Light Lane

Light Lane is funded through a grant provided by the NYC’s Department of Small Business Services (SBS), and with support from the New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) and Con Edison.

Designed and engineered by LeMonde Studio, a Montreal-based design and production firm, Light Lane is a light-based, interactive artwork featuring three rideable, stationary bicycles aligned in a row at each location. The bicycles are intended for interactive play, and, when pedaled, emit familiar music inspired by iconic and globally celebrated Queens-based musicians, including Salt-N-Pepa, A Tribe Called Quest, and Run DMC. While the bikes are in motion, rotating projections appear on adjacent sidewalks, depicting recognizable icons such as musical notes, snowflakes, crowns, hearts and saxophones, spreading light-filled joy, and celebrating Jamaica’s rich musical and cultural history.

Light Lane is located on the 165th Street Mall, a public pedestrian plaza known for its Hip-Hop music history and the storied Colosseum Mall. On Jamaica Avenue at Union Hall Street, situated outside of the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (JCAL), three Light Lane bicycles can be found in the newly established pedestrian plaza, bringing movement and activity to the busy sidewalk extension. Finally, on the Parsons Boulevard Plaza located between Jamaica and Archer Avenues, another set of three bicycles creates a welcoming and enjoyable scene for the thousands of workers, residents and visitors to Jamaica who enter and depart the Parsons-Archer subway station each day.

Light Lane will be on display through mid-March, serving as a beacon for the neighborhood, and showing off Jamaica's vitality, its potential, and its community’s faith in and excitement for its very bright future.

Visit Downtown Jamaica through March 15th and hop on a bike alone or with a friend to experience Light Lane.