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31 sty 2022 · The resulting timeline gives a brief overview of the history and development of transit maps in New York City, with a specific focus on NYC subway maps (rather than trolleys, buses, etc.). As a tool, it walks viewers through both the development of the subway system in NYC, but also through the aesthetic evolutions of the rapid transit maps.
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New York City, being the most populous city in the United States, has a transportation system which includes one of the largest subway systems in the world; the world's first mechanically ventilated vehicular tunnel; and an aerial tramway.
New York transportation map: highways, railroads, canals, air lanes, and dredged channels: compiled and printed by the U.S. Geological Survey for the Bureau of Public Roads 1937. Rapid transit map of greater New York: showing house numbers at each station.
Construction of the first subway in New York City, the Interborough Rapid Transit underground railway or IRT, was officially begun on March 24, 1900 and completed, ahead of schedule, in late October, 1904.
The 1968 map shows shows the new KK service from 57th/6th to Broadway-East New York via the Chrystie Street Connection. Hand-redrawn by Michael Calcagno, patterned after the original map. Compare to the photo of the real map contributed by Chris Slaight.
10 maj 2016 · Facing more incoming commuters than any other county in the country, Manhattan’s population nearly doubles each day with swells of travelers from the outer boroughs, New Jersey, Long Island, the Hudson Valley, Connecticut, and beyond.
