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Cool! There's also the Cincinnati "transit map for optimists," since Cincinnati doesn't have a subway:

http://www.wireandtwine.com/store/products/cincytransit.html

I like this recycled map stationery -- some of the sets are made from subway maps. I LOVE MAPS!

http://shopdote.com/notecards.html

OMG!!! As someone who went to school right near Northampton, I am thoroughly impressed and NEED one of these. Please, lovely noho couple, I would like one.

Hi Twitteringbirdie - The Noho maps actually are for sale now at http://www.transitauthorityfigures.com. Cape, Vineyard and Nantucket maps are on press and one can pre-order those now. They should hopefully be shipping by the end of next week. So psyched you like it!

very funny. need: Portsmouth-Rye-Newcastle-Badger's Island-Kittery

Wicked pissah! I'd like a Portsmouth/Portland line map for a friend, if you feel it would suit.

I think these are ridiculous. As a born and bred NY'er, subway maps were invented for a REASON - to help people get an actual destination - not follow a map to nowhere. By sheer definition, I don't even see ow you can call these "maps". In addition to being a waste of paper - yes, even recycled paper, they are bound to be confusing to some and certainly useless to others. I'm not even wasting my time going to your the website, but I certainly hope there is a disclaimer on your home page explaining that these are not "real" maps and that you have no actual affiliation to the MTA, etc. I enjoy an innovative design / art product as much as anyone else, but these are useless and stupid. In this economy, I can think of a ton of other ways to spend my design and art dollars and stuff that is useful and that adds value to my life.

Oh, just another thought...it amuses me how much other cities / businesses name their streets, products, locations, etc. after original NYC names, ideas and abreviations. There is only one NYC. There will always only be one NYC! Be more creative, for the sake of design. Okay, I'm done now. Thanks. Bye.

I love these!

JAP is very funny.

Oh if only I could have took the subway from UMass to work at the Hampshire Mall every day. Now, would we allow college students to drive the trains as they do the buses? PVTA - (still) Pointing Virgins Towards Amherst.

JAP: Did it ever occur to you what the "York" in "New York" is? It's a 2,000-year old Roman city in England. It was even the capital of the Roman empire for a short time. A lot of street and neighborhood names there were adapted from European towns and cities.

I'm from NYC originally but I am happy to live now in a place where people don't take themselves so seriously. And I think these posters are awesome.

So what? You have your opinion and I have mine. We are two NY'ers with different opinions - no harm no foul. Yay you for loving the posters. Enjoy them!

JAP -- Please note "Irony." Northampton/Amherst are two small towns in New England with a ton of residents who would give their right arms for a subway like this. IRONY, people. They're clever and funny and adorable, and no JAP, I don't think anyone would order one of these 18x24 posters and then walk around Noho looking for the subway station...

I ordered one, not only because I think the design is lovely, but because the Noho/Amherst area is one that is dear to me (as a Mount Holyoke alum who spent quite a bit of time on the PVTA at age 18) and I get the joke.

AGAIN, it's MY OPINION. We still live in the USA, right? Oh, wait...let me get my MAP. I can joke too - and I'm STILL entitled to my opinion. Let it go already. Okay, thanks. Take care and bye now.

I would love love love to see the Cincinnati one built! Seeing some of those neighbors connected with subway lines makes me really excited. Though I do feel that the map is a tad geographically strange, maybe not entirely accurate, it's just a feeling.

Just my two cents on the matter... I like the "maps" because in places like Cincinnati, where the subway was (started in 1910's) never built completely, it's something natives have always longed for. Having a "possible map," whether framed or t-shirted, is showing your pride in the city and it's development in the future. The same goes for other cities. Some people find transit one of their favorite parts about a city, so no need to be such a hater. Just because you don't "get it" doesn't mean you should try to rain on everyone else's parade.

I don't find the comment about the NYC original name crap to historically accurate. I think only England and the other European countries, which we American's immigrated from, can brag about theft of "original" names. It's silly to think that life and thought began in the habor of NYC, of all places in the world. Everything in design, and in life for that matter, is a version of something prior. That's the whole purpose of design in the first place, to make everything that surrounds us better than it was before. So unless NYC invented the wheel, you can toot that crap horn about originality a little softer, it's boringly naive and largely self-centered. Just my opinion.

These are awesome. I hail from a very small town of 1200 not far from Noho/Amherst. I wonder if I could lobby these guys to make a subway map of Leverett?