91-400: [REDACTED] The Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets station (shown as " Hoyt-Schermerhorn " on official subway maps ) is an express station of the New York City Subway , serving the IND Crosstown Line and the IND Fulton Street Line . Located at the intersection of Hoyt Street and Schermerhorn Street in Downtown Brooklyn , it is served by the A and G trains at all times, as well as
182-522: A block from Brooklyn Borough Hall . The company grew relatively quickly, buying out competitors and partners. In 1870 the company opened a larger second store near the present-day intersection of Fulton Street and Boerum Place. In March 1887, the store was moved to 484 Fulton Street, a new five-story building. The building included all modern convenience including electric lights, telephone services, elevators, restrooms, fitting rooms, and luxury duplex escalators. The bottom three floors were used for sales,
273-480: A building and goes to the northwestern corner of Bond and Schermerhorn Streets; it connects to fare control via a corridor. Another goes to the middle of the block between Hoyt and Bond Streets and is built inside 225 Schermerhorn Street. The third exit goes close to the northeastern corner of Hoyt and Schermerhorn Streets and is built inside 209 Schermerhorn Street (also known as 45 Hoyt Street, or Hoyt & Horn). The third exit contains an elevator from street level to
364-480: A consultant to the TA, and by Dante Calise, art director at Diamond Packaging, the firm that printed the subway map. On November 26, 1967, when the new connections opened, the new map came into use. There was also a map to explain all the newly rerouted services. The TA's new map, released in 1967, used Raleigh D'Adamo's principle of color-coding for the first time, but it suffered from what Vignelli called "fragmentation" and
455-545: A free mobile app download for iOS . On November 29, 2012, an Android version of the app was released. The Weekender, however, is only available as an online version, because it changes every week. The map design was inspired by Massimo Vignelli's 1972 subway map. A night-service map, created by Charles Gordanier of the MTA, was first released in January 2012. The maps come in printed versions or as an online PDF file. Formerly,
546-575: A geographically accurate map of the system's tracks, which was featured on Gothamist . In 2020, the MTA displayed several new map concepts at the 86th Street station on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line following a renovation project. Six maps were displayed: The MTA solicited feedback from the public on these new maps through an online survey. This test expanded in 2021 to include several other stations including 116th Street , Fulton Street , Nostrand Avenue , Times Square and in-car maps on
637-656: A hybrid diagram subway map that shows each route on its own line segments plus New York's parks, streets and neighborhoods; and Bullet Map, a map that shows bus and rail connections in more complexity. Additionally, the New York City Subway map has served as the subject of artistic endeavors. Among these are works by Fadeout Design and by Alexander Chen. In the past, companies such as Hagstrom Map had also published New York City Subway maps. There are other subway map spinoffs as well, such as New York City Subway track schematics. In 2014 an augmented reality subway map
728-672: A modern classic. However, the MTA deemed the map flawed due to its placement of geographical elements, specifically in the sense that elements only ran horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. By contrast, the Hertz map, which replaced the Vignelli design in 1979, contained elements that were more curved and "organic looking" while clarifying the nuances and complexities of the three former systems. The Hertz design, first created by Michael Hertz , remains in use with some stylistic differences and updates reflecting subway expansions since then. In 1985, with
819-474: A new building was made. Another led to the southwestern corner of Hoyt and Schermerhorn Streets, but is sealed on street level. Another led to the southeastern corner of Bond and Schermerhorn Streets, but is also sealed on street level. There is a closed passage next to the open Bond Street exit that leads to a street stair on the southwestern corner of Bond and Livingston Streets, one block north of Schermerhorn Street. This passage to Livingston Street further led to
910-585: A plaque in the station, saying its guidelines banned such an action. In 2018, the owner of a privately owned building above one of the station's entrances agreed to paint a mural dedicated to Jackson. As part of the construction of building at 209 Schermerhorn Street, developer Rose Associates built an elevator entrance, which opened in September 2018. The MTA announced in 2019 that the Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets station would become ADA-accessible as part of
1001-466: A separate stroke that bypassed all of the local stops. Transfers between stations were denoted by a thinner black stroke. The official map is not geographically accurate due to the complexity of the system. For example, since Lower Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn contain high densities of subway stations, these areas are shown as larger than they actually are. Likewise, Staten Island is shown in an inset because it does not have any subway stations, only
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#17328480292311092-556: A single operator. Since then, the official map has undergone several complete revisions, with intervening periods of comparative stability. The current iteration of the New York City Subway map dates from a design first published in 1979. The official map has evolved gradually under the control of the Marketing and Corporate Communications Department of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). The 1979 design
1183-573: A sketchbook. The curves in Siraisi's drawings helped to alleviate a feeling of disorientation that many riders felt when looking at the straight lines of the Vignelli map, as had been observed in Bronzaft's studies. The final assignment of colors was made by Tauranac. In September 1978, Tauranac met with Phyllis Cerf Wagner , head of the MTA Aesthetics Committee, and told her that the map project
1274-550: A special-purpose Regional Transit Map and create the Mass Transit Super Bowl plan. The map is based on a New York City Subway map originally designed by Vignelli in 1972. The map shows all the commuter rail, subway, PATH , and light rail operations in urban northeastern New Jersey and Midtown and Lower Manhattan highlighting Super Bowl Boulevard, Prudential Center, MetLife Stadium and Jersey City. The map brought in several innovations: As of September 2018 ,
1365-468: A three-high course consistent with many IND express stations. Captions reading "HOYT" are present in white lettering on a black background, with no mention of "Schermerhorn". On the eastbound (southern) side, some of these captions have been stickered-over with different station names as required for film and TV shoots while others are completely missing, though both sides have been used for filming. Both northern platforms have green-painted steel I-beams, while
1456-648: Is also mentioned in Soul Coughing 's song "The Brooklynites" from the Blue in the Face movie soundtrack . New York City Subway map Many transit maps for the New York City Subway have been designed since the subway's inception in 1904. Because the subway was originally built by three separate companies, an official map for all subway lines was not created until 1940, when the three companies were consolidated under
1547-632: Is currently out of service for the storage of trains at the New York Transit Museum. Though it may be difficult to see in some of the unlighted portions of the station, a tile band is present on the trackside walls–similar in color to the Crosstown Line stations north to Flushing Avenue, and the Fulton Line stations east to Franklin Avenue–Lime (Nile) Green with a medium Kelly Green border, set in
1638-454: The 42nd Street Shuttle . The station diagrams were no longer part of the project, while the four other concepts (the Vignelli map, area bus map, geographically accurate subway map, and flat station diagram) remain. The MTA hopes these maps would be better than the current Hertz map to show how the subway operates. The MTA reported in October 2021 that it had received positive feedback, prompting
1729-425: The C only stops here during the day. The full-time A runs express during the day and local at night, and the daytime-only C is local. The next stop for both A and C trains to the west (railroad north) is Jay Street–MetroTech ; the next stop to the east (railroad south) is Lafayette Street for local trains and Nostrand Avenue for express trains. For the G on the other hand, the station is between Bergen Street to
1820-600: The C train except at night. Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets was developed as an interchange station between the Fulton Street and Crosstown lines of the Independent Subway System (IND). Construction began around 1929, and it was opened on April 9, 1936. Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets has six tracks and four island platforms , with two platforms and three tracks for each direction of service. The innermost tracks in each direction originally served Crosstown Line trains, while
1911-511: The Cranberry Street Tunnel . However, initial Fulton Street service ran entirely local at the time, as the line only ran to Rockaway Avenue . Without express service, local trains provided service to Manhattan via the express tracks at this station while the HH shuttle was instituted to serve Court Street and the local tracks/platforms. On October 9, 1936, a public hearing was held to discuss
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#17328480292312002-679: The IND Eighth Avenue Line . There is no track connection between the Fulton and Crosstown lines. The outermost pair of tracks—the Fulton Street local tracks (Tracks A1 and A2)—and the outer two island platforms are no longer used in revenue service. To the west, the tracks continue under Schermerhorn Street to the decommissioned Court Street station, currently the site of the New York Transit Museum , in Brooklyn Heights . Track A2
2093-571: The Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey . It was the first Super Bowl played outdoors in a cold-weather city. Called the "Regional Transit Diagram", the map was initially produced specifically for Super Bowl XLVIII, and according to the MTA, "shows all inter-connections between the regional transit services, and highlights with a football icon those areas where Super Bowl related events will occur on both sides of
2184-629: The New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) took over the subway from the Board of Transportation. They continued to issue Hagstrom maps as official maps until 1956, but instituted two changes. First: from 1954 onwards, they acquired stocks of subway maps designed by Stephen Voorhies and printed with promotional material for the Union Dime Bank. This was done to save money, as the Voorhies map
2275-403: The New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA)—the three networks continued to operate separately and were generally referred to by their old names. Both maps and the station signage continued to refer to the historical IRT, BMT, and IND. In 1964, a major review of wayfinding was triggered by the combination of two things: the large influx of visitors for the 1964 New York World's Fair , which made
2366-416: The cardinal directions . However, the mobile version of Google Maps would not allow map rotation. In 2011, the MTA began to look at ways of displaying service disruptions due to weekend engineering works in a visual format. They invited Vignelli Associates (comprising at that time Massimo Vignelli, Yoshiki Waterhouse, and Beatriz Cifuentes) to develop a digital version of the 2008 map. On September 16, 2011,
2457-604: The 4, 5, and 6 trains would be shown as three bands, despite sharing the IRT Lexington Avenue Line , which would be depicted as a single band on the Tauranac/Hertz map. The real-time map also uses geographical landmarks, as the Tauranac/Hertz map does. In the beta version of the map, the bands were not necessarily correlated to their real-life locations. There are several privately produced schematics that are available either online or in published form—such as KickMap,
2548-507: The Cityana Gallery run by Benjamin Blom, exhibiting the committee's latest prototype map and offering a questionnaire for testing public reaction. Visitors said they liked the geographic information but disliked the use of a single color for all subway lines. In response, Tauranac then prepared a version with two colors, blue for the former IRT lines and red for the former BMT and IND lines. This
2639-544: The Hudson River. The diagram will appear on all transit provider websites, as well as on Super Bowl websites, guides, publications, mobile apps, and folding pocket maps." Since private cars were not allowed to park at the stadium, the use of public transportation had correspondingly been increased. With 400,000 visitors expected to the area and 80,000 attendees expected at the game itself, the MTA decided to work with New Jersey Transit (NJT), Amtrak , and NY Waterway to produce
2730-400: The MTA introduced a Vignelli Associates interactive subway map, called "The Weekender", to its website. As the title suggests, it is a way for riders to get information about any planned work, from late Friday night to early Monday morning, that is going on either on a service(s) or station(s) of the subway during the weekend only. On June 11, 2012, the MTA duplicated "The Weekender" site as
2821-625: The NYCTA to redesign not only the map but the entire system of nomenclature. Salomon was a German émigré, and his proposed system of route names and colors mirrored that of the Berlin U-Bahn . He had also spent a year studying under Eric Gill in England and expressed admiration for the London Underground map. His map adopted the same modernist style as Harry Beck 's London map, and was the first map of
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2912-431: The New York City Subway to follow a systematic visual language in diagrammatic form. The NYCTA rejected his systematic revision of nomenclature but did use his diagram of lines as its official map from 1958 to 1967. After delivering his map in 1958, Salomon had no further control of it, and disliked the NYCTA's addition of touristic information to his minimalist design, such as the map of 1964. To relieve bottlenecks in
3003-626: The Staten Island Railway. Nevertheless, the map is known to help tourists navigate the city, as major city streets are shown alongside the subway stations serving them. The New York City Subway map is an anomaly among subway maps around the world, in that it shows city streets, parks, and neighborhoods juxtaposed among curved subway lines, whereas other subway maps (like the London Underground map ) do not show such aboveground features and show subway lines as straight and at 45- or 90-degree angles. However, only ten buildings are actually shown on
3094-452: The agency to gradually install the four concepts systemwide in the coming months. From 1904 to 1967, subway routes on the official subway map were drawn either in a single color or in three colors, which corresponded to the company that the route operated on — the IRT, BMT, or IND. Still, after the 1940 unification of the three companies' routes under the umbrella of a Board of Transportation—later
3185-547: The agency's 2020–2024 Capital Program. The project was to be funded by congestion pricing in New York City , but it was postponed in June 2024 after the implementation of congestion pricing was delayed. The station has six tracks and four island platforms . Each platform is 660 feet (200 m) long, and the entire station is approximately 143 feet (44 m) wide from north to south. The A and G both stop here at all times while
3276-436: The beams on both southern platforms are tiled. Much of the ceiling at platform level is peeling due to water damage. A control tower is located at the eastern (railroad south) end of the outer southbound platform, and is staffed at all times except late nights. Due to its width, the southern half of the station had to be built under private property on the south side of Schermerhorn Street. The station's mezzanine , located over
3367-641: The bright spots of the subway system, which was then in poor condition. A New York Times editorial said, "Not all the news about New York's subways is bad", praising the production of a "readable subway map". After the Subway Map Committee was disbanded, Tauranac continued to privately improve his design. In a 2024 interview, Tauranac said that MTA's official subway map depicted Manhattan too unrealistically, lacked details about station amenities, and prioritized street names (rather than neighborhood names and local landmarks) in station names. Initially, there
3458-399: The center tracks were supposed to serve Fulton Street express trains and the outermost tracks were supposed to serve Fulton Street local trains to Court Street . However, Court Street was only served by a shuttle train from Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets, which stopped running in 1946. Today, all Fulton Street Line trains use the center tracks in each direction, and all Crosstown Line trains use
3549-497: The colors used for shuttles in 1967; in 1968 all six became green, and in 1979 all shuttles became dark gray. The maps were adjusted according to the service letters, numbers, and colors used at the time. Before the 1960s, service colors were disregarded, as maps usually showed all subway routes of one company in the same color, using only three colors for the lines of the three companies. Official maps Unofficial maps Frederick Loeser %26 Co. Frederick Loeser & Co.
3640-453: The construction of a passageway between the station and the Loeser's Department Store on the north side of Livingston Street. In November 1937, the city Board of Transportation approved the construction of a 250-foot (76 m) passageway between the station and the department store. The passageway opened on December 8, 1938. As part of the project, a stairway was constructed from the passageway to
3731-553: The diagram is still updated online and remains accessible on the MTA's website. In September 2015, a map detailing the number of calories burnt walking between adjacent subway stops was developed by Treated.com and featured on the websites of Gothamist and Time Out . A "beer map" was created to show the best bars that are close to each station. The website Thrillist also created a "judgmental map" of each station in Manhattan. In May 2017, Brooklyn resident Andrew Lynch created
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3822-522: The express tracks (Tracks A3 and A4) of the Fulton Street Line, served by the A and C. Both trains open their doors on their left, to the inner island platforms, not on the right, to the outer ones. East of the station, nighttime A and daytime C trains cross from express to local southbound and local to express northbound and all four tracks continue under Fulton Street ; west of the station, the express tracks curve north under Jay Street and continue as
3913-430: The final design, and the map cannot be said to be designed by one individual. According to The New York Times , the sculptor and painter Nobuyuki "Nobu" Siraisi drew sketches for the new version of the map, while psychologist Arline Bronzaft conducted studies to determine riders' responses to the old and new maps. Siraisi rode all of the routes with his eyes closed in order to feel each track curve, which he then drew in
4004-468: The fourth floor held administrative offices. The upper floor was used for restrooms, ladies' fitting rooms, buyer's samples, and various other applications. In 1887, Scottish born Lace and fabric importer John Gibb entered into partnership with Frederick Loeser. Upon Loeser’s death in 1903, the Gibb family assumed ownership of the business. John Gibb’s son, Walter Gibb was the last of the Gibb brothers involved in
4095-587: The individual companies. Thus the IRT Division issued maps in the style of the former IRT company, and the BMT Division issue maps in the style of the former BMT company. In order to have an integrated design, however, the Board brought in externally produced maps. From 1943 to 1952, the Board purchased stocks of Andrew Hagstrom's maps, overprinted with the Board's service information, and issued them as de facto official maps from token booths (e.g. 1948 ). In 1953,
4186-491: The innermost tracks, while the outermost tracks and platforms are not used for revenue service. Until 1981, the outer platforms were used by special trains to Aqueduct Racetrack , which stopped on the center tracks in each direction. Today, the abandoned tracks and platforms are only used on special occasions, such as for film shoots or moving trains to the New York Transit Museum at the former Court Street station. The mezzanine has also been used for film shoots, most famously for
4277-503: The locations of trains, depicted by darker bars moving along each respective subway route. Clicking on a station would also give information on the status of escalators and elevators in a station. Unlike similar apps, the real-time map does not use the Google Maps platform. Manhattan's street grid is oriented 29 degrees clockwise from true north, and the real-time map uses an orientation that follows Manhattan's street grid rather than
4368-451: The long-suffering wife of William Griffith Wilson (Bill W.), a co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. In 1947, upon the death of Walter Gibb’s only child, Althea Gibb Hunter, the business was sold to a syndicate of investors for a reported $ 8 (~$ 85.7 million in 2023) Million. They would operate it until 1952 when, following two years of steep losses, it was closed. Following this, neighboring Brooklyn retailer A. I. Namm & Son purchased
4459-491: The lower level of the 42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal station to the Aqueduct Racetrack station via the IND Eighth Avenue Line , Fulton Street Line, and IND Rockaway Line . Like the lower level at 42nd Street, the outer platforms at Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets provided a convenient place to segregate passengers who had paid the extra fare required to board the special trains. Consequently, Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets
4550-554: The map for Lower Manhattan . Ronan approved it, and in July 1970 the TA awarded Unimark a contract to design a new system map. The map was put together in the Unimark Office by Joan Charysyn under Vignelli's design direction. In April 1971, Vignelli left Unimark to set up Vignelli Associates with his wife and business partner, Lella Vignelli , also a partner in Unimark. By this time, the map
4641-591: The map was introduced on January 30, 2012. The current official map of the subway system, based on the Tauranac redesign, incorporates a complex cartography to explain the subway's nomenclature . Different services that share a "trunk line" were assigned the same color; the trunk lines comprised all of the main lines within lower and midtown Manhattan, as well as the IND Crosstown Line , a trunk line that does not go into Manhattan. Express services were denoted with
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#17328480292314732-406: The map was the introduction of color-coding by subway route, which D’Adamo recommended in his report to replace the outdated three-color scheme. After some experimentation, D’Adamo found a set of colors for subway lines that avoided clashes; Goldstein used D’Adamo's concept but invented his own color allocation; and finally Dante Calise at Diamond Packaging devised the color assignment that was used in
4823-622: The map: four are in Staten Island, while a fifth is the New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn. The current map, significantly changed from Tauranac's original redesign, uses over 20 font styles. In October 2020, the MTA launched a digital version of the map showing real-time service patterns and service changes, designed by Work & Co . The real-time map uses a variation of the Vignelli map, with each route being depicted on its own band rather than being grouped by their trunk color. For instance,
4914-406: The maps were only available online or at certain stations, but as of October 2014 , the maps started to be issued at all stations in the New York City Subway and Staten Island Railway systems. A special transit map was designed by Yoshiki Waterhouse at Vignelli Associates for Super Bowl XLVIII , the " Mass Transit Super Bowl ". The game was played on February 2, 2014, at MetLife Stadium at
5005-406: The mezzanine. In addition to the open entrances, there are numerous sealed passages and exits; a count indicated eight closed street stairs. One was built into 189 Schermerhorn Street, but may have been demolished when a new building was erected. Another was built into the building occupying 227 to 253 Schermerhorn Street. Two more were built into 33 Bond Street, but one may have been demolished when
5096-406: The northern half of the station directly underneath Schermerhorn Street, contains a New York City Transit Police precinct office where the operations of NYPD Transit District 30 are headquartered, and several New York City Transit Authority offices. From the mezzanine, there are three staircases to each active platform, a turnstile bank, and a token booth. There are three exits. One is within
5187-407: The now-defunct Loeser's Department Store , which eventually became a McCrory's . Part of the mezzanine tilework at this location still features navy blue and gold Art Deco designs, including large plaques bearing the store's logo. These had previously been shop windows. The unused portions of the Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets station have appeared in several films, TV episodes, and videos. The station
5278-575: The privately opened Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), which opened in 1904, showed subway routes as well as elevated routes. However, IRT maps did not show Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT) routes; conversely, BMT maps did not show IRT routes, even after the Dual Contracts between the IRT and BMT. In fact, even in 1939, the year before the unification of the IRT, BMT, and Independent Subway System (IND) into one entity, maps by private businesses were still being printed showing only
5369-492: The published map of 1967. Those colors were inherited by Unimark International and used in the famous 1972 Vignelli map. That color scheme was rearranged by Tauranac in 1979 to create a trunk-colored map. The colors used to denote services in the current iteration of the subway map are as follows: This is a table of when each service has existed (and been signed for the public). Shuttles were SS until 1985, when they became S (which had been used for specials). See here for
5460-544: The result passed to Diamond Packaging, who refined the design and printed the NYCTA's first route-colored subway map in November 1967. To coordinate with the new color scheme in the map, the NYCTA began to roll out new station and car signage based on a design by Vignelli and Robert Noorda of Unimark International , using the route markers derived from those specified in D’Adamo's report. The biggest innovation in this redevelopment of
5551-540: The results of the Subway Map Competition. The winners of the competition were R. Raleigh D’Adamo, Harris Schechtman, and Mary & John Condon. The TA forwarded D’Adamo's report on his competition map to Professor Stanley Goldstein of Hofstra University, who was engaged to develop prototype maps. Goldstein reported in June 1965, and two of his prototype maps were combined by the TA Designs Division, and
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#17328480292315642-471: The routes of one company. The three subway companies also published their own maps, showing their own routes. Routes were not distinguished from each other on subway maps until 1958. The first route maps were aesthetically pleasing, but had the perception of being more geographically inaccurate than the diagrams today. The design of the subway map by Massimo Vignelli , published by the MTA between 1972 and 1979, has since become recognized in design circles as
5733-509: The south side of Livingston Street. Due to low ridership, the Court Street station was closed and the shuttle was discontinued in 1946. All Fulton Street service was routed via the express tracks at this station to Jay Street – Borough Hall . This eliminated any use for the local tracks and they have been out of service since. The outer platforms were also closed until 1959, when the special service to Aqueduct Racetrack began. Service ran from
5824-449: The south side of Schermerhorn Street between Bond and Nevins Streets was condemned to facilitate the project. Like other stations along the lines, it was constructed via shallow cut-and-cover methods, with the street covered by wooden planks. In September 1929, a portion of the "plank road" above the station site collapsed. In 1935, Sixteen Sycamores Playground was constructed on a portion of the land condemned for subway construction east of
5915-446: The station at 57th Street and Sixth Avenue . Starting the following weekend, the maps began to be installed in stations and in subway cars. The maps became available at token booths for riders on August 7. It cost $ 105,000 to produce. Along with the map, a subway directory was unveiled. This specific one showed how to get from 57th Street to the other subway stations in the system in an alphabetical listing. Though critically acclaimed,
6006-576: The station. The station was ceremonially opened by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia on April 9, 1936, with the station serving both Fulton Street Line local and express trains. The station cost about $ 3 million to build, including $ 131,000 for the tilework. This station began serving Crosstown Line trains on July 1, 1937, when the Crosstown Line was extended from Nassau Avenue . From this station, northbound Fulton local trains were planned to continue to Court Street and terminate there. Express trains would turn north under Jay Street and continue to Manhattan via
6097-453: The store, and when he died in 1912, his widow Florence Swan Gibb became its principal owner. The firm would expand to branches in Bay Shore and Garden City, Long Island, New York. During the early 20th century, The company provided china for the immigration station at Ellis Island . In 1934-36, Lois Wilson was a sales clerk and interior decorator at Loeser's Department Store. Lois Wilson was
6188-475: The subway and bus maps confusing to some visitors; and the connection of the BMT and IND networks through the 60th Street Tunnel Connection and the soon-to-be-opened Chrystie Street Connection , which rendered the three-color scheme unworkable. In 1964, the NYCTA launched the Subway Map Competition to get public input on redesigning the subway map, and in 1966 it engaged Unimark International to advise on signage and on
6279-423: The subway map proved to be unpopular with many riders. In 1974, William Ronan was replaced by David Yunich as chairman of the MTA. Yunich was formerly an executive at Macy's department store, and brought an explicit intention to 'sell' the subway to riders. He brought over from Macy's Fred Wilkinson who in 1975 formed the Subway Map Committee to design a new map to replace Vignelli's. At the end of 1976, Wilkinson
6370-506: The subway system, a series of major works were carried out in the 1960s. One of them, the 2-mile (3.2 km) Chrystie Street Connection in Chinatown, Manhattan , had a major impact on the subway map, as it unified the BMT and IND divisions of the subway, thereby rendering obsolete the three-colored network maps that been used since the 1930s. The Transit Authority had to devise a new map design by
6461-449: The subway's elimination of double-lettered routes , the map also drastically changed; routes on the maps became less straight and more circular, a design that persists today. " Trunk lines " were rearranged to be one color, rather than the multicolored routes shown on the former Vignelli maps. Two maps were drawn that showed routes for a never-built proposed expansion of the New York City Subway : one in 1929 and one in 1939. A subway map
6552-571: The then-new R160B subway cars in 2005. After Michael Jackson died in 2009, New York City Council member Letitia James proposed to rename the station after Jackson , who had filmed the video for his song " Bad " there. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority rejected the idea. MTA spokesperson Kevin Ortiz said that the agency was developing guidelines for station naming-rights deals in order to raise money. In addition, naming stations after individuals could confuse riders. The MTA also declined to put
6643-513: The time the Chrystie Street Connection opened, so in 1964, they opened the Subway Map Competition to the general public. There were three winners; one of them, R. Raleigh D'Adamo, submitted an explanatory report with his map, which detailed his innovative proposal to color-code the subway by individual routes rather than by historic operating company. This concept was implemented by Dr. Stanley Goldstein of Hofstra University , working as
6734-574: The video of Michael Jackson's single " Bad ". Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets was constructed as a junction between the Fulton Street and Crosstown lines of the Independent Subway System (IND), and part of the section of the Fulton Street subway under Schermerhorn Street between Court Street and Bond Street. Surveying by the New York City Board of Transportation along Schermerhorn Street began in 1928, and construction began around 1929. Property on
6825-519: The west (railroad south) and Fulton Street to the east (railroad north). The innermost pair of tracks (Tracks E1 and E2) belongs to the Crosstown Line, served by the G. East of the station, they run under Lafayette Avenue; west of the station, they turn south and merge with the IND Sixth Avenue Line to form the IND Culver Line under Smith Street. The second-outermost pair of tracks are
6916-500: Was "dead in the water" because he could not make the map he wanted, since there was no funding to change to signage to match the change in the map. Cerf Wagner was subsequently able to secure the funds. In June 1979 the finished subway map was published in time for the Diamond Jubilee, the subway's 75-year anniversary. Paul Goldberger praised the map as "the clearest and most usable map the subway system has had in years", and one of
7007-526: Was a large department store in Brooklyn, New York . Their flagship store on 484 Fulton Street served as one of Brooklyn's major landmarks for 65 years. The store closed down in February 1952. Founded in 1860 as Loeser and Dinkelspiel by German immigrant Frederick Loeser (1833-1911); the company started out as an embroidery and trimmings business. The original store was situated at 277 Fulton Street , roughly
7098-449: Was almost complete, but was subject to corrections and modifications requested by Raleigh D'Adamo, who was now Head of the Office of Inspection and Review at the MTA. These changes were carried out by Charysyn, who also oversaw the printing of the map. Unimark's liaison with the MTA during this project was handled by Norbert Oehler. The map was unveiled by Ronan on August 4, 1972 at a ceremony in
7189-449: Was also drawn up in the 1970s to illustrate planned service patterns for an expanded subway system. This map showed possible service patterns upon the completion of several subway lines proposed in the 1968 Program for Action . After the subway operating companies were taken over by the Board of Transportation in July 1940, maps continued to be issued until 1942 in the characteristic style of
7280-511: Was assigned from Transit to be Executive Officer of Surface operations and stepped down from the Subway Map Committee. For half a year, the committee did not meet; and then in the summer of 1977, John Tauranac was assigned chair of the committee and meetings resumed. The committee, working with the design firm Michael Hertz Associates, experimented with designs and in February 1978 Tauranac organized an exhibition entitled "The Good, The Bad ... The Better? A New York City Subway Map Retrospective" at
7371-584: Was created by the MTA Subway Map Committee, chaired by John Tauranac , which outsourced the graphic design of the map to Michael Hertz Associates . The MTA released an interactive version of the map for digital devices in 2020, designed and built by Work & Co . The Live Subway Map combines elements from the Massimo Vignelli’s diagram and the design by Hertz, and connects to a live database for real-time service updates. Original maps for
7462-456: Was digitized so that it could be edited via computer: in this edition, incongruous small details were removed or revised. Despite the revisions made to the 1998 map, several errors persisted through the 21st century: for instance, the intersection of Broadway and West End Avenue in the Upper West Side was depicted as being several blocks away from its true location. A special-edition map
7553-561: Was exhibited at the Cooper Union in April, when Tauranac debated with Massimo Vignelli in a public battle between the two schools of map-making. The final design used a trunk-colored scheme, in which services running on a common main line, or "trunk" line, share the same color. Tauranac led the 12-person Subway Map Committee, which comprised TA staff and members of the public and three staff at Michael Hertz Associates. Everybody contributed to
7644-780: Was featured in The Wiz (1978) in which the characters find themselves in a strange Emerald city subway with evil monsters such as chomping trashcans and subway columns that move and try to trap the characters. The station was also featured in the Eddie Murphy comedy Coming to America (1988), as well as in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990). The Warriors (1979), Nighthawks (1981), Crocodile Dundee (1986) and Crocodile Dundee II (1988), and The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009) have also filmed at Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets. The Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets station's mezzanine
7735-412: Was free, while Hagstrom charged for theirs. To keep the publications valid, the NYCTA periodically sent updated service information to both Hagstrom and Voorhies to be printed in service tables and, where necessary, incorporated into the map. Second: the NYCTA solicited proposals to create an in-house map design to save money and have more control of the map. In 1955, George Salomon submitted a proposal to
7826-437: Was made available for the subway. Additionally, " On The Go! Travel Stations " are electronic maps located in stations that make use of touchscreen technology to help subway patrons plan trips. Google Maps and Apple Maps also give transit directions, with the locations of stations laid over an actual street grid. Such maps have been increasingly prevalent. On the real-time map, the MTA uses its existing data feeds to show
7917-515: Was not well received. The following year, the parent body Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) was formed over the TA, chaired by William J. Ronan , who wanted to create a modern brand image for this new body. While the Unimark signage project was still being finished up with the creation of the New York City Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual, Vignelli went to Ronan with a mock-up of part of
8008-466: Was only an English-language version of the map. In 1991, a multilingual version of the map was printed in six languages commonly used by tourists: English, Spanish , French , German , Italian , and Japanese . Additionally, Staten Island was initially not shown on the map except for a small corner inset. In 1998, a map of the Staten Island Railway was added to that inset. That year, the map
8099-502: Was released in 2004 to mark the restoration of service on the Manhattan Bridge following the conclusion of the Manhattan Bridge subway closures , which had required construction on the bridge's subway tracks for 18 years. The latest major revision to the official subway map, which took effect on June 27, 2010, makes Manhattan bigger and Staten Island smaller. Several smaller streets were also removed. A late night-only version of
8190-443: Was the main setting for the filming of Michael Jackson's music video / short film for his hit 1987 single " Bad ", as well as "Weird Al" Yankovic 's parody, " Fat ". The opening scene of the Law & Order episode " Subterranean Homeboy Blues " (1990) was filmed in this station. The station is referenced in the title of Leikeli47 's song "Hoyt and Schermerhorn" from Acrylic. The station
8281-405: Was the only stop between 42nd Street and the racetrack. The Aqueduct service was eliminated in 1981, and the outer platforms have since remained out of revenue service. The abandoned parts of the station are often used for film shoots: for example, scenes for The Warriors and The Taking of Pelham 123 were shot there. They are also used for other special functions, such as a public display of
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