as considered through this artwork. The public was able to track aberration sitings at www.aberrationtracking.com.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Artervention
Aberrant Sidewalk by Katheryn Hall
Presented with Flux Factory
Multiple locations in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Staten Island
Location: connecting Canarsie Beach Park to Spring Creek Park
Carry: Shore Parkway - 6 road lanes with sidewalks over Fresh Creek Inlet
Opened: 1940 (replacement reconstruction started in October 2009 and is expected to be complete in fall 2014)
NYC DOT, Mayor de Blasio, and NYPD announce a plan to install security bollards to protect pedestrians in public spaces.
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
Location: connecting Hunters Point with Blissville, Long Island City NYC
Carry: two-lane local city street with sidewalks
Type: bascule moveable bridge
Opened: 14 December 1910, replacing the previous 1874 bridge and an earlier wooden bridge (the bridge was rebuilt in the early 1980's as a single-leaf bascule, incorporating the foundations of the 1910 bridge)
Average daily traffic volumes (2008): 7,200
23 Days to #25MPH: “I think the lower speed limit will have a major impact on new drivers. My younger sister will soon be driving and I believe she will be less nervous and feel safer driving with a lower city speed limit. Speeding just is not an option. It’s not worth the risk to lose the life of another young teenager who had a whole life ahead of them.“ – Allie, student College of Staten Island (originally posted 10/16/14)
The 191st Street Station Tunnel Art project starts at the frame of the entrance. Love that they've kept the old I.R.T. emblem above too. Here starts the two-block long crosstown tunnel, aka passageway, with the deepest station (below the surface) at the far end, serving the 1 train.
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
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
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
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
"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
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 Commissioner Polly Trottenberg joined UNICEF, NYPD Chief Chan, Zoleka Mandela, WHO and Michelle Yeoh joined together to #SaveKidsLives with road safety.
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
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and NYC DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan update New Yorkers from Whitehall Terminal on recovery from Hurricane Sandy.
A member of DOT's Emergency Response Team surveys road conditions at DOT's Traffic Management Center in Queens after Hurricane Sandy.
Photo: Rafael Lopez Jr., NYC DOT
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
Made from galvanized, durable ductile iron, meter racks easily slide on to former parking meter posts that have had their heads removed following DOT’s installation of new, user-friendly muni meters. By taking advantage of already-installed infrastructure, the meter racks eliminate the cost of removing old posts combined with the cost of installing an entirely new bike rack.
The new meter rack’s design is based on the standard “Hoop” rack designed by Ian Mahaffy and Maarten De Greeve, which was selected as the winner of a DOT and Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum-sponsored competition in 2008.
6,000 racks will be installed at meters citywide to help meet the city's growing demand for public bike parking.
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
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
“Keeping New York City’s urban landscape an interesting, attractive place for New Yorkers and visitors has always been a priority for our Administration, and one major way we’ve done it is through public art,” -Mayor Bloomberg.
Brooklyn-based artist Corinne Ulmann specializes in large-scale public art designs. Her Green Screen was one of four winning designs of the urbancanvas Design Competition, a contest to help beautify New York City’s urban landscape with art at construction sites. The competition challenged professional artists and designers to create artwork for temporary protective structures to bring an element of beauty to what is often an eyesore. Green Screen was installed on Thames Street to beautify one of the main entrances to the 9/11 Memorial.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Special Project
Green Screen by Corinne Ulmann
Presented with Downtown Alliance
Thames St between Trinity Pl and Greenwich St, Manhattan
Bright Nights, a digital installation, celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Manhattan Bridge through site-specific imagery projected on to the Manhattan Bridge Anchorage in Brooklyn. The graphics created by Burak Arikan, Motomichi Nakamura, Marius Watz, and Lee Wells explored the physical, spatial, and historical components of the bridge. Art consulting firm Random Number, Two Trees, the DUMBO Business Improvement District, NYC Bridge Centennial Commission, and Rooftop Films also contributed to this temporary art installation.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Artervention
Bright Nights by Burak Arikan, Motomichi Nakamura, Marius Watz, and Lee Wells
Presented with Random Number
Front and Adams Streets, Brooklyn
Alternate Name: Boston Post Road Bridge
Carry: Boston Road (U.S. Highway 1), 4 road lanes with sidewalks
Opened: 8 April 1922
Average daily traffic volumes (2008): 21,000
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
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
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
Sam Holleran’s design evokes a fanciful picture-book impression of nature. Nature and man-made intertwine; trees resemble spherical street lighting while rocky outcroppings resemble chunks of baking chocolate. The artist’s design covers 660 feet of concrete barrier along Columbia Street near Brooklyn Bridge Park, Van Voorhees Park, and the Brooklyn Queens Expressway.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
Design submission by Sam Holleran
Presented with New York Cares
Columbia St between Atlantic Ave and Congress St, Brooklyn
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
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.
“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