Andy Wiley-Schwartz

Background

About Andy Wiley-Schwartz

I have over 25 years of experience working with transportation agencies, mayor’s offices, planners, property owners, civic groups and communities to develop and implement projects and policies that enliven their city streets, balance uses in the right of way and provide economic and social returns for their cities and neighborhoods. I have extensive experience both nationally and internationally in strategic planning, organizational development, community process and redeveloping streets into public spaces. Since 2014, I have been a consultant at Bloomberg Associates where I work alongside Janette Sadik-Khan to help mayors and their agencies deliver on visionary proposals to transform their transportation agencies along with their streets and public spaces. I have worked actively in nearly a dozen US cities from Oakland to Tampa and from Atlanta to Detroit; and internationally in Mexico City, Bogota, Rio, Rome, Athens, Tel Aviv and Milan. Previously, I was the first ever assistant commissioner for public space at the New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT) under Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. I led a seven-year effort to reposition the city’s streets as public spaces, created the first Public Space Department in a city DOT and developed and launched the NYC Plaza Program where I oversaw the development of 60 plazas, creating over 26 acres of new public space from existing rights-of-way. I managed over $250 million in capital projects including the redesign of Times Square, and I negotiated the country’s first public-private partnerships for on-street public space, a model now being replicated around the world. At NYCDOT I also created the CityBench, Weekend Walks, and Street Seats programs, and was the co-author of the first New York City Street Design Manual.