Age: 14+
Time: 90-180 min
Players: 1-3
Published: 2025

Cross Bronx Expressway is the third game in the Irregular Conflicts Series. It simulates the socio-economic processes of urban development, and the human costs that result, as a competitive city-builder with collective loss conditions. Players control one of three asymmetric factions working in the South Bronx between 1940 and 2000, pursuing their own goals while cooperating to keep the borough viable. Through a card driven sequence of play, they will work to solve the economic challenges facing the area by building infrastructure and organizations, forming coalitions, mitigating the multitude of issues facing the vulnerable population, and managing resources to stay out of debt. Cross Bronx Expressway offers an engaging way to learn about the recent history of American cities, as exemplified by Jane Jacobs' pivotal work The Death and Life of Great American Cities, simulated through the case study of the South Bronx. Players will experience the conflicting incentives and complex factors shaping urban life and together determine the fate of the Bronx.

Can you cooperate better than the historical actors did and pull the South Bronx back from the brink of disaster?

Contents:

• One 22" x 34" Mounted Game Board
• 96 Event Cards
• 24 Position Cards
• 127 Wooden Pieces
• Three Full-color Countersheets
• Three Fold-out Player Aid Pamphlets
• One Non-Player Aid Sheet
• One Custom 6-sided Die
• One Rules of Play Booklet
• Three Orientation Guides
• One Historical Record Booklet
• One 3" Box

- description by ACD, distributor