The city has changed drastically over the past 40 years, yet the M.T.A. map designed in 1979 has largely endured. Asset 9 New York’s Subway Map Like You’ve Never Seen It Before ...

The map was drawn by Joseph Colton, who one of the most prominent map publishers in New York City, with a career spanning three decades from the 1830s to the 1850s.

As of publication, it includes more than 350 distinct neighborhoods, based on more than 37,000 responses. (The New York Times also contacted all 59 community boards and all 51 City Council members ...