![]() The earliest maps in the exhibit date back to the 19th century, long before there was an underground rail system to speak of, but they help provide context for the development of the subway system. (And yes, Vignelli’s once derided, and now beloved 1972 map is on view, too.) Hence the inclusion of objects like a Pantone board showing all of the colors used by Unimark’s Massimo Vignelli and Bob Noorda when they designed the now-iconic scheme used to denote the various subway lines. “If we just said, ‘This was this map, and that was that map,’ it wouldn’t be as rich and full a story,” Bencivenga explains. New York Subway Guide, 1972 Unimark International for Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Courtesy of the New York Transit Museum ![]() See on Elevated Sections of the Subway.Massimo Vignelli and Bob Noorda’s 1972 subway map. I’m using subway route data from Steven Romalewski, who converted MTA GTFS data into shapefiles. line (F/G) crossing the Gowanus Canal (see the Carroll St. Jamaica Line (J/Z/M) and Broadway Junction.Ĭonnections between Manhattan, northern Brooklyn, and southern Queens. The major areas of elevated track are correct, but short segments might be missing, and some of the structures shown are road bridges. I isolated the structures that roughly correspond with subway trackage. The City of New York provides a layer for transportation structures but doesn’t differentiate between subway elevated lines, road bridges, footbridges, and tunnel bellmouths. Maps of elevated structures on the New York City Subway.
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