New York Pioneers Asphalt Art

DOT Art leads the way in demonstrating successful asphalt activation strategies using public art.

Artist David Eppley worked with local third, fourth and fifth grade students to re-imagine and refresh ‘The Flatbush Trees’, a 1970-era concrete sign originally installed three decades ago to welcome visitors and spur economic activity in the Prospect-Lefferts Garden neighborhood. Image Credit: NYCDOT

A collaboration with students from The New School’s School of Constructed Environments BFA in Architectural Design, this is an example of an artistic adaption of New York’s popular Street Seats program- NYC’s version of parklets. Image Credit: NYCDOT

Created with over 18,000 vinyl butterflies and 10,000 plastic cups, Staten Island-based artist Lina Montoya transformed a gangly, chain-link fence surrounding a DOT facility in Staten Island into a moving art installation called ‘Las Mariposas Amarillas’ (The Yellow Butterflies). Image Credit: NYCDOT