Scheduleīoth the subway and the bus system operate on a 24-hour basis. If you're thinking of using the subway on a regular basis, the best option is to buy a MetroCard that can also be used on buses. You can check out the metro map here:Ī Single Ride Ticket is US$ 3 ( € 2.80).

The New York City Subway has 26 lines referred to by numbers or by letters. In addition, they don't tend to be very clean and quite frequently you'll see rats on the tracks. bowed to public pressure by replacing his diagrammatic map with a geographical one.As a result of it being old, the metro stations are sometimes small and stifling. Vignelli’s design to what they found above ground. But many New Yorkers were outraged by what they saw as the misrepresentation of their city, while tourists struggled to relate Mr. When the future graphic designer Michael Bierut made his first trip to New York in 1976, he took one home to Ohio as a souvenir. Vignelli had used his design skills to tidy up reality.ĭesign buffs have always loved his map for its rigor and ingenuity. Each station was shown as a dot and linked to its neighbors by color-coded routes running at 45- or 90-degree angles. Its designer, Massimo Vignelli, had sacrificed geographical accuracy for clarity by reinterpreting New York’s tangled labyrinth of subway lines as a neat diagram. The map was, indeed, riddled with anomalies, but that was the point. As for Central Park, it appeared to be almost square, rather than an elongated rectangle, three times bigger than the map suggested, and was depicted in a dreary shade of gray. The water surrounding the city was colored beige, not blue. Many stations seemed to be in the wrong places. No sooner had the Metropolitan Transportation Authority introduced a new map of the New York subway system on Aug.

Massimo Vignelli 1972 NYCTA New York Subway Guide

Ny mta map