Become a paid member to listen to this article. 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 ...

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 Hudson & Manhattan Railroad offered women-only cars between Manhattan and Hoboken (today’s PATH line) from April to July 1909. In trial runs, the last car of each train was known as a ...

Closer view. Here’s a closer look at how the new and old subway maps compare through Manhattan. The MTA graphic design team made changes up to the last minute, including making it clear at hubs ...

Bike deliveryman wins $22.75 million from MTA after 2017 accident where he fell onto train tracks from a chipped subway ...

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 ...

For four months in 1909, the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad trialed a women-only car between Hoboken, New Jersey and Manhattan. By Ryan Erik King January 4, 2023 6:00 pm EST Bettmann/Getty Images ...

The MTA has a new subway map, and it’s directly inspired by a design the agency retired in 1979 after riders complained it was hard to read.. That old map, created by the late Italian designer ...

The first approach came in our 1976 atlas Seeing NY, the official MTA Travel Guide [fig.1] where we used one bright red line for all the routes on a geographically accurate scale base map with ...

Wednesday’s subway pushing wasn’t the only random attack last week. Moments before he shoved the woman at 53rd Street and Fifth Avenue, just beneath MoMA, the suspect, Sabir Jones, punched a ...