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Tommi Moilanen’s New Subway Map Design Makes It Easier to Navigate the City
The subway is one of New York City’s greatest assets, but this only holds true if you can actually navigate through the various tunnels and platforms. And despite the countless transportation apps out...
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Yesterday, 6sqft brought you this modern subway map redesign by Tommi Moilanen. His version keeps the current map’s basic structure, but infuses it with a bit of Massimo Vignelli‘s famous graphic...
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25 Percent of Subway Station Entrances Are Closed, Worsening Congestion
Image via FEMA There’s so much to kvetch about when it comes to the MTA and poor subway service: unprecedented debt, increased ridership that hasn’t been matched with increased service and outdated...
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Think You Can Design a Better NYC Subway System? Try It With Mini Metro
The New York subway system is a complex but pretty efficient network that (for the most part) gets us to where we need to get when we need to get there. But that’s not to say there aren’t some...
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The Story Behind Those Infamous ‘Sick Passenger’ Subway Announcements
Image via MTA/Flickr Admit it–despite your general concern for the well-being of your fellow New Yorkers, you can’t help roll your eyes when that dreaded “sick passenger” announcement comes over the...
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‘Open Gangway’ Subway Trains Getting a Trial Run in NYC
An open gangway subway in Berlin, photo via Second Avenue Sagas Despite the improved service that the MTA has been promising, most New Yorkers still find themselves crammed into subway cars like...
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Transit Museum Brings Back Its Vintage Subways and Buses for the Holidays
Via *Bitch Cakes*/Flickr Regardless of your faith, the holidays in New York City are a one-of-a-kind experience that many of us look forward to all year. For die-hard New Yorkers, it’s not so much...
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Subway Breaks One-Day Ridership Record With 6,217,621 Passengers
For reasons unknown, the third Thursday in October is traditionally one of the busiest days for the NYC subway. Last year, on October 30th, a record was set with 6,167,165 passengers, and now, the MTA...
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VIDEO: 10 Days and 120 Subway Stations in Two Minutes
Most New Yorkers would be overjoyed if they only had to witness their subway station for a hot second. But since we can’t teleport, this video from Snowday is the next best way to live out our...
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Governor Cuomo to Transform the Subway With Free Wi-Fi, USB Chargers, and...
Is there anything in NYC that Governor Cuomo does like? He started his crusade to overhaul our infrastructure back in July when he revealed renderings for a $4 billion update to LaGuardia Airport. But...
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Are Shuttle Buses a Viable Alternative to the L Train During a Shutdown?
one moment please...+ Expand- collapseImage via Allen1628famm/YouTube The MTA’s announcement of possible plans to close the L train for months or even years at a time to repair the Hurricane...
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Top 10 Transportation Proposals That Would Transform New York City
Commuting in and around NYC can at times be a daunting task, and with the all of the pending subway closures, things are about to get a bit more complicated. However, all hope is not lost, and a...
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Mapping World Cities That Already Have Open Gangway Subway Trains
Click here to enlarge map >> Just yesterday, the MTA revealed renderings of what their open gangway subway prototypes will look like. As 6sqft previsouly reported, when it was announced that the...
View ArticlePOLL: Will Open Gangway Subway Trains Be a Success in NYC?
New Yorkers are notoriously hard to impress, so it’s not surprising that some are finding fault with the MTA’s proposed open gangway subway trains, which are pretty much the norm everywhere else in the...
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Interactive Graph Compares L Train Commute Times and Rents With Other NYC...
We’re hearing lots of anguish and anxiety over the possibility of an L subway shutdown for repairs for as long as a year or more, and we’ve taken a look at some possible solutions. Now, we’ve asked the...
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Student Project Gets Subway Riders to Scratch and Sniff
“If You Smell Something, Smell Something Else.” Those words introduce a handful of signs that have been popping up at a few subway stations around the city, including Canal Street, Herald Square and...
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This Map Explains the Historic Tile Color System Used in NYC Subway Stations
Map by vanshnookenraggen.com via Reddit. We know the crowds that pack into our city’s subway cars each day are more than colorful enough, but the system also has a super-geeky color-coded navigation...
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Minimalist Subway Map Posters Are More About Beautiful Design Than Finding...
Cartographer Andrew Lynch has spent a lot of time looking at the NYC subway system. The CUNY Hunter alum recently perfected the entire system in a series of hypothetical but geographically accurate...
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City Filth, Decoded: The Gunk on Subway Platforms Actually Has a Name
Image: Xymox/Flickr Do you ever wonder what that black schmutz that collects on the subway platform is? Has all the discarded chewing gum in the world begun to mobilize? What if I put my bag on it?...
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Subspotting Map Project Shows Where You Can Get Phone Reception in the Subway
The MTA is apparently well into the middle phase of its project to wire 279 below-ground subway stations with cell reception, but as Citylab recently put it, “there are still places you can’t make a...
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