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Victor Mendez, Administrator, Federal Highways Administration, with NYCDOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan
Victor Mendez, Administrator, Federal Highways Administration, with NYCDOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan
DOT's Central Depot 58th Street Crew installs containers for generators in Red Hook after Hurricane Sandy.
Photo: Rafael Lopez Jr., NYC DOT
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.
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
In 1996, Ruth Lande Shuman founded Publicolor, a NYC-based youth development organization which uses color, collaboration, and design to engage at-risk students in their education and communities. The inspiration for this Publicolor project is the Fibonacci series, a math sequence in which each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers, expressing the synergetic relationship between time and motion.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Color and Collaboration: A Fibonacci Series by Ruth Lande Shuman
Presented with Publicolor
21st St between 47th and 49th Rds, Queens
A DOT worker directs heavy agency machinery during cleanup efforts in the Rockaways.
Photo: NYC Department of Transportation / Stephen Mallon.
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.
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
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.
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’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
This 'Weigh in Motion' site is an inter-agency project where we are collecting truck weight as vehicles pass over a scale built into the roadway near Alexander Hamilton Bridge. Learn more at www.nyc.gov/dot
The $1.8 Million project will include 3 sites in total. The multi-agency Technical Advisory Committee for the project determined where the roadway weigh in motion systems should be installed. The additional sites currently in design are located on Van Dam Street between Hunters Point Ave and 48th Avenue Queens NY and on Rockaway Blvd in Queens just west of the Nassau County Line.
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
NYC DOT AND DDC ANNOUNCE FORDHAM PLAZA PHASE 2 GROUNDBREAKING IN THE BRONX:
Premier transportation hub in the Bronx will be enhanced after collaborative reconstruction process with the Department of Design and Construction. Project completion expected in fall 2015.
New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Polly Trottenberg and New York City Department of Design and Construction (DDC) Commissioner Dr. Feniosky Peña-Mora today announced the groundbreaking of Phase 2 of the Fordham Plaza reconstruction project in the Bronx. The new Fordham Plaza will play an important role in Vision Zero’s goal to reduce traffic-related deaths and injuries with shortened pedestrian crossings, new direct crossings established to deter jaywalking, and a 25 percent expansion in pedestrian space.
More info: on.nyc.gov/1tcP0jh
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
Artist Marcie Paper constructs her paintings from short term memories derived from her immediate surroundings. Her abstract, delicate pattern serves to both mirror the barrier’s surrounding environment, while setting into motion an up-to-the-minute visual sensory cue for those that encounter the mural. Her design will be 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
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.
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
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
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!
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
Official Name: Ramblersville-Hawtree Memorial Bridge
Location: connecting Ramblersville with Hamilton Beach, Howard Beach NYC
Carry: 2 road lanes with sidewalks
Built: 1997
The Times Square Alliance and the NYCDOT Urban Art Program brought Robert Indiana’s 2008 HOPE sculpture to the Broadway Plaza in order to interject public art into one of the busiest spaces of New York City. To celebrate the opening, a dance piece entitled HOPE was performed and accompanied by a string quartet. Robert Indiana commented he “wanted to help name and empower the next generation and [he] felt that HOPE encompassed the needs of our time.” (Gothamist)
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Artervention
Hope by Robert Indiana
Presented with Times Square Alliance
Broadway between 44th and 45th Streets, Manhattan
NYC DOT was joined by elected officials, community members and leaders rallied to urge the passing of Design Build.
“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
Horsing Around the Arrows of Time is a colorful tribute to the DUMBO neighborhood’s industrial and manufacturing past. DUMBO-based artist, Eleanora Kupencow, chose to situate her work in this particular location because of the contrast between the bright-colored sculptures and the surrounding streetscape. The sculptures were previously exhibited at the United Nations Hammarskjold Plaza.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Artervention
Horsing Around the Arrows of Time by Eleanora Kupencow
Presented with DUMBO Business Improvement District
Pearl Street, Anchorage Place, and Water Street, Brooklyn