Rob and Damia Stewart are the forces behind Transit Authority Figures, a team that creates subway maps for places most unlikely to ever install that mode of transportation.
At first glance, a poster looks like one of those "improved" designer subway maps that pop up from time to time, but upon closer inspection, one realizes they are completely fabricated.
We've seen their New England locations maps on Apartment Therapy Boston, and now Transit Authority Figures has created posters for two vacation spots in the New York area — Fire Island and Hamptons/North Fork. The lines and stops along the routes are chosen based on their local importance, and on the aesthetic effects of placing a right angle here, a 45 degree angle there...
All posters measure 18" x 24", and will set you back $20. Available directly from Transit Authority Figures.
Veronica & Keith's Handmade Chic 
Before & After: A Bathroom Goes From Pinky Peach to Sleek and Chic
Good Food to Share 
The Big Book of Small, Cool Spaces 
Apartment Therapy Presents 
The Eight-Step Home Cure 
Hunslet Dinner Plate
A Beginner's Guide to Superb Stir-Fry: Quick, Healthy Meals from a Wok
Easy Pitcher Cocktail Recipe: Strawberry Basil Margaritas
Comments (8)
This is really funny. I love it.
Next thing you know, people are going to have black-and-white "old" subway signs from the Hamptons and Fire Island subway system up as decor in their homes.
love this!
Why is this necessary? Sorry, but I think it's a silly waste of money.
Aesthetics, sure, but shouldn't a transit line be a little more about functionality? I admit it's a neat idea, but you see on the island, where the red line curves around to "skip" the purple station? UGH. How do you connect? It's not even like there's a stop up on that curve. Little things like that throw me off.
Funny, when I was a kid in the Berkshires, who really wanted to live fulltime in NYC (mom was from here, and we spent LOTS of time in New York -- I grew up knowing the trains, etc.) -- I drew up a Subway & Peoplemover map for the area.
Oddly enough, the current bus system (the "B") has routes that are virtually the same!
I think these are fun -- totally silly, of course, but a boy can dream, no? And some people turn their dreams into wonderful realities. Kudos.
@ Shannon: Are you familiar with Point o' Woods? It makes perfect sense.
Hysterical!!
This is such a great poster. It's the perfect blend of the two 'subcultures' that my boyfriend and I share. His family is from FI and I grew up taking the NYC subways. Even if it's not 100% correct (there's a ferry that runs from Bay Shore to Ocean Bay Park) it's a great way of illustrating the combined cultures.
P.S. The skip around Point o Woods as a Subway line wouldn't be practical, as Shannon points out. But, that skip around POW in real life is correct as it is a private gated community.