Comments on: Animated travels through subway history on a map

By: DJM

DJM — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:59:10 +0000

can you add the year to each animation?

By: Victoria

Victoria — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:23:51 +0000

Woah, I could watch this forever. Is there a way to slow it down though?? It’s too fast.

By: Tomas

Tomas — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:35:01 +0000

Awesome map!!! I would mention this story on my own blog. Really, really, great!!! Congratulations.

By: Benjamin Kabak

Benjamin Kabak — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 04:12:52 +0000

Gregory: It’s a photoshop based on the 2005 subway map. The creator deconstructed the subway map to show the order in which the current lines appeared on the then-current subway map. It’s not perfect, and everyone wants it to be a little bit better.

But it’s neat and nothing more than what it says it is: An animated GIF showing the development of the current subway system as reflected on the lines on the map. There’s a lot it could show, and if you have Adobe ImageReady and a lot of patience, go for it.

By: Gregory A. Butler

Gregory A. Butler — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 04:08:57 +0000

Nice animation - but the person who made this left out all the subway lines that got demolished during or immediately after the Fiscal Crisis of 1975.

I’m talking about the M train’s Myrtle Av extension, the J train’s Jamaica Av extension, the 8 train in the Bronx and the Culver Shuttle in Brooklyn.

For that matter, there’s the whole matter of the old Manhattan elevated lines (2nd Av el, 3rd Av el, 6th Av el and 9th Av el) that were torn down in the late 1930’s - early 1940’s.

If you’re going to cover the expansion of the subway system, you have to cover it’s contraction too.

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Doobybrain.com » Blog Archive » NYC Subway Map in animated history — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 02:18:15 +0000

[...] map above look funny to you? It should if you’re a NYC subway commuter. The image above is taken from an animated gif of the NYC subway as lines were added and expanded throughout it’s history (up until [...]

By: ratherbebiking

ratherbebiking — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:55:05 +0000

Awesome!

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Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:41:36 +0000

[...] Avenue Sagas stumbled across a nifty little animated gif image of the NYC Subway map. One by one, it reveals the segments of the system in the order they were [...]

By: Gretel

Gretel — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:23:23 +0000

I enjoyed waiting for the G to appear, which is something I can’t say in real life.

I hope nobody at the MTA finds out about it, because then they will have to take it down (just like “[ ]-Line Bagels.”

By: KidTwist

KidTwist — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 19:27:45 +0000

Way cool. Thanks.
BTW: Franklin AVENUE Shuttle.