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To enhance the appearance of the Whitehall Terminal during construction of Peter Minuit Plaza the NYC DOT Urban Art Program partnered with the Port Authority of NY & NJ and Tully Construction to present Garden City, designed by Sage & Coombe Architects. A vibrant banner was draped across the chain-link fence enclosing the construction site. The banner enhanced and enlivened the pedestrian experience while moving through this public space. Even though New Yorkers walk through the concrete jungle of Manhattan every day, Garden City transported passersby from the monotony of New York to a beautiful, natural oasis.
Sage & Coombe Architects were chosen from hundreds of applicants as part of a blind competition. By incorporating landmark buildings, key destinations and the history of lower Manhattan within the banner, pedestrians were also able to connect and identify with the banner.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Special Projects
Garden City by Sage and Combe Architects
Port Authority of New York & New Jersey and Tully Construction
Whitehall Ferry Terminal, Whitehall Street and State Street, Manhattan
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.
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 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?
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.
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
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
The New York Historical Society took their art collection to the streets in the public art installation entitled Making History Matter. Replica portraits of Abraham Lincoln and Peter Cooper were strategically positioned in the Astor Place Triangle to celebrate New York’s 400th anniversary as well as the life and accomplishments of the two men. Cooper established the venerable Cooper Union College, located adjacent to the installation, and Lincoln delivered an important presidential campaign speech at the same location.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Artervention
Making History Matter by LaPlaca Cohen
Presented with the New York Historical Society
Astor Place and Lafayette, Manhattan
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!
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
4 Days to #25MPH: "I'm a bike commuter on Staten Island, and experience has shown me that the roads are unnecessarily dangerous for cyclists and for pedestrians. Granted, the island's hilly contours introduce unavoidable hazards; but no matter how careful you are as a cyclist, if drivers flout basic traffic safety rules — number one among those being speed limits — and lack basic courtesy toward other users of the road, you can find yourself in danger." ~ Laura, Staten Island Wagner College & Transportation Alternatives member. Learn more about Laura's advocacy here: wagner.edu/wagnermagazine/?p=2861 (originally posted 11/4/14)
“Young Artists for Safer Streets,” is a colorful exhibition of traffic-safety signs and a mural designed by New York City public school students based on a unique curriculum developed by DOT’s Office of Education and Outreach and the nonprofit Groundswell Community Mural Project.
The installation will be on display for the next six months at St. George Ferry Terminal in Staten Island and at Whitehall Ferry Terminal in Lower Manhattan.
For more information, please visit www.nyc.gov/html/dot//html/pr2011/pr11_45.shtml
NYC DOT, Mayor de Blasio, and NYPD announce a plan to install security bollards to protect pedestrians in public spaces.
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?
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!
DOT workers helping with the recovery of Rockaway Park, Queens.
Photo: NYC Department of Transportation / Stephen Mallon.
The pilot Barrier Beautification project of NYCDOT’s Urban Art Program was implemented on 1900 feet of concrete barriers in a series of geometric, undulating, layered waves designed by Pedro Delgado, an illustrator at the Grey Group World Wide and implemented with volunteers from the organizations.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
Wave Pattern Design by Pedro Delgado
Presented with City Year and Grey Group Worldwide
W 155th Street & Harlem River Drive, Manhattan
“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
In association with Paul Kasmin Gallery and the Department of Parks & Recreation, the DOT Urban Art Program presents Brazilian sculptor Saint Clair Cemin’s monumental, mirrored, stainless steel sculpture Vortex. The 40 foot tall sculpture embodies, "mankind’s desire for transcendence, whisking up into the clouds all that it reflects on its surface." Inspired by Brancusi’s saying, "sculpture is direct carving," Cemin draws from cultures all over the world, and juxtaposes these diverse civilizations within his work.
Vortex is part of a larger presentation of six of Cemin’s surrealist sculptures spanning 100 blocks along Broadway. Other sculptures, varying in material and scale, include The Four, In the Center, Portrait of the Word Why, Aphrodite and The Wind. The exhibition begins September 6, 2012 and will runs until November 25, 2012.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Special Project
Vortex by Saint Clair Cemin
Department of Parks and Recreation and Paul Kasmin Gallery
Public Plaza, Broadway between 57th & 58th Streets, Manhattan
The NYC Department of Parks & Recreation, the Broadway Mall Association and Marlborough Gallery with support from the NYCDOT Urban Art Program presented Manolo Valdés Monumental Sculptures on Broadway. This installation included 16 large bronze sculptures that were installed along the Broadway pedestrian malls. Each sculpture included signs displaying phone numbers for audio guides about the work in English and Spanish. Manolo Valdés is a highly respected Spanish artist whose inspirations range from Zurbaran to Velazquez and Matisse to Lichtenstein. He has exhibited his work all over the world in places such as, Monaco, Miami, St. Petersburg, and previously in New York City.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Artervention
Monumental Sculptures on Broadway by Manolo Valdés
Presented with Broadway Mall Association and NYC Department of Parks & Recreation
Broadway from Columbus Circle-166th Street, Manhattan
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
Location: connecting Spring Creek Park, Brooklyn to Rockwood Park, Queens
Carry: multi-lane Shore Parkway / Belt Parkway with sidewalk
Opened: 1940
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