The MTA’s announcement that it will phase out an iconic portion of the fleet in 2025 has normally jaded straphangers feeling nostalgic over the loss of another piece of Big Apple history.

More than 1,700 subway cars dating back to the 1980s, known for their staggered, shades-of-orange seating, will be replaced by more efficient models with a lot more standing room — leaving some riders emotionally stranded.

“I will miss the colored seats … we all miss stuff once they change things,” Queens-born actress Debi Mazar told The Post, admitting to being “old enough” to mourn the loss of upholstered seats, last seen in the 1970s.

The “Goodfellas” actress, who once voiced PSAs for the MTA, loves her hometown transit so much that she once vied to compete in the “Miss Subways” pageant and wears an old subway token from her birth year — 1964 — as a necklace.

Mazar — who did admit she’s happy to see more dedicated seating for the elderly in the new livery — isn’t the only one who will miss models R46, R62/62A and R68/R68A, with their staggered seating patterns that allowed more passengers to take a load off tired tootsies.

South Brooklyn councilman Justin Brannan waxed positively poetic when asked to comment on the latest commuter chatter.

“There was just something special about watching the sunrise from the N train riding over the Manhattan Bridge. Those yellow and orange seats were so proud,” Brannan said.

“I remember being a kid and spending all day in the Village or the Lower East Side. Scoring a corner orange seat. It was glory.  Even though they kinda looked like the MTA stole them from a McDonald’s. I guess you had to be there. They will be missed.”

Others have romantic memories, like Gothamite Veronica B., who recalled a magic moment while in the early stages of dating her future husband.

“We started cuddling on the train in the two-seat section,” the commuter, who withheld her last name for privacy reasons, said, adding that she skipped over her regular stop home — hoping to keep the moment alive.

“We were just having so much fun.”

Many New Yorkers say that the boring pale blue benches and their newer navy counterparts — the R211/R211S, which recently began running on the A and C lines — just don’t look good aesthetically.

“Big modernism just decided to sweep NY away from creativity. When will you ever see silver and bright colors like orange touch together again?” said Alex Rivera, a Bronx photographer called “The Bronxer.”

Many New Yorkers say that the boring pale blue benches and their newer navy counterparts — the R211/R211S, which recently began running on the A and C lines — just don’t look good aesthetically.

“I think the next generation isn’t going to be so creative now. Everything now is so monotone,” he mused.

Sarah Nisbett, an Upper East Side artist who amassed online fame by sketching strangers on her subway rides and handing them their portraits, said the old trains’ seating arrangement offered a much more unique perspective.

“You interact in a different way with people literally at a different angle,” she said. “The alignment also felt like a wonderful example of public privacy. Everybody had their own rooms.”

Sindi Schorr, an Upper East Side realtor and proud member of the NYC Transit Museum, compared losing the dated cars to the sorrow many felt when the MTA phased out subway tokens for MetroCards in 2003.

“I really think there’s value in preserving the uniqueness of our city,” Schorr said.

Ethan Blake, a 29-year-old in Morningside Heights, pointed out that the newer trains also have a much more bland, corporate feel to them.

“The advertisements [on new trains] are much more pervasive,” he said while riding an orange seat Brooklyn bound B train.