Ask any non-Manhattanite to identify New York’s distinguishing trait, and the answer is sure to entail skyscrapers. Skyscrapers have been embedded into New York City’s culture since the late 19th century.
Experience the dawn of the metropolitan Manhattan with New York 1901. In the area control game by Blue Orange Games, players compete to build skyscrapers on a map of the Financial District.
Your uncle left a small property in Lower Manhattan, with which you hope to catalyze your real estate career. Make a legendary skyscraper – the Singer, the Metropolitan Life, the Park Row or the Woolworth – the crown of your empire.
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Similar to Monopoly in it is a managerial spatial game, this two to four player board game is more complex. You have two actions: acquiring and developing land, and demolishing existing property to build larger buildings. It may seem mechanically simple, but the restrictive moves force you to be strategic.
Players can develop 18 buildings of different level tiers. You start with bronze-level, and once built you can progress onto silver, and then gold-level technologies.
The level and number of buildings, upon other factors add up to points, and determine whom in Lower Manhattan’s reigns real estate supreme.
-by Nisha Stickles
