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NYC DOT held a vendor demonstration regarding USDOT Connected Vehicle Pilot program at the Aquedect Racetrack on Wednesday, July 13, 2016. Vendors demonstrated the capability of aftermarket safety devices in vehicles to help detect right turning vehicles, blind spot detection, collision warnings, speeding, emergency situations and more.
“Keeping New York City’s urban landscape an interesting, attractive place for New Yorkers and visitors has always been a priority for our Administration, and one major way we’ve done it is through public art,” -Mayor Bloomberg.
Brooklyn-based artist Corinne Ulmann specializes in large-scale public art designs. Her Green Screen was one of four winning designs of the urbancanvas Design Competition, a contest to help beautify New York City’s urban landscape with art at construction sites. The competition challenged professional artists and designers to create artwork for temporary protective structures to bring an element of beauty to what is often an eyesore. Green Screen was installed on Thames Street to beautify one of the main entrances to the 9/11 Memorial.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Special Project
Green Screen by Corinne Ulmann
Presented with Downtown Alliance
Thames St between Trinity Pl and Greenwich St, 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.
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.
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.
Name: Washington [Heights] Bridge (initially called Harlem River Bridge)
Location: NYC (Manhattan to Bronx)
Carry: 6 road lanes with sidewalks
Type: Two-hinged steel arch with masonry approaches
Opened: 1888
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
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
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.
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
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 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.
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!
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
Carry: 4 road lanes with sidewalks, connecting Bensonhurst with Coney Island
Type: fixed steel and concrete bridge
NYC DOT, Alta and Citi Announce Agreement to Expand and Enhance Citi Bike Program in New York City
New Firm and Management to Double the Size of the Nation’s Largest Bike Share System to at Least 12,000 Bikes at 700 Stations and in More Neighborhoods by 2017
Learn more: on.nyc.gov/1FVY54A
On Monday, December 19, 2-16 NYC announces the kick-off of ParkNYC, a new mobile payment option for on-street parking in NYC. Learn more at ParkNYC.org
Thank goodness, the one terribly-conceived stretch of the bike lane on Manhattan's Broadway is finally getting fixed. I and others suggested to DOT that they swap the locations of the bike lane and the pedestrian plaza. That's not exactly what they're doing, but this change--moving the bike lane to the entirely other side of the street--is probably just as good or better.
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 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.
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
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!
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.
On Monday, December 19, 2-16 NYC announces the kick-off of ParkNYC, a new mobile payment option for on-street parking in NYC. Learn more at ParkNYC.org
Aberrant Sidewalk was part sculptural installation and performance piece that traveled to multiple sites in four out of the five New York City boroughs. Representatives from the Aberration Tracking Society, an organization created by the artist Kathryne Hall in 2008, were located at each of the installation sites to ask the public what they thought about the art and their theories on the effects of the current economy as considered through this artwork. The public was able to track aberration sitings at www.aberrationtracking.com.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Artervention
Aberrant Sidewalk by Katheryn Hall
Presented with Flux Factory
Multiple locations in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Staten Island
“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
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.
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, NYC Bike Share, Citi Bike and our co-sponsors held a community planning workshop for the expansion of the bike share system in Manhattan’s CB11 (Harlem) on June 30, 2015.
This event was co-sponsored by Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, Council Member Inez Dickens, Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez, Borough President Gale Brewer, State Senator Bill Perkins, State Senator José Serrano, Assembly Member Robert Rodriguez, Assembly Member Keith Wright, Community Board 11 and New Harlem East Merchants Association.