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We've just released the latest version of the NYC Mass Transit Spatial Layers series. The data are sourced from the MTA's transit feed and are processed to represent usable, public, and well-documented GIS layers for representing New York City's bus, subway, and train routes and stations. The files are in a shapefile format and are projected in NY State Plane Long Island (US feet).

 

Here are the major updates to this new version (Nov 2015): 

  • The underlying stops and routes data for the subway include the city's newest subway station on the 7 line, 34th St - 11 Ave (Hudson Yards). The underlying data for subway entrances did not include the new station, so we added it to the file.

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  • The routes file for the Metro North remains highly generalized and is only appropriate for schematic representation at the metropolitan-area level, but we did make minor improvements to the line work so that it is better than our previous version.

All of the metadata for the layers has been updated. Data from the previous iteration of the files (May 2015) has been moved to a new archives page and will remain accessible.