The current NYC Transit subway map is well-known for compressing an enormous amount of information into an easily readable very effective format. But the design has its constraints, and people have designed other New York subway maps that have different priorities, including fidelity to surface accuracy (see this geographically correct subway map) and another that gives you *all* track information, even if it’s superfluous. So, for example, here’s the track schematic for 14th – 28th Streets.

See also abandoned stations; Eighteenth Street, for example.