Planning, Design and Policy Analyst, Public Realm

• DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Posted on

09/02/2026

• Full-time

Location

MANHATTAN

• Exam may be required

Department

Office of Bicycle/Pedes Prgms

Salary range: $86,749.00 – $86,749.00

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Job Description

Transportation Planning and Management (TPM) is responsible for the safe, efficient, and environmentally responsible movement of people and goods on the City’s streets, supporting the larger goals of economic and social vitality for people living, working, and doing business in New York City. The Division’s responsibilities include planning, street design, technical analysis, signs, transit development, freight mobility and markings, ensuring the safety of motor vehicle occupants, pedestrians, and cyclists. The Office Livable Streets (OLS) is tasked with prioritizing strategic planning, community engagement, research, policy, design, implementation, and long-term management. Their goal is to create streets that are livable, supporting safety, accessibility, inclusion, resiliency, active modes, community cohesion, and economic vitality citywide. Additionally, they aim to enhance New York City’s pedestrian, bicycle, and micromobility networks, providing comfortable, connected, green, and reliable transportation options across the five boroughs. They place special emphasis on Priority Investment Areas, mode shift, and reimagining streets. The office also develops innovative new programs, design typologies, project delivery, and analysis tools to meet the demands of a rapidly changing population with evolving needs and technologies. The multidisciplinary Public Realm Unit is responsible for engaging New Yorkers to reimagine and utilize their city streets as public space and oversees the development of programs, policies, projects, and management tools to elevate the public realm experience for its primary user – the pedestrian. Through initiatives and programs ranging from the Pedestrian Mobility Plan, Public Space Programming, the Public Space Equity Program, Open Streets, Super Sidewalks, Street Seats, Complex Intersections, Shared Streets and Plazas, the Public Realm Unit creates vibrant and inclusive spaces that improve safety, accessibility, and walkability while enhancing commerce, community, and culture throughout New York City.

OLS is seeking a motivated Planning, Design and Policy Analyst for its Public Realm Unit within the TPM Division. Reporting to the Public Realm’s Director of Strategic Initiatives (SI), the successful candidate will work closely with the SI Director and Transportation Planning and Management teams to produce neighborhood scale planning and transportation studies that promote equity, walkability, mode shift, and opportunities for greening. This work will include the development of metrics and benchmarks for project evaluation (pre- and post-implementation), strategies to provide comprehensive data analysis and recommendations to inform planning and design initiatives for the Public Realm unit. The role will also include the creation of public facing materials that may include maps, diagrams, and conceptual designs. and regular reports which help communicate the mission and objectives of the Public Realm unit as well as synthesize regular outcomes and benefits of the work.

The Planning, Design and Policy Analyst responsibilities include, but are not limited to, neighborhood planning, project coordination, data identification, collection, and analysis, with a specific emphasis on traffic capacity analyses, research and reporting, project management and development of visual aids to represent work deliverables. The person in this role will be responsible for managing and executing a select number of projects from inception through completion with attention to further the overall goals of the Office of Livable Streets. The selected candidate will work with internal DOT units, as well as outside agency partners including NYC Parks, Economic Development Corporation, City Planning, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and as well as members of the community and local stakeholders. In addition, Planning, Design and Policy Analyst may work with other units to identify and define project scopes for current and future work including Open Streets and Programming, Street Improvement Projects (SIP), neighborhood analyses, or public realm initiatives. Additional responsibilities may include project management …