The new map’s bright colors and hard angles pop off the map, giving it a diagrammatic feel. New NYC Subway Map, Courtesy of the MTA The map echoes a short-lived 1972 map created by Massimo Vignelli.

In a city of world-class art museums and an instantly recognizable skyline, no image is more closely examined than the New York City subway map, the ubiquitous blue-and-taupe rectangle scrutinized ...

Debating the merits of various subway designs is a classic NYC pastime. There's Massimo Vignelli's 1972 design. There's the geographically accurate current version designed by Michael Hertz. There ...

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 ...

Bulletmap is a master transit map for NYC that includes all the subways and bus lines, created by a Queens resident, Anthony Denaro.

We've seen NYC subway maps made of concentric circles. We've seen NYC subway maps made to look like Washington, D.C.'s. We've seen NYC subway maps created by Italian designer Massimo Vignelli. But ...

French designer Jug Cerovic presents a cleaned-up New York City subway map, with some notable changes—namely, a geographically accurate Brooklyn.

In the 1960s, the design that inspired NYC's modern subway map was lost. Half a century later, it turned up in a basement.

There will be a new subway map dotting New York City starting next month, says the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.