The Metropolitan Transit Authority has unveiled the first major change to the famed New York City subway map since 1979. The historic map commuters are used to seeing on subway cars and in stations ...

The redesigned map of the New York City system, the first to be introduced in nearly half a century, is reminiscent of a ...

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.

When these companies were consolidated in the 1960s, a new map was created using a “Beckian grid.” Named after Harry Beck, ...

The map echoes a short-lived 1972 map created by Massimo Vignelli. That version, designed as a service map, introduced ...

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” brain teaser ...

The background of the new map is white, which is another way to create more contrast. The previous version has a beige ...

The redesigned map includes brighter colors, bold, straight lines, and a white background, all aimed at maximizing contrast ...

The MTA has unveiled a brand new map for the NYC subway, and while some commuters are a little hesitant about the change, design fans are delighted by the new look. The new map has been praised for ...

It’s the first time in 50 years that the MTA has issued a new subway map, a fact which carries a trainload of irony for ...