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 ...

Revised subway maps for New York, Paris, London, and Tokyo reveal more about a city than just the best way to get from point A to point B. There’s a delicate art and sweet science to making a great ...

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 ...

For the five New York City maps at least, NBC New York was able to get a bit of information about their backstory. The local news station says they were the work of Reddit user Isiah Bryant, a 15-year ...

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 ...

MTA unveils new NYC subway map for the first time in nearly 50 years — but straphangers aren’t thrilled: ‘This map sucks’ The MTA unveiled a fully redesigned subway map for the first time in nearly 50 ...

The map of New York City’s subway may be getting a makeover. Six new map designs have popped up inside the 86th Street station in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. The maps currently works in progress and the MTA ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers at an MIT lab have devised a way to determine how well straphangers can comprehend a subway map in a single glance. Massimo Vignelli really did know what he was doing. The most famous New ...

For two days only, you can take a piece of the New York City subway home with you. The MTA is hosting its annual memorabilia and collectibles sale in Brooklyn this week, putting novelty items like ...