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The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system in the New York City boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx. It is owned by the government of New York City and leased to the New York City Transit Authority, [14] an affiliate agency of the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). [15]
- List of New York City Subway Stations
The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system that...
- A (New York City Subway Service)
The A Eighth Avenue Express is a rapid transit service in...
- New York City Subway Nomenclature
New York City Subway nomenclature is the terminology used in...
- S (New York City Subway Service)
The current bullet for the three shuttles. Three services in...
- Proposed Expansion of The New York City Subway
Since the opening of the original New York City Subway line...
- New York City Transit Authority
The New York City Transit Authority (also known as NYCTA,...
- History of The New York City Subway
The New York City Subway tried to keep its budget balanced...
- No Pants Subway Ride
Participants of No Pants Subway Ride inside a Seattle Light...
- IRT Subway
The original IRT subway as it existed following the...
- R160
The R160 is a class of New Technology Train subway cars...
- List of New York City Subway Stations
The newest New York City Subway stations are part of the Second Avenue Subway, and are located on Second Avenue at 72nd, 86th and 96th streets. They opened on January 1, 2017. Stations that share identical street names are disambiguated by the line name and/or the cross street each is associated with.
- Early Maps
- Unified System Maps
- Current Map
- Future Maps
- Color Coding For Subway Routes
Original maps for the privately opened Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), which opened in 1904, showed subway routes as well as elevated routes. However, IRT maps did not show Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT) routes; conversely, BMT maps did not show IRT routes, even after the Dual Contracts between the IRT and BMT. In fact, even...
1940–56: Separate companies' maps
After the subway operating companies were taken over by the Board of Transportation in July 1940, maps continued to be issued until 1942 in the characteristic style of the individual companies. Thus the IRT Division issued maps in the style of the former IRT company, and the BMT Division issue maps in the style of the former BMT company. In order to have an integrated design, however, the Board brought in externally produced maps. From 1943 to 1952, the Board purchased stocks of Andrew Hagstr...
1958 redesign by George Salomon
In 1955, George Salomon submitted a proposal to the NYCTA to redesign not only the map but the entire system of nomenclature. Salomon was a German émigré, and his proposed system of route names and colors mirrored that of the Berlin U-Bahn. He had also spent a year studying under Eric Gill in England and expressed admiration for the London Underground map. His map adopted the same modernist style as Harry Beck's London map, and was the first map of the New York City Subway to follow a systema...
1967 redesign for the Chrystie Street Connection
To relieve bottlenecks in the subway system, a series of major works were carried out in the 1960s. One of them, the 2-mile (3.2 km) Chrystie Street Connection in Chinatown, Manhattan, had a major impact on the subway map, as it unified the BMT and IND divisions of the subway, thereby rendering obsolete the three-colored network maps that been used since the 1930s. The Transit Authority had to devise a new map design by the time the Chrystie Street Connection opened, so in 1964, they opened t...
The current official map of the subway system, based on the Tauranac redesign, incorporates a complex cartography to explain the subway's nomenclature. Different services that share a "trunk line" were assigned the same color; the trunk lines comprised all of the main lines within lower and midtown Manhattan, as well as the IND Crosstown Line, a tr...
In 2020, the MTA displayed several new map concepts at the 86th Street station on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line following a renovation project.Six maps were displayed: 1. A current version of the Vignelli map 2. A neighborhood map designed in conjunction with the Department of Transportation (already installed at all subway stations) 3. A bus map of t...
History of color coding
From 1904 to 1967, subway routes on the official subway map were drawn either in a single color or in three colors, which corresponded to the company that the route operated on — the IRT, BMT, or IND. Still, after the 1940 unification of the three companies' routes under the umbrella of a Board of Transportation—later the New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA)—the three networks continued to operate separately and were generally referred to by their old names. Both maps and the station signa...
Current service colors
The colors used to denote services in the current iteration of the subway map are as follows:
New York City Subway service Flushing Local Flushing Express Manhattan -bound 7 local train of R188s leaving 52nd Street Queens -bound 7 express train of R188s leaving Fifth Avenue Western end 34th Street–Hudson Yards Eastern end Flushing–Main Street Stations 22 (local service) 18 (express service) 8 (super express service) Rolling stock R188 (Rolling stock assignments subject to change ...
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By annual ridership, the New York City Subway is the busiest rapid transit system in both the Western Hemisphere and the Western world, as well as the eleventh-busiest rapid transit rail system in the world. The subway carried 2,027,286,000 riders in 2023.: 2 On October 29, 2015, more than 6.2 million people rode the subway system, establishing ...
