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Exploring new ways to help you get around with reimagined maps

We're looking at how our printed transit maps can work with our digital maps and real-time service information to provide a more complete picture of how service runs at any given moment.

We're testing out four new maps, which show different ways of sharing information about buses, subways, and the neighborhoods they serve. Our new focus no longer relies on a one-map solution, but instead uses a collection of printed maps and diagrams that work together, each one providing details about different types of transit information.

Where to find the pilot locations

Manhattan

  • Bowling Green 
  • Cortlandt St 
  • WTC Cortlandt 
  • World Trade Center 
  • Park Place 
  • Fulton St
  • Chambers St 
  • 14 St-Union Sq 
  • 34 St-Herald Sq 
  • 34 St-Penn Station 
  • 34 St-Hudson Yards 
  • 42 St-Bryant Pk  / 5 Av 
  • Times Sq-42 St 
  • Grand Central-42 St 
  • Lexington Av/53 St  / 51 St 
  • Lexington Av/ 59 St 
  • 59 St-Columbus Circle
  • 68 St-Hunter College
  • 72 St
  • 116 St 

The Bronx

  • 138 St-Grand Concourse
  • 149 St-Grand Concourse
  • 161 St-Yankee Stadium
  • 167 St
  • 174-175 Sts
  • Norwood-205 St

Brooklyn

  • Jay St-MetroTech 
  • Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr 
  • Crown Heights-Utica Av
  • Franklin Avenue Shuttle 
  • Nostrand Av
  • Newkirk Av-Little Haiti
  • 86 St
  • Coney Island-Stillwell Av

Queens

  • Jackson Hts-Roosevelt Av
  • 74 St-Broadway
  • 90 St-Elmhurst Av
  • Forest Hills-71 Av

 

A man in a blue shirt looks at a subway diagram that has been installed on the wall of a subway station.
Four transit maps are installed on the wall of a subway station. Two men are walking by, one in a white shirt and the other in a red checked shirt.

Our reimagined maps

The Subway Diagram lays out the entire city-wide subway network, with each subway represented by its own line. So for example, along 8th Ave in Manhattan, there are three blue lines, one each to represent the , , and .

The subway diagram can help visualize how each subway line works more easily, but it is not meant to be geographically accurate.

The Bus Connection map shows all nearby bus connections and the routes they take to other areas.

The Close-By Neighborhood map provides you with detailed information about immediate connections and points of interest within a short walk of the station.

Finally, the City-Wide Geographic map displays a geographically accurate subway system, and shows the entire Select Bus (SBS) network. This map is more representative of the physical space and is to-scale, so that distances between locations are accurately shown.