The New Map
The new subway map makes Manhattan even bigger, reduces Staten Island and continues to buck the trend of the angular maps once used here and still preferred in many other major cities. Detailed information on bus connections that was added in 1998 has been considerably shortened.
Would you look at how FAT Manhattan is?? At first I thought it was just the MTA getting MORE accurate, but really, it's that they are intentionally getting it wrong. Turns out they've been getting it wrong for a long time. Check out what the NYT tells us:
The Shape of Manhattan in Subway Maps
Manhattan dominates in the new design, its girth growing by 31 percent over the current map. The island is depicted 83 percent wider than its actual proportions.
They also include this handy comparison chart: 
Note to self: stop using the subway map as a size reference in all future works of fiction... >_<
Oh and I should probably go back and rewrite huge swaths of my last novel, too. :(
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