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. Colton’s production was ...

New York City's subway map has been largely unchanged since 1979, when a committee led by the Metropolitan Transit Authority laid those now instantly recognizable colors over the streets of the ...

Debates like these have endured for ages, largely because there is no map that captures all of the city’s neighborhoods and their borders. “There are a million ways to slice New York City that ...