The Issue: A 60-year-old woman was beaten with her cane in a Harlem subway station. The 60-year-old woman who was cane-whipped 50 times in our “safe” subways, allegedly by an ex-con cretin, never had ...

Learn about the process of creating the official MTA subway map of 1979, the basis of the map we use today Hear about "The Great Subway Map" debate of 1978 between Tauranac and Massimo Vignelli Get ...

How do you best represent the complex New York City subway system on an easy-to-read map? That's a challenge John Tauranac has been working on since the 1970s, when he chaired the MTA's subway map ...

First, transit officials in New York City said goodbye to the Metrocard. Now the MTA is waving farewell to another transit icon: the famed subway map. “This is a lynchpin moment,” said MTA Chairman ...

The Issue: New York City rings in the new year with yet another subway-shoving incident. How many people are going to be pushed onto the subway tracks before the politicians actually do something more ...