Subway Maps

R train

"Ask yourself why the New York subway system, alone among the mass transit systems of the world, has maps inside rather than outside the trains. It's to force you to get on the wrong train in order to find out where you're going."
Calvin Trillin, With All Disrespect

Subway

Times Square subway station

"Only real New Yorkers can find their way around in the subway. If just anybody could find his way around in the subway, there wouldn't be any distinction in being a real New Yorker except talking funny."
Calvin Trillin, With All Disrespect