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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!
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.
DOT employees inspect the Battery Park Underpass after Hurricane Sandy.
Photo: NYC Department of Transportation / Alex Engel
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
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
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.
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
Artist Rena Leinberger transposed images of the veiled environment behind a fence on Vernon Boulevard and Queens Plaza South onto its face. She took six photographs shot in documentary fashion of the view beneath the Queensboro Bridge. These photographs were then re-photographed with everyday objects, in a state of falling, in front of them suggesting precipitation, celebration, and elusiveness. Never the artwork nor the scene they depict can ever be viewed in entirety, partially obscured by the flurry.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
When it opens like this, up is not over by Rena Leinberger
Presented with International Studio & Curatorial Program
Vernon Boulevard at Queens Plaza South, Queens
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
New York, NY July 27, 2013: The artist of the installation Voice Tunnel Rafael Lozano-Hemmer poses for a portrait in his hotel room of the Bowery Hotel in Manhattan, NY on July 27th, 2013. Voice Tunnel in the Park Avenue tunnel is the signature event of Summer Streets 2013. {Photo by Julie Hau for the DOT)
A DOT worker inspects the Battery Park Underpass after Hurricane Sandy.
Photo: NYC Department of Transportation / Alex Engel
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
Other Name: Hawtree Basin Pedestrian Bridge
Location: connecting Hamilton Beach with Old Howard Beach
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
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
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!
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
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!
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 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
Along the Summer Streets route, Cyclo-Phones, created by Marcelo Ertorteguy and Sara Valente, featured two stationary, bike-powered musical instruments. Each sculpture consisted of a large blue plastic drum, PVC pipes and a bicycle. As an individual pedaled the attached bicycle, the rotation of the pedals activated the sculpture creating subtle music, and as the cyclists pedaled faster, the music became louder and more dynamic.
DOT’S Urban Art Program transformed the Summer Street route into an open-air gallery with four installations. By infusing artist interventions such as, Cyclo-Phones, the Urban Art Program aimed to enhance and enrich the public’s experience at Summer Streets.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Summer Streets
Cyclo-Phones by Marcelo Ertorteguy and Sara Valente
Astor Place & Lafayette Street, Manhattan
Location: connecting Canarsie Beach Park to Spring Creek Park
Carry: Shore Parkway - 6 road lanes with sidewalk over Fresh Creek Inlet
Opened: 1940 (replacement reconstruction started in October 2009 and is expected to be complete in fall 2014)
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
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
Broadway: 1000 Steps in and around Montefiore Park is a project based on the City as Living Laboratory: Sustainability Made Tangible Through the Arts Framework, which broadly aims to build upon the City’s initiative to establish Broadway as the preeminent “green corridor” in New York City.
As pedestrians approach Montefiore Park, a field of green vertical structures defined the area. Visitors encountered convex mirrors installed at various heights reflecting their own image as well as fragments of the city. Color-coded markings around manhole covers, storm-water inlets, and light posts help decode the site’s existing infrastructure. The specific topic addressed at this site was food as related to health.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Artervention
1000 Steps Along Broadway by Mary Miss
Presented with Montefiore Park Neighborhood Association
and City College Department of Urban Design
Broadway and 137th Street, Manhattan
For use on Steven can plan.
I created this graphic to show the lane configuration for a recent blog article about the Prospect Park West two-way, floating parking-protected bike lane. This photo, via Google Maps, was taken on a day they were installing it. If you pan south, you will see where the green stops and you see trucks in the path. The yellow dividing lines aren't yet there. And neither are the huge pedestrian refuges at this intersection.