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 ...

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 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 five ...

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 ...

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 ...

It seems like a few times a year, some intrepid young designer takes a crack at redesigning the NYC subway map, whether by updating and tweaking Massimo Vignelli's classic 1972 design or going off-the ...

When New York City's Mass Transit Association unveiled its first new subway map in nearly half a century earlier this year, cartographic straphangers may have simply seen the D and the F train lines ...

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 ...