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Here, in chronological order, a roundup of historical, replicas and future iterations of the New York City subway map. Until the 1940s, the subway was run by three competing companies ...

Some New Yorkers still refer to the subway lines by their original names: BMT, IND and IRT. When the map was digitized in 1998, the process introduced a few quirks. Street lines end abruptly and ...

Vintage subway trains will be brought into limited service in Brooklyn this June. On June 7 and 8, the trains will run ...

the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Co., or BMT, which opened in 1923; and the city-owned Independent Subway System, or IND, which opened in 1932. Each produced its own maps, most of them incorporating ...

where Lloyd explained that D'Adamo is responsible for giving our subway maps all that color—prior to 1967, there were only 3 colors, which represented the IRT, BMT, and IND lines. The photograph ...

The BMT also used numbers to identify their routes ... It didn’t help that there were also no official subway maps. Until the first official subway map produced by the transit authority came ...

Subway maps are a passion of many ... 1924: Only one line runs north-south in Manhattan, and BMT didn't run any trains above 59th Street, or to the Bronx. Meanwhile, because of the warped scale ...

In 1964, the New York City Transit Authority decided it wanted to make the subway easier ... companies—IRT, BMT, and IND. Yet, years later, riders were still subjected to maps that identified ...

Fifty-one years ago, a young lawyer entered a competition to redesign New York City's subway map. At the time ... by three separate companies. The IRT, BMT, and IND lines intersected and and ...

But the map was retired to a filing cabinet ... Company (IRT), the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), and the Independent Subway System (IND). In 1940, all three systems were sold ...