The Vault is Slate's history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. This map, printed by the ...

Four are on Staten Island; one is the New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn. Over the past 40 years, the M.T.A. map has become a record of the changing city. Its design has endured because of its ...

New York's Metropolitan Transport Authority has released a redesigned map of its subway system, which maintains the colours of the prior one while "simplifying" it. The redesigned map was unveiled ...