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Jenny Hung’s "City Speed" was selected from a pool of 60 applicants during the fall 2010 Barrier Beautification Open Call. The design is a fusion of two forms: the organic shape of bird wings and the hard edges of the City. Her design was inspired by the stripe pattern found on traffic safety equipment and the colors of birds commonly sighted within the limits of NYC such as the Rock Pigeon, the Red-tailed Hawk, the White-breasted Nuthatch, and the Northern Cardinal. The feathers and wings of each bird were drawn larger than life creating a bold abstract design.
Jenny Hung is a graphic designer and graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology with a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts. Her work values the questioning of presumptions and aims for a deeper understanding of ourselves and our place in the world.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
City Speed by Jenny Hung
Presented with New York Cares
Hutchinson River Parkway North at Edwards Ave, Bronx
With the Artervention 69 Meters, Magda Sayeg transformed 69 average parking meters into a beautiful work of art by wrapping each in a knitted creation. Montague Street Business Improvement District, engaged work with Knitta Please, and 50 volunteers to fabricate the yarn cozies for Montague Street in Brooklyn. Each sleeve took about 2-3 hours to make and 15 minutes to install. By adding interest to the street, the Montague Street BID supported local merchants.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Artervention
69 Meters by Magda Sayeg
Presented with Montague Business Improvement District
Montague Street, Brooklyn
A 60-foot-long concrete barrier on West 31st Street was transformed into an imaginative work of art by a collective of artist-students of the Fashion Institute of Technology. Urban Sound studio members Pansum Cheng, Matthew Gilli, Garrett Klein, Jason Mitja, and Jon-Paul Rodriguez, brought the design to life. Melissa Starke, department coordinator, Fine Arts Department at FIT, participated both as an artist and supervisor of the project. Richard Pitts, professor of Fine Arts at FIT, served as faculty advisor.
The lively two- and three-dimensional design focuses on images and symbols significant to the neighborhood and its occupants. The old Penn Station is represented by an arabesque pattern taken from the former building’s ironwork. Columns, along with letters blowing in the wind, symbolize the James Farley Post Office building. The legs of a basketball player signify the sports games that take place at Madison Square Garden, while an elephant’s legs are reminiscent of the circus that comes to the Garden. The Garment District is characterized by a woman wearing a mini-skirt and high heels.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
31st Street Barrier Art by FIT students
Presented with 34th Street Partnership and Fashion Institute of Technology
West 31st Street between 9th and Dyer Aves, Manhattan
Block association LinRoFORMA (Lincoln Road between Flatbush and Ocean Residents and Merchants Association) partnered with DOT to make their corridor a cleaner, greener, safer and more welcoming place with an art project installed across their footbridge. Inspired by the “chandelier of sneakers” she saw in the area, Crystal invited the community to contribute shoelaces for her installation and to also donate shoes to a local shelter. Crystal used the shoelaces to create honeycomb granny squares that were then stitched onto the chain-link fence. The project combines the ideas of movement, of comfort and of reclaiming the community.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Foot Traffic by Crystal Gregory
Presented with LinRoFORMA
Lincoln Road, Brooklyn
crystalgregory.org/artwork_foottraffic
Jenny Hung’s "City Speed" was selected from a pool of 60 applicants during the fall 2010 Barrier Beautification Open Call. The design is a fusion of two forms: the organic shape of bird wings and the hard edges of the City. Her design was inspired by the stripe pattern found on traffic safety equipment and the colors of birds commonly sighted within the limits of NYC such as the Rock Pigeon, the Red-tailed Hawk, the White-breasted Nuthatch, and the Northern Cardinal. The feathers and wings of each bird were drawn larger than life creating a bold abstract design.
Jenny Hung is a graphic designer and graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology with a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts. Her work values the questioning of presumptions and aims for a deeper understanding of ourselves and our place in the world.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
City Speed by Jenny Hung
Presented with New York Cares
Hutchinson River Parkway North at Edwards Ave, Bronx
The MTA and NYCDOT announced the completion of bus priority lanes and related infrastructure on 149 St in the Bronx on Friday, Oct. 9.
The 2.7 miles of bus lanes along the highly-trafficked 149 St corridor are equipped with transit signal priority (TSP) technology. New enforcement cameras will help ensure that only buses and other essential vehicles utilize priority sections of the roadway.
The corridor is home to four popular bus routes (Bx2, Bx4, Bx17, and Bx19) and runs through some of the busiest destinations in the Bronx, including Lincoln Hospital.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit)
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.
The MTA and NYCDOT announced the completion of bus priority lanes and related infrastructure on 149 St in the Bronx on Friday, Oct. 9.
The 2.7 miles of bus lanes along the highly-trafficked 149 St corridor are equipped with transit signal priority (TSP) technology. New enforcement cameras will help ensure that only buses and other essential vehicles utilize priority sections of the roadway.
The corridor is home to four popular bus routes (Bx2, Bx4, Bx17, and Bx19) and runs through some of the busiest destinations in the Bronx, including Lincoln Hospital.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit)
Select Bus Service launched on 86 St. on Mon., July 13, 2015. The M86 SBS will help make the crosstown trip faster. Graphic provided by NYCDOT.
In fall 2012, DOT cut the ribbon on a comprehensive redesign of Manhattan’s Delancey Street on the Lower East Side. One of the latest in a series of safety projects citywide, the project shortened pedestrian crossings at 14 locations, increased pedestrian space and crossing time, and enhanced signal timing and travel lanes for vehicles entering and exiting the Williamsburg Bridge.
The redesign adds more than 21,000 square feet of pedestrian space along the street, restricts several vehicle turns and also makes travel lanes more consistent. A new vehicle access point at Clinton Street also simplifies the connection from the FDR Drive, eliminating the need for vehicles to travel through residential streets to reach the bridge via Norfolk Street.
Learn more: on.nyc.gov/PGt5tO
The MTA and NYCDOT announced the completion of bus priority lanes and related infrastructure on 149 St in the Bronx on Friday, Oct. 9.
The 2.7 miles of bus lanes along the highly-trafficked 149 St corridor are equipped with transit signal priority (TSP) technology. New enforcement cameras will help ensure that only buses and other essential vehicles utilize priority sections of the roadway.
The corridor is home to four popular bus routes (Bx2, Bx4, Bx17, and Bx19) and runs through some of the busiest destinations in the Bronx, including Lincoln Hospital.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit)
The MTA and NYCDOT announced the completion of bus priority lanes and related infrastructure on 149 St in the Bronx on Friday, Oct. 9.
The 2.7 miles of bus lanes along the highly-trafficked 149 St corridor are equipped with transit signal priority (TSP) technology. New enforcement cameras will help ensure that only buses and other essential vehicles utilize priority sections of the roadway.
The corridor is home to four popular bus routes (Bx2, Bx4, Bx17, and Bx19) and runs through some of the busiest destinations in the Bronx, including Lincoln Hospital.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit)
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 MTA and NYCDOT announced the completion of bus priority lanes and related infrastructure on 149 St in the Bronx on Friday, Oct. 9.
The 2.7 miles of bus lanes along the highly-trafficked 149 St corridor are equipped with transit signal priority (TSP) technology. New enforcement cameras will help ensure that only buses and other essential vehicles utilize priority sections of the roadway.
The corridor is home to four popular bus routes (Bx2, Bx4, Bx17, and Bx19) and runs through some of the busiest destinations in the Bronx, including Lincoln Hospital.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit)
In August 2010, DOT opened the city's first "pop-up café"—an innovative, temporary new curbside seating platform that provides workers, residents and visitors on Pearl Street in Lower Manhattan with a needed public space to sit and enjoy a cup of coffee, a quick sandwich, or just to take in the area's busy streetscape. The 84-foot-long, 6-foot-wide wooden platform, landscaped with planters, wire railing and furnished with 14 café tables and 50 chairs, was requested and installed by two local restaurants for public use in this busy lunchtime and after-work district, where quality seating is in high demand during warmer months. While any member of the public may enjoy the seating, the platform was installed and by adjacent restaurants, which will maintain and remove it later this year at their own expense.
The MTA and NYCDOT announced the completion of bus priority lanes and related infrastructure on 149 St in the Bronx on Friday, Oct. 9.
The 2.7 miles of bus lanes along the highly-trafficked 149 St corridor are equipped with transit signal priority (TSP) technology. New enforcement cameras will help ensure that only buses and other essential vehicles utilize priority sections of the roadway.
The corridor is home to four popular bus routes (Bx2, Bx4, Bx17, and Bx19) and runs through some of the busiest destinations in the Bronx, including Lincoln Hospital.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit)
The MTA and NYCDOT announced the completion of bus priority lanes and related infrastructure on 149 St in the Bronx on Friday, Oct. 9.
The 2.7 miles of bus lanes along the highly-trafficked 149 St corridor are equipped with transit signal priority (TSP) technology. New enforcement cameras will help ensure that only buses and other essential vehicles utilize priority sections of the roadway.
The corridor is home to four popular bus routes (Bx2, Bx4, Bx17, and Bx19) and runs through some of the busiest destinations in the Bronx, including Lincoln Hospital.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit)
NYC DOT was joined by elected officials, community members and leaders rallied to urge the passing of Design Build.
NYCDOT held an international design competition to select a design to beautify the new pedestrian plazas in Times Square while awaiting a full redesign and permanent build-out. A jury, including representatives from the Times Square Alliance, the Mayor's Office and the Design Commission as well as an outside artist selected Cool Water, Hot Island from over 150 submissions and it was installed in July 2010.
Artist Molly Dilworth, best known in New York for her rooftop paintings, designed the mural based on the urban "heat-island effect," where cities tend to experience warmer temperatures than rural settings. The blues and light shades of the design reflect more sunlight and absorb less heat—improving the look of the popular pedestrian areas while also making it more comfortable places to sit.
Support was provided by donations made to the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City. The Mayor's Fund is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting innovative public-private partnerships and projects such as those of the DOT. Photos are courtesy of the Times Square Alliance.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Special Project
Cool Water, Hot Island by Molly Dilworth
Presented with Times Square Alliance and reNEWable Times Square
Broadway between 42nd and 47th Streets, Manhattan
The MTA and NYCDOT announced the completion of bus priority lanes and related infrastructure on 149 St in the Bronx on Friday, Oct. 9.
The 2.7 miles of bus lanes along the highly-trafficked 149 St corridor are equipped with transit signal priority (TSP) technology. New enforcement cameras will help ensure that only buses and other essential vehicles utilize priority sections of the roadway.
The corridor is home to four popular bus routes (Bx2, Bx4, Bx17, and Bx19) and runs through some of the busiest destinations in the Bronx, including Lincoln Hospital.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit)
The MTA and NYCDOT announced the completion of bus priority lanes and related infrastructure on 149 St in the Bronx on Friday, Oct. 9.
The 2.7 miles of bus lanes along the highly-trafficked 149 St corridor are equipped with transit signal priority (TSP) technology. New enforcement cameras will help ensure that only buses and other essential vehicles utilize priority sections of the roadway.
The corridor is home to four popular bus routes (Bx2, Bx4, Bx17, and Bx19) and runs through some of the busiest destinations in the Bronx, including Lincoln Hospital.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit)
The MTA and NYCDOT announced the completion of bus priority lanes and related infrastructure on 149 St in the Bronx on Friday, Oct. 9.
The 2.7 miles of bus lanes along the highly-trafficked 149 St corridor are equipped with transit signal priority (TSP) technology. New enforcement cameras will help ensure that only buses and other essential vehicles utilize priority sections of the roadway.
The corridor is home to four popular bus routes (Bx2, Bx4, Bx17, and Bx19) and runs through some of the busiest destinations in the Bronx, including Lincoln Hospital.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit)
According to NYCDOT, the retrofitting of Prospect Park West has led to the 16% decrease in crashes, the tripling of weekday cycling, and shorter crossing times for pedestrians.
photo: New York City Department of Transportation
The New York City Department of Transportation’s Art Program recently produced, “The 191st Street Tunnel Beautification Project,” at 191st Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Local Washington Heights artist Andrea Von Bujdoss (Queen Andrea), who specializes in typography, Fernando Carlo, Jr. (COPE 2), a recognized graffiti artist within the community, Nick Kuzsyk, a geometric design specialist, Nelson Rivas (Cekis), a Chilean-born muralist, and Jessie Unterhalter and Katey Truhn, Maryland-based public artists, were selected from a pool of 158 applicants, to each paint two, 200 foot long wall segments within the pedestrian Tunnel. The five murals add bright color and unique design to the 900 foot long space, which was formerly covered in graffiti tags and bland tan paint. Over the course of a week, each artist has left his or her mark within Washington Heights, aiming to create a safer and more beautified passageway for the thousands of pedestrians walking through it on a daily basis to access the 1 subway line.
NYCDOT Art Program, Special Projects
“Prismatic Power Phrases” by Andrea von Bujdoss (Queen Andrea)
“Caterpillar Time Travel” by Jessie Unterhalter and Katey Truhn
“Warp Zone” by Nick Kuszyk
“It’s like a Jungle Sometimes/Aveces es como una jungle” by Nelson Rivas (Cekis)
“Art is Life” by Fernando Carlo (Cope 2)
In partnership with Northern Manhattan Art Alliance
Special thanks to Alan Ket
191st Street Tunnel, West 191st Street and Broadway, Manhattan
Artist Andrea Legge received a BFA from the Ontario College of Art in Toronto and a MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She was a member of The Rivington School of Manhattan’s Lower East Side during the 1980s and served as Art Production Editor of the American ELLE magazine for a decade. In 2000, Andrea Legge co-founded the collaborative studio Legge Lewis Legge that focuses on public art and architecture.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
In the Bike Lane by Andrea Legge
Presented with New York Cares
Fort Hamilton Parkway between E. 5th St and Park Circle, Brooklyn