I was in New York last week on a bit of family business and had the chance to pop into the City on Monday. Apart from the strangely empty skyline towards the bottom end of Manhattan the place looks pretty much the same as the last time I visited in 2000.
There is one subtle change that I hoped to capture with my digital camera: the scene of the forthcoming Nintendo Store in Times Square. Taking a leaf from the Apple tree, Nintendo's store is the first platform-dedicated entertainment consumer technology centre in the West – although certainly not the last – and punters can expect a Nintendo-branded "experience" when they walk through the doors. It was almost worth changing the flight to head down to the opening…
Unfortunately I was unable to find neither hide nor hair anywhere, and that's because it's going to be in the Rockefeller Center, blocks and blocks away. Ahem. I didn't get to go back into Manhattan before I headed home, so to the US-bound readers, send pictures and reports from the opening gala on the 14th!
