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.

The New York subway system map just got its first full redesign since 1979. One of the world’s most iconic and controversial ...

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

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

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has introduced a newly redesigned subway map for New York City.

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

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

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has officially replaced the version that’s been in use since 1979.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The Metropolitan Transportation Agency has unveiled the first new map for the New York City subway system in almost half a century. On Wednesday, the transportation agency ...

The MTA formally unveiled yesterday its new subway map that will go up in stations and train cars all over town.

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 ...