A lot has changed on the subway in the last 45 years, including stations, train cars, platforms, and even how we pay. But one thing that hadn't changed is the subway map. That is, until now.

There’s a new reason to lean awkwardly over a seated passenger during your next train ride: New York City has a new subway map.. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Wednesday unveiled ...

The MTA on Wednesday unveiled a new “easily readable” New York City subway map for the first time in nearly 50 years — but straphangers knocked the redesigned graphic as a “complicated ...

First, transit officials in New York City said goodbye to the Metrocard. Now the MTA is waving farewell to another transit icon: the famed subway map. “This is a lynchpin moment,” said MTA ...

The best map designs are typically bold, bright and simple, but that doesn't mean they can't be stylish too. Taking inspiration from the beloved NYC subway map design of the late 60s, the new map ...

What was the original NYC subway map? When the subway opened in 1904, maps just depicted the routes of the individual companies that ran them—the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), the ...

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 ...

The redesigned map of the New York City system, the first to be introduced in nearly half a century, is reminiscent of a version from the 1970s that was reviled by many traditionalists.