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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!
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
Carry: six road lanes of the Hutchinson River Parkway with a sidewalk on the west side
Type: main bascule drawbridge span, flanked on both sides by three side spans
Opened: 11 October 1941 (reconstructed in 1985)
Average daily traffic volumes (2008): 121,000
On Tuesday, January 25, 2016 NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio delivered an update on the city's response to the snow storm, and thanked NYC's workers for keeping residents safe throughout the weekend.
Fordham Road and Grand Concourse Intersection, Fordham NYC
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DOT Emergency Response vehicles near damaged trees on Northern Blvd at the Grand Central Parkway entrance ramp after Hurricane Sandy.
Photo: Rafael Lopez Jr., NYC DOT
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
Location: connecting Bergen Beach to Canarsie Beach Park
Carry: Shore Parkway - 6 road lanes with sidewalks over Paerdegat Inlet
Opened: 1940 (replacement reconstruction started in October 2009 and is expected to be complete in fall 2014)
First visited: 26 August 2008
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!
In the Self-Portrait Project, photographer, Andy Lin erects a two way mirror and a remote-triggered camera in different environments and allows passerby to photograph themselves. This format alters the traditional photographic form by making the subject and the photographer one and the same. The two way mirror provides instant feedback – allowing the subject-photographer to choose exactly how he/she will be portrayed.
Andy Lin describes his project as a “public service… for anyone and everyone who would like to document their own likeness under their own terms. It is a tool for empowerment and an archive whose value will grow with age and perspective.” Lin’s involvement in NYCDOT’s Summer Streets further extends the Project into the public realm and the choice of Foley Square as a backdrop highlights one of New York City’s landmarks.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Artervention
The Self-Portrait Project by Andy Lin
Presented with NYCDOT Summer Streets
Intersection of Worth, Centre, and Lafayette Sts, Manhattan
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
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.
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
“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
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.
The Animus Art Collective, made up of Preston Dane, Annie Vainchenker, and David Ort, worked with NYCDOT and the Action Arts League in the creation of Dream Outside the Box. The Animus Art Collective created the sculpture by building various sized red, white, and blue boxes stacked and interlocked with one other. Together, the painted boxes of plywood were a sculptural representation of the American flag. In addition to NYCDOT and AAL, New York City school children from P.S. 163 contributed to the fabrication of this project by coming up with their own versions of the American dream which were engraved on to the boxes by the artists.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Dream Outside the Box by Animus Art Collective
Presented with Action Arts League
97th St between Amsterdam and Columbus Aves, Manhattan
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.