It may have taken more than two decades for the cash-strapped MTA to build a new subway station, but you don’t have to wait that long to create the New York City transit map of your dreams. Brand New ...

How do you best represent the complex New York City subway system on an easy-to-read map? That's a challenge John Tauranac has been working on since the 1970s, when he chaired the MTA's subway map ...

The MTA’s subway map may be getting a new look. Transit officials are quietly testing out five new maps in a display at 86th Street station in Brooklyn — including a subway diagram based off a ...

Learn about the process of creating the official MTA subway map of 1979, the basis of the map we use today Hear about "The Great Subway Map" debate of 1978 between Tauranac and Massimo Vignelli Get ...

If you spend enough time in any large subway system, you’ll catch visitors and locals alike squinting at the brightly colored, near incomprehensible lines on the subway map. The task of putting all ...

For all its colorful frenzied glory, the Tokyo Metro map isn’t the most complex subway guide in the world. New York and Paris both have it topped—at least in the eyes of one group of theoretical ...

The modern New York City subway map—the one that you see in subway stations and train cars—was born in 1964. A local lawyer named R. Raleigh D'Adamo drew it, and with it, won a redesign competition ...

In the late 1950s, a man by the name of Constant Nieuwenhuys was at work on a radical idea. The Dutch artist was busy sketching ideas for the New Babylon, a utopian society where man and woman were ...

New York City has the world’s largest, continually-operating subway system. For the most part, it makes getting around Gotham relatively easy, for not too much money. But for those who can’t climb up ...

Three lines on the Staten Island Railroad. A subway tunnel that runs from Astoria to East Harlem. An intricate rethinking of mass transit in the Bronx. These might sound like outlines for a drastic ...