Some lines do not follow a logical street so I didn't name them. We exist to live above ground, not underground, so I felt having a little knowledge about where the underground paths take you can give you some more agency over your experience in the subway. There's a disconnect between the subway, underground, and "reality" above ground. You'll see this a lot on the signs in the subway, so it's nice to know what it refers to. If you don't know what that means, it helps to see, highlighted, CONEY ISLAND/STILLWELL AVE. For instance, BDFN & Q trains all have Coney Island/Stillwell Ave as one of their directions. Often, the directions for each train are referred to by their last stops. Check the TrainTime app to see new options and plan your trip. The terminus/direction of each train line. We're running longer Penn Station trains, more Brooklyn trains, and adding staff at Jamaica to help you get around. The Strategy: Strip away individual stops and keep everything referring to two things:ġ. I've been working on it obsessively for hours at a time, for about four years. I conceived this about six months after moving to the city, when I still had the eyes of a newcomer, but the knowledge of a regular passenger. This is probably more useful/endearing to a person who has used the subway a lot. See on Elevated Sections of the Subway.My main thesis was to explain the Big Picture of the subway system, describing the general arrangement of the system. I’m using subway route data from Steven Romalewski, who converted MTA GTFS data into shapefiles. Ride the New York subway, and there is a good chance it is using equipment dating to World War II. 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 New York City subway system has 27 lines and 472 stations, which is more than any other system in the world. 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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