On the Night Map, both the uptown 4 and 6 trains provide a connection to the D and F at Broadway-Lafayette.
With the long-awaited opening of the transfer between the uptown IRT at Bleecker St. and IND station at Broadway-Lafayette earlier this week, Transit had to issue a new subway map. In doing so, the agency has decided to release a revised version of the Night Map as well.
The Night Map is the MTA’s recognition that one map isn’t quite enough. With overnight subway service vastly different than that of rush hour, the Night Map serves to provide late-night riders in the know with a proper route around the city. The first edition was available only at the Transit Museum in Brooklyn the museum’s Annex in Grand Central Terminal. It was quite popular amongst map collectors, to say the least.
“The first edition of the night map was a fabulous edition to our map offerings and a big hit with Museum visitors,” Gabrielle Shubert, Director of the New York Transit Museum, said. “Customers weren’t happy we only gave away one copy per customer, but because it was a limited edition, we wanted to make sure as many museum patrons as possible had a chance to get one.”
With the second edition of the Night Map, the MTA is expanding distribution. Still, only 25,000 copies will be available, but these copies can be picked up at some of the stations that suffer the most from overnight service changes, including all of the R stops in Brooklyn from 36th St. to 95th St., the overnight M train terminals and stations along the Queens Boulevard route that see significant reductions in subway frequency.
The Night Map is available online right here as a PDF, and the full list of stations carrying it comes after the jump. Pick one of these up when you can. Supplies won’t last.
95th Street R
86th Street R
77th Street R
Bay Ridge Avenue R
59th Street R
53rd Street R
45th Street R
36th Street DNR
4th Avenue-9th Street FGR
Atlantic Avenue-Barclays 2345BDNQR
DeKalb Avenue BQR
Queens Plaza EMR
Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Avenue EFMR
Forest Hills-71 Avenue EFMR
Jamaica Center-Parsons/Archer EJZ
Middle Village-Metropolitan Avenue M
Myrtle Avenue JMZ
Astoria-Ditmars Blvd NQ
Euclid Avenue AC
Broadway Junction ACJZL
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So now there are just two “official” MTA maps that still show the unidirectional Bleecker Street transfer. The first is fairly obscure; the initial Weekender map – before you zoom in – has the split in the #6 line at Bleecker, but once you zoom in at that point, the split is gone. However, when you switch from this “Subway Diagram View” to the “Neighborhood Map View”, there are two Bleecker Streets once again.
Wow. First they got rid of the regular service schedule map in 2010 when they did the service cuts. Then they got the Weekender. Now a night map, too? Cool.
By itself, without the “night service” label, it looks like they scaled down the subway at first, to 20 lines.
So why won’t the MTA print the night map on the backside of the regular map?
Because the LIRR/Metro-North map is already on the back of the regular map
But who uses the LIRR/Metro-North map?
Folks who use Metro-North or LIRR to get somewhere?
But there’s no reason the commuter railroads need to be on the same physical sheet of paper as the subway.
The subway map used to be an NYCT publication, but it changed hands in the late 90’s and has since been an MTA publication. As such, it includes all of the agencies, even Bridges & Tunnels.
The line-by-line strip maps that used to be on the back were far more useful to subway riders.
Seems like more of a collectible item for transit buffs rather than a functional product although of course it has a function. Otherwise why only make it available at the Transit Musuem stores, in limited quantity? And in 2.0, ‘select’ stations, seemingly chosen at random. e.g. no Penn, no Union Sq, but 95 St on the R?
This reminds me of one of my pet peeves: why does the 4 run local at night? (Whereas, for instance, the D still runs express.) It makes sense with the A because the C doesn’t run and the E is a drastically different route, but with the 6 running local and along the same route through almost the entirety of Manhattan, why not still run the 4 express?
I just asked for the map at the DeKalb Avenue,and the booth clerk told me that they had a carton of them but were told not to open it yet.