It all started when my old office moved downtown to the financial district. The office is on Broadway, somewhere near the Fulton Street station. The station is HUGE - there are so many exits that it was very confusing, and it took me and my coworkers forever to figure out how to get to the exit nearest to the office.
I am from Hong Kong, and in Hong Kong’s MTR (subway) stations, there are diagrams like these on the walls:
List of station layouts can be found here: http://www.mtr.com.hk/en/customer/services/system_map.html
A quick search shows that Japan has similar:
And I thought to myself, why isn’t there any in NYC’s stations? Fulton Street is definitely not the only complex station, and I can't be the only person who wishes there is some form of visualization to help one find his way inside the station.
So I gave myself the challenge to make it happen, and this blog will be a record of this journey.