New York Puzzle CompanyNew Yorker Main Street - 1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

Friends loved it for its quality.

I have completed 6 New York puzzles but this one is my favorite. As you can tell I do like the brand but this one was special.

A turn-of-the-century, working class, immigrant neighborhood is the theme of this New Yorker cover by Beatrice Tobias from November 18, 1939 – one of two she did for the iconic magazine. It’s an excellent subject for a puzzle with its play off the word “build” as in communities, a life, a milieu - or a puzzle.It's a historically vibrant and beautifully painted picture of street life in post-Depression but pre-WWII America. My teen daughter and I worked this puzzle over a holiday weekend. Our building time turned into bonding time as we talked about our family’s immigrant history, and living in big cities with street vendors, pushcarts and store fronts still part the local NYC economy.The picture in this puzzle told a story of a time, a place, and a people. The best story, though, was the one we shared while puzzling together. A great puzzle to build as a family project. Just set it up on a 32" folding card table in a common space, and see what happens.

I’ve never done a New York puzzle before and after opening and finding how more than 50 percent of the pieces were stuck together in sheets I was not impressed. I’m so glad I took the time to carefully separate them and stick with the puzzle because it was truly one of the most fun puzzles I’ve ever done. I enjoyed it so much that I ordered a few more and thankfully the others were cut much better. I liked that the pieces fit together tightly since I don’t like it when interlocking puzzle pieces can wiggle. I find it satisfying when it’s a snug fit. And I found these pieces are not the traditional puzzle shapes which added to my enjoyment.

It was fun and challenging.

This is the gift I bought for my mom for Christmas. She LOVED it so much that in the next three days she was obsessed to complete it. (Of course, I helped some too). The puzzle is not too difficult for people who enjoy playing puzzle but not want to challenge themselves too much. The color of the puzzle is vibrant too! Looks very high quality. At the end, my mom asked my dad to frame it and now it is displayed in the living room.

The New Yorker puzzles are consistently challenging and fun to do. This puzzle, however, was missing a piece. Very frustrating after all that work to fall short by one piece.

The New Yorker cover puzzles are always wonderful. It's a delight to see the picture come together, and the colors are vivid. The puzzle is well-made. However, the pieces are very small (not Ravensberger size), so this increases the challenge---especially the section of the puzzle that contains the magazine name! I'm not doing these puzzles; my 89 year old mother is, and this is her first 1000 piece! She has been working on this one since Thanksgiving, putting in several hours a day. Because there is so much detail in the picture, each tiny piece holds a useful clue, but there are hundreds of pieces to sort through: very engrossing, very mind-engaging.