Peter Williams

Hello, I was recently in New York and was super fascinated by the subway. It's a massive and complex system, that is also a bit chaotic and doesn't always make sense. To understand it, I think you need to understand that it used to be three competing companies each building their own system in parallel to the others. I was looking for a map that explains which parts of the modern system were built by which company, but couldn't find one. So I just made my own. Literally using Paint to color in the present day subway map, super nerdy haha, I know. Anyway, here it is: https://postimg.cc/yDR2Q89n Blue: IRT Red: BMT Green: IND Purple: Far Rockaway Line taken over from LIRR Grey: built after the system was unified in 1940 The color of the line bullet is based on the Manhattan trunk the line runs on. I understand that it is not so straight-forward for the two lines running out of Queensboro Plaza as these were shared by BMT and IRT, I decided to color them based on which rolling stock runs on them now. Rebuilt stations, such as WTC, South Ferry, etc still counted for the company that built the original station. I am posting here, because I am not actually from New York and am sure that I made mistakes. I just pieced it together with what I understand about the subway and the information I could find online. Please have a look and let me know if there are any details missing. Feel free to use the map in any way you want, if you like it. Thanks