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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.
Carry: 6 road lanes with sidewalks connecting Bensonhurst and Coney Island
Type: Double Leaf Trunnion Bascule Bridge
Opened: 20 December 1931
Average daily traffic volumes (2008): 36,000
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.
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?
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
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?
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
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.
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.
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’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
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
The New York City Department of Transportation’s DOT Art Program and the Parks and Recreation Department present “Las Bicicletas,” a 122 bicycle inspired sculpture exhibition by Mexican artist Gilberto Aceves Navarro. The sculptures were installed on DOT sites at Bowery and Canal Street in Manhattan, the bike approach leading to the Manhattan Bridge, Jay Street and Sands Street, Jay Street and York Street, BAM Park at Lafayette Avenue, and Atlantic Avenue and Columbia Street all in Brooklyn. In addition, there are four Parks’ sites that host sculptures at Fruit Street, Bartel Pritchard Square and Louis Valentino Jr. Park. Visit the website www.thebicycles.org to plan a cycling route around the sculptures.
The sculptures are constructed out of sheet metal and have been painted red, white, black or orange. They were then laser-cut into silhouettes depicting bikes in various dynamic positions, both with and without riders. Aceves commented that the sculptures are “vehicles of happiness and health” and his inspiration for the bicycles came from a growing need for alternative transportation, especially in urban spaces like New York City.
NYCDOT Art Program, Arterventions
Las Bicicletas, Gilberto Aceves Navarro
In partnership with Las Bicicletas and the NYC Department of Parks & Recreation
Bowery and Canal Street (Manhattan)
Bike approach leading to the Manhattan Bridge, Jay Street and Sands Street, Jay Street and York Street, BAM Park at Lafayette Avenue, and Atlantic Avenue and Columbia Street (Brooklyn)
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.
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?
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
NYC DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg joined UNICEF, NYPD Chief Chan, Zoleka Mandela, WHO and Michelle Yeoh joined together to #SaveKidsLives with road safety.
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
On February 18, 2015 the NYC DOT and NYPD unveiled the Pedestrian Safety Action Plan for the borough of the Bronx.
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!
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.
“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
Police Commissioner Kelly, City Councilmember Vacca and Transportation Commissioner Sadik-Khan announce new pedestrian and cyclist safety initiatives.
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.
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.