New York City’s subway lines now available in Google Maps

November 6, 2009 @ 8:55 pm

It’s been available as a layer on Google Maps for BlackBerry devices for a while, but it looks like Google formally announced the MTA NYC Subway transit layer for the standard version of Google Maps. Rather than simply showing the station stops like Google Maps has been doing, the new layer actually shows you how each line travels from point to point.

Looks like there will soon be no use for this digital version of the official MTA NYC Subway map.

Bird’s eye view of the Boston Rapid Transit system

October 29, 2009 @ 11:21 am


Image via vanshnookenraggen (Click to enlarge)

A great find today from CP of a bird’s eye view of the Boston Rapid Transit System back in the 1940’s and 50’s. According to the image description, this version of the map is a bit different than today’s Boston T map because the lines shown here are of a different color than what they are today (today’s Red Line was blue, today’s Orange Line was red, and today’s Blue Line was orange).

The current colors were switched during a system wide rebranding when the MBTA was created.

Subway train cake by Dahlia’s Cakes

October 29, 2009 @ 12:16 am


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Wow, I believe this is the first time I’ve ever seen a cake fashioned to look like a New York City MTA Subway car (an F train, too!). It’s not perfect, but it is kind of neat I think, so kudos to Dahlia’s Cakes for putting this together.


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Improv Everywhere sets up photo studio inside Subway car

September 22, 2009 @ 6:56 pm

For its latest stunt, Improv Everywhere set up a photo studio inside a Subway car and convinced people that the MTA commissioned them to take photos of all passengers for use in a year book to be published at the end of the year.

Some folks were happy to oblige and some of the results of the makeshift studio can be seen in the portraits below. Nice!

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CAZZ and COOP bomb the Berlin Subway

September 2, 2009 @ 12:02 am

OMG. No words. Just watch. [via]

Guy on Subway asks to see a performer’s boob

August 25, 2009 @ 12:26 am

Corey linked this video from Ignantwitted that gives us all a clear cut example of what not to ask a Subway performer. I love how cool she was about it. Most girls I know would have kicked this guy in the nuts.