I really want to like this board, but in the handful of games I've played on it I didn't really enjoy the experience. Even when I was doing well it was just meh.
This board makes you feel New York is a steel city, made up entirely of buildings, cement structures, bridges and airports. That layout is the main thing i don't like about it, but that's a very personal bias. The play is interesting, maybe i'll increase my rating after playing it some more.
A long-time favorite of mine. I've played it way too many times, but still find it interesting. Airports are useful at the beginning, and again at the end. This and the borough concept takes it out of the dead simple geographic Risk-style boards, adds a little more strategic variety. However, it does sometime get deadly dull when you get into 3-player games; can take a verrrrrrrry long time to end. I loved some of the variations on WF, such as hordes and abandon-on. Oh well.