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 ...

Subway riders are leaving behind the MetroCard, orange-seat subway cars, and now the subway map too. Last week, the MTA unveiled a new subway map that officials say will be easier to read and navigate ...

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 ...

The New York City subway map is a precise tangle of bright, colorful lines. But it didn’t always look like that. The subways were assigned colors with the help of one R. Raleigh D’Adamo,a lawyer with ...

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 ...

Next Tuesday evening at Cooper Union, some of the titans of New York City subway map design will convene alongside map aficionados to talk shop. The setting is auspicious, as back in 1978 Cooper Union ...

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 ...

NEW YORK CITY — The MTA on Wednesday unveiled a new reimagined subway map for the first time since 1979. The new map simplifies riders' primary way finding asset while providing the most essential ...

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 ...

New York may get a reboot of the iconic 1970s subway map, if it likes. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is currently testing an update in nine stations, including Times Square and Grand ...

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 ...