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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.
“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
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.
On Monday, July 13, 2015 NYC Department of Transportation and MTA New York City Transit Buses launched the M86 Select Bus Service route between the Upper East and Upper West Sides.
Inspired by Andy Warhol’s work and life, Rob Pruitt created The Andy Monument as a tribute depicting the late artist as a ghostly, silver presence – as a potent cultural force as both artist and self-created myth. From 1968 to 1984 Union Square was the location of Andy Warhol’s Factory where he and his collaborators reinvented the conventional artist’s studio and made history.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Arterventions
The Andy Monument by Rob Pruitt
Presented with Public Art Fund
Broadway and 17th Street, Manhattan
Two stereoscopic viewing devices show the past and future of the sites at which they stand. The ‘past’ images were collected from historical archives and the ‘future’ images were created by members of the community through an open call process. These binoculars are installed at carefully selected unused lots to encourage the public to envision the endless possibilities of transforming these spaces in to active sites.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
The Urban Field Glass Project by Rebecca Hackemann
Presented with New York Foundation for the Arts
Pike Slip at South St, Manhattan and Washington at Prospect St, Brooklyn
Days before New York City turned back its clocks, a team from NYC DOT went out to the Manhattan Bridge bike path to stop cyclists who were riding without lights. Free front (white) and rear (red) lights were given to riders in need - and just in time for dusk!
DYK that cyclists in NYC are required by law to wear front (white) and rear (red) lights from dusk to dawn? So lighten up!
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 workers helping to clear debris in Dongan Hills, Staten Island
Photo: NYC Department of Transportation / Stephen Mallon.
Franklin Avenue at Atlantic Avenue in Crown Heights
There are probably more dangerous intersections for pedestrians in the city, but this was one of the worst that I've come across: crosswalks are not even marked, you have to get across six lanes of traffic, the median doesn't extend all the way to the pedestrian crossing area, oh and to add insult to highly probable injury the pedestrian crossing signal is out of sync.
Tragic accident waiting to happen...
Connecting: West Farms and Westchester, Bronx NYC
Carry: 174 Street (2 roadways with sidewalks) over Sheridan Expressway I-895, Bronx River and Amtrak Railroad
Type: Through truss
Opened: 15 June 1928, rehabilitated 1988
Average daily traffic volumes (2008): 14,000
NYC DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg joined UNICEF, NYPD Chief Chan, Zoleka Mandela, WHO and Michelle Yeoh joined together to #SaveKidsLives with road safety.
NYC DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg joined UNICEF, NYPD Chief Chan, Zoleka Mandela, WHO and Michelle Yeoh joined together to #SaveKidsLives with road safety.
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
The third installment of Flaming Cactus in New York City took place in Hudson Square just in time for the 2011 holiday season. Previous installments took place on Governor’s Island and at Astor Place. Flaming Cactus transforms utilitarian lampposts into something colorful and whimsical with brightly-colored cable ties commonly known as ‘zip ties.’
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Arterventions
Flaming Cactus by Animus Art
Presented with Hudson Square Connection
Hudson Square, Manhattan
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
New York Cares and Community Roots Charter School coordinated a family painting day with support from the Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project and Livable Streets Education to implement the first NYCDOT pavement mural. Brooklyn-based muralist Ellie Balk collaborated with art teacher Leslie Elvin and her students to design a colorful abstract map with a striped path that meanders through circle mandalas and reflects drawings made by the students after learning about street safety.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Artervention
Liveable Streets by Ellie Balk
Presented with Liveable Streets Education
Edwards Street, Brooklyn