MTA to Change New York's Subway Map

Michael Grynbaum, the most poetic scribe of subterranean infrastructure since Victor Hugo, reports for The New York Times today that the MTA is changing its subway map:

Next month, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority will unveil a resized, recolored and simplified edition of the well-known map, its first overhaul in more than a decade.

Manhattan will become taller, bulkier and 30 percent wider, to better display its spaghetti of subway lines. Staten Island, meanwhile, will shrink by half.

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