Temporary Art Installations on New York City Department of Transportation Property

Records from NYC DOT Art detail temporary art installations on city property, including their location and duration. The dataset includes columns for installation and removal dates, artist, title, partner organization, borough, and site type. It is maintained by data.cityofnewyork.us and was last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze the spatial distribution of installations across Boroughs using Latitude and Longitude coordinates.
• Study the duration of art projects by calculating the time between Installation and Removal dates.
• Identify frequent collaborators by analyzing the Partner and Artist columns across different Program/Initiative types.
• Categorize installations by their physical context using the Site Type and Project Type columns.

Strengths

• Contains 13 distinct columns describing each art project's metadata and location.
• Includes geospatial coordinates (Latitude, Longitude) for mapping analysis.

Limitations

• Unknown total row count prevents assessment of dataset scale and completeness.
• Sample data is unavailable, making it impossible to verify data quality, consistency, or presence of null values.

Provenance

Source

data.cityofnewyork.us

Collection Method

Collected by NYC DOT Art through collaborations with community-based organizations and artists.

Time Range

Temporal coverage is indicated by the Year column but specific range is unknown.

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Spatial coverage is limited to New York City, specifically NYC DOT property, as indicated by Borough and Site Location columns.