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Location: connecting Long Island City in Queens and Greenpoint in Brooklyn, New York City
Carry: 6 road lanes with a sidewalk on the western side
Type: Double leaf, trunnion bascule
Opened: 10 September 1954 (reconstructed in 1994)
Average daily traffic volumes (2008): 37,000
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
A DOT worker on Staten Island, assisting with hurricane recovery.
Photo: NYC Department of Transportation / Stephen Mallon.
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.
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
The NYCDOT Art Program and the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) presented “Sky Feather,” a 12-foot tall wooden feather sculpture by artist Petros Chrisostomou on the median between 124th and 125th Streets and Lenox Avenue in Manhattan. Even though feathers are fragile and virtually weightless, in this particular context, the feather feels dense and monumental because of the artist’s use of materials and scale. Petros typically works with object and context relationships and aims at taking an object from one aspect of society and juxtaposing it within different environments.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Community Commissions
"Sky Feather" by Petros Chrisostomou
Presented with the International Studio & Curatorial Program
Lenox Avenue between 124th and 125th Streets, 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
"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 crews were out late painting the blue line in preparation for the TCS NYC Marathon.
Working through the night, the Nightliner drove through Brooklyn painting the blue line up and down 4th Ave., off the Verrazano Bridge, all the way to the Queensboro Bridge in LIC.
Have you seen the blue line?
NYC DOT's latest awareness campaign, "Your Choices Matter," uses visceral, vivid images to drive the point home. Learn more here: bit.ly/YourChoicesMatter
A DOT worker helping to clear debris in Dongan Hills, Staten Island
Photo: NYC Department of Transportation / Stephen Mallon.
NYCDOT, The Center for Architecture, and Max Protetch Gallery worked together to bring the 24 Foot Fly’s Eye Dome to LaGuardia Place in conjunction with a Whitney Museum exhibition about R. Buckminster Fuller’s work as an architect, engineer, designer, and inventor. The central placement of the dome on the wide sidewalk invited pedestrians to interact freely with the form stepping in and out of the dome to take in the scale and complexity of the piece.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Artervention
24 Foot Fly’s Eye Dome by R. Buckminister Fuller
Presented with The Center for Architecture and Max Protetch Gallery
LaGuardia Place between W 3rd and Bleecker Streets, 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
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
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
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
DOT's Queens Arterial Emergency Response Unit, based out of Harper Street Yard, picks up donations to bring to the Rockaways on November 17.
The donated food and goods were provided by the Auburndale Soccer Club.
Photo: Rafael Lopez Jr., NYC DOT
Choreographer Pavel Sustiak, together with Palissimo, broke boundaries addressing the complexity of public and private spaces showing that art can occur when and where you least expect it.
Performances began with dancer Lindsey Dietz Marchant appearing to have missed her ferry and pressing her body to the closed doors in the boarding area at the ferry terminal. A small group of individuals then wandered over to scan the schedule that Lindsey was standing near – while they did, she stood frozen with one foot raised and spread her arms. Performers Gina Bashour and Jeff Kent Jacobs then morphed from civilians to contorted beings at which point most onlookers became confused not knowing whether to move or watch until it became clear a choreographed dance piece was being performed right in front of their eyes. To accompany the choreography, a sound bar was set up to which onlookers could plug in to hear different soundtracks thereby creating individualized unique experiences with the artwork.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Artervention
HALT! By Pavel Sustiak
Presented with Palissimo
Whitehall Ferry Terminal, Manhattan
On Wednesday, October 15, 2014 the New York City Department of Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg, NYPD Transportation Chief Thomas Chan, Taxi & Limousine Commissioner Meera Joshi and elected officials unveiled the city's 25 Days to #25MPH public awareness campaign in advance of the new default speed limit lowering from 30 to 25 MPH, which takes effect Friday, November 7th.
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