For four decades, New Yorkers have used a more geographic-based map. John Tauranac, former chair of the MTA's map committee in the 1970s, led the push for this approach.A new map designed by a ...

For fans of transit cartography, the New York Subway Map Debate of April 20, 1978, is remembered as a legendary showdown between two irreconcilable approaches. On that evening inside Cooper Union ...

New York City's subway map has been largely unchanged since 1979, when a committee led by the Metropolitan Transit Authority laid those now instantly recognizable colors over the streets of the ...

The New York City subway map from the MTA received its first major makeover in decades By Andrew Siff , Brad Luck and Nelson Hsu Published April 2, 2025 • Updated on April 2, 2025 at 4:53 pm ...