The old mta subway map

Any native New Yorker I talk to about this feels the same way — the new one gives everything an app icon feel, a simplified video game simulation of the hard earned hustling we do to navigate this crazy place. We all suddenly exist in a box, Central Park is at once a box, Queens and Brooklyn — an uptight Pac Man with a tail, Manhattan — an upside down worm, the Bronx — a shape that tried to escape, Staten Island — a glitch in the system. The old Tauranac-Hertz map was warm, human, and relatable like its city. And it worked! Since 1979…