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New York Minute
	; View of Times Square
Information
Appears in	Mario Kart Tour (2019 (1, 2), 2020 (3), 2021 (4), 2022 (B)); Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Booster Course Pass, Wave 2) (2022)
Cup(s)	Turnip Cup
Tour(s)	New York Minute:; New York Tour; Autumn Tour (2022); Night Tour; New York Minute 2:; Holiday Tour (2019); Autumn Tour (2022); Night Tour; New York Minute 3:; 1st Anniversary Tour; Autumn Tour (2022); New York Minute 4:; 2nd Anniversary Tour; Autumn Tour (2022); New York Minute B:; Autumn Tour (2022); Night Tour
Online play	Available (Switch)
Music sample
	Mario Kart Tour; Race course; ; Battle course; ; ; Mario Kart 8 Deluxe; Normal; ; Frontrunning;
Course map
	Mario Kart Tour; New York Minute; ; New York Minute 2; ; New York Minute 3; ; New York Minute 4; ; New York Minute B; ; Mario Kart 8 Deluxe;
Staff ghost(s)
8DX 150cc	Nin★Leonel
1:34.573
8DX 200cc	Nin★Sho
1:07.562

Revision as of 16:10, July 20, 2023

New York Minute is a race course in Mario Kart Tour. It takes place in New York City, United States, and is set in nighttime. It made its debut in the city's namesake tour and the first tour overall, the New York Tour. The course has four routes, the most out of any course alongside Tokyo Blur, named New York Minute, New York Minute 2, New York Minute 3 and New York Minute 4, with the last three debuting in the 2019 Holiday Tour (referencing the Times Square New Year’s celebrations), 1st Anniversary Tour, and 2nd Anniversary Tour respectively. From versions 1.2.0 to 1.4.0, the first route was named New York Minute 1. A battle course version of the course named New York Minute B later debuted in the 2022 Autumn Tour. The inclusion of this course and the Los Angeles Laps courses makes the United States the only country to be represented by more than one city course.

The name of the race comes from an American expression used to designate very short intervals of time. Like the similarly inspired New Donk City from Super Mario Odyssey, New York Minute features a number of references to Donkey Kong, including the Times Square jumbotron displaying the original arcade game. The first route of this course is a favorite of Pink Toad (Pit Crew), Monty Mole, Blue Shy Guy, Pauline, Pink Gold Peach, Yoshi (Egg Hunt), Daisy (Thai Dress), Toad (Tourist), Petey Piranha (Gold), and the Green, Moo Moo, Piranha Plant, Lemmy, Roy, and Daisy Mii Racing Suits, the second route is a favorite of Orange Yoshi, Pauline, Yoshi (Reindeer), Dr. Luigi, Cat Mario, Luigi (Knight), and the Yoshi, ? Block, and Bowser Mii Racing Suits, while it can be a favorite of Yellow Shy Guy if he reaches level 3; the third is a favorite of Orange Yoshi, Pauline, Pauline (Party Time), Mario (SNES), Waluigi (Bus Driver), Dry Bones (Gold), Petey Piranha (Gold), and the Cat and Bowser Mii Racing Suits, the fourth is a favorite of Pauline, Baby Peach (Cherub), Luigi (Classic), Toadette (Explorer), Peach (Explorer), Penguin Mario, and the Petey Piranha Mii Racing Suit, and the battle course version is a favorite of Boomerang Bro, Pauline, Mario (Musician), Pauline (Party Time), Mario (Sunshine), Mario (Baseball), Mario (Satellaview), Luigi (Golf), Yoshi (Gold Egg), Funky Kong, Bowser (Santa), Lakitu (Party Time), Chargin' Chuck, Donkey Kong (Gladiator), and the Cat and Pokey Mii Racing Suits.

New York Minute returns in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe via the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Booster Course Pass DLC. It is a combination of the first three routes, and appears as the first course of the Turnip Cup.

Mario Kart Tour

Course layouts

The city course's routes in
relation to each other

New York Minute

In the standard layout, all of the racers start the course in front of Times Square, where many sponsors can be seen. Just after the starting line, the road bends in a slight curve to the right through Broadway and ends in a bridge that leads into Central Park. In the park, the road takes a sharp turn to the left and circles back under the bridge where the racers entered the park. After the bridge, the road continues straight until it turns sharply to the right back into the city, where a blocked out entrance to the Rockefeller Center and the building itself can be seen in front. There, the players turn left and pass the Empire State Building and St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan. After another turn to the right, the players are back at the starting line.

In Times Square, many billboards can be seen. There are ads for Galaxy Air, Banana Boy ("The Smash Hit Musical!"), Broadway Musical Entertainment, Donkey Kong ("The Best Musical!"), Burning DK, Barrel Travel, 1-UP Mushroom Car Insurance Group, Mario Work Gear, and Shy Guy Metals.

The course also appears as New York Minute R (reversed), New York Minute T (with ramps), and New York Minute R/T (reversed with ramps).

New York Minute has the longest gap in appearances between tours, having not reappeared since its debut in the game’s first tour, eighty-one tours prior to the 2022 Autumn Tour. Its normal variant also shares this distinction, having not reappeared since the former tour prior to the Night Tour.

Appearances

For this course's tour appearances, see List of New York Minute tour appearances in Mario Kart Tour § New York Minute.

Bonus challenges

Do Jump Boosts
Icon	Course variant	Chosen driver	Chosen kart	Chosen glider	Grand Star scores	Tour appearances	Cup
	Regular	Yoshi	Pipe Frame	Super Glider	5 8 12	New York Tour	Yoshi Cup
					6 9 12	Autumn Tour (2022)	Daisy Cup
					8 10 12	Night Tour	Diddy Kong Cup

Steer Clear of Obstacles
Icon	Course variant	Chosen driver	Chosen kart	Chosen glider	Obstacles	Tour appearances	Cup
	Regular	Birdo (Yellow)	Pipe Frame	Super Glider	Oil slick Piranha Plant (passive)	Autumn Tour (2022)	Funky Kong Cup

Vs. Mega Donkey Kong
Icon	Course variant	Mega opponent information				Tour appearances	Cup
Icon	Course variant	Driver	Kart	Glider	Items used	Tour appearances	Cup
	Regular	Donkey Kong	Yellow Taxi	Super Glider	Bananas 150cc and lower only Giant Bananas^[1] Mushrooms^[1] 200cc only	New York Tour	Metal Mario Cup
	Regular	Donkey Kong	Yellow Taxi	Super Glider		Night Tour	Peach Cup

New York Minute 2

In the standard layout, all of the racers start the course in front of Times Square. Just after the starting line, the road bends in a sinusoidal curve to the left and then the right through Broadway and ends in a cobblestone path that leads into Central Park. In the park, the road takes a sharp turn to the right and circles back to the bordering road, where it takes an abrupt left. After a sharp right turn, the players reach a Glide Ramp while approaching the Empire State Building. After two sharp right turns, the players return to the starting line.

The course also appears as New York Minute 2R (reversed), New York Minute 2T (with ramps), and New York Minute 2R/T (reversed with ramps).

New York Minute 2 is the first city course and course in general to have its N and T variants appear in a tour, but not its R variant. Its reverse variant also shares this distinction, having not reappeared since the former tour prior to the Night Tour.

Appearances

For this course's tour appearances, see List of New York Minute tour appearances in Mario Kart Tour § New York Minute 2.

Bonus challenges

Ring Race
Icon	Course variant	Chosen driver	Chosen kart	Chosen glider	Grand Star scores	Tour appearances	Cup
	Regular	Rosalina	Pipe Frame	Super Glider	10 15 25	Holiday Tour (2019)	Rosalina Cup
	Regular	Rosalina	Pipe Frame	Super Glider	15 21 27	Night Tour	King Boo Cup

vs. Mega Wario
Icon	Course variant	Mega opponent information				Tour appearances	Cup
Icon	Course variant	Driver	Kart	Glider	Items used	Tour appearances	Cup
	Regular	Wario	Badwagon	Super Glider^[2]	Bob-ombs^[2] Double Bob-ombs^[3]	Holiday Tour (2019)	Baby Daisy Cup

Goomba Takedown
Icon	Course variant	Chosen driver	Chosen kart	Chosen glider	Item Box type found	Number of item slots	Grand Star scores	Tour appearances	Cup
	Regular	Diddy Kong	Pipe Frame	Super Glider	Super Horn	1	15 30 46	Holiday Tour (2019)	Baby Luigi Cup
							18 28 42	Autumn Tour (2022)	Baby Luigi Cup
							18 28 38	Night Tour	Cat Peach Cup

Break Item Boxes
Icon	Course variant	Chosen driver	Chosen kart	Chosen glider	Item Box type found	Number of item slots	Grand Star scores	Tour appearances	Cup
	Regular	Baby Luigi	Pipe Frame	Super Glider	Mushroom Mega Mushroom Coin	2	8 14 18	Autumn Tour (2022)	Cat Peach Cup

New York Minute 3

In the standard variant, all of the racers start the course in front of Times Square. Just after the starting line, the road bends in a sinusoidal curve to the left and then the right through Broadway and ends in a cobblestone path that leads into Central Park. Players stay in a straighforward on the park path until it turns sharply to the right back into the city. There, the players pass the Rockefeller Center and enter 30 Rockefeller Plaza. After this, racers follow a tunnel where they can see the Statue of Liberty. After a light turn to the left, they exit the tunnel with the finish line just in front.

The course also appears as New York Minute 3R (reversed), New York Minute 3T (with ramps), and New York Minute 3R/T (reversed with ramps).

Appearances

For this course's tour appearances, see List of New York Minute tour appearances in Mario Kart Tour § New York Minute 3.

Bonus challenges

Ring Race
Icon	Course variant	Chosen driver	Chosen kart	Chosen glider	Grand Star scores	Tour appearances	Cup
	Regular	Bowser Jr.	Pipe Frame	Super Glider	10 16 28	1st Anniversary Tour	Koopa Troopa Cup
	Regular	Bowser Jr.	Pipe Frame	Super Glider	18 27 35	Anniversary Tour (2023)	Fire Rosalina Cup

Vs. Mega Dry Bowser
Icon	Course variant	Mega opponent information				Tour appearances	Cup
Icon	Course variant	Driver	Kart	Glider	Items used	Tour appearances	Cup
	Regular	Dry Bowser	Platinum Taxi	Super Glider	Green Shells^[4] Bowser's Shells^[4] Mushrooms	1st Anniversary Tour	Shy Guy Cup
						Autumn Tour (2022)	Peachette Cup
						Anniversary Tour (2023)	Daisy Cup

Goomba Takedown
Icon	Course variant	Chosen driver	Chosen kart	Chosen glider	Item Box type found	Number of item slots	Grand Star scores	Tour appearances	Cup
	Regular	Pauline	Pipe Frame	Super Glider	Bob-omb Mega Mushroom	1	10 20 32	1st Anniversary Tour	Larry Cup

New York Minute 4

Similar to Tokyo Blur 4, the track visits every landmark and location found in the previous three iterations of the New York Minute course on a race divided by two sections instead of two laps. Due to this, it has a different starting grid layout. In the standard layout, the course starts out in front of Times Square. The player travels on the right side of the Y-joint on Broadway and takes a Dash Panel across some parked cargo trucks to a 270-degree loop around Central Park. After a sharp right turn, the player enters the Rockefeller Center and takes a right reverse curve through the tower's foyer before entering its parking lot. A gradual right turn follows, sending the player back to the front of Times Square for the second section. This time, the player follows the left side of the Y-joint, then takes a sharp right to the parked cargo trucks and taxis, which also features two dash panel ramp trucks (one with a Dash Panel and one with a Glide Ramp). After three more sharp rights towards and around the Rockefeller Center, the player reaches the finish line, finishing the race.

The course also appears as New York Minute 4R (reversed), New York Minute 4T (with ramps), and New York Minute 4R/T (reversed with ramps).

Appearances

For this course's tour appearances, see List of New York Minute tour appearances in Mario Kart Tour § New York Minute 4.

Bonus challenges

Combo Attack
Icon	Course variant	Chosen driver	Chosen kart	Chosen glider	Highest combo counts	Tour appearances	Cup
	T	Pauline	Pipe Frame	Super Glider	5 15 22	2nd Anniversary Tour	Rosalina Cup
	T	Pauline	Pipe Frame	Super Glider	6 12 20	Autumn Tour (2022)	Donkey Kong Cup

Snap a Photo
Icon	Course variant	Chosen driver	Chosen kart	Chosen glider	Other driver information			Objectives	Tour appearances	Cup
Icon	Course variant	Chosen driver	Chosen kart	Chosen glider	Driver	Kart	Glider	Objectives	Tour appearances	Cup
	T	Pauline	Yellow Taxi	Fare Flier	Mario (Hakama)	Kabuki Dasher	Full Flight	3 or more drivers A Jump Boost Take a photo	2nd Anniversary Tour	Lakitu Cup
					Peach (Vacation)	Macharon	Strawberry Crêpe
					Luigi (Painter)	Paintster	Flying Easel

New York Minute B

As this is a battle stage, there is no "route" to drive along. Instead, selected portions of the course are used, and players can drive on the selected portion in any way they desire. The parts of the course used only include Central Park, Times Square, and all areas in between. Additionally, the minimap of this course shows the shortcut near Central Park, which is not shown in the minimaps of the other routes. Like the other battle courses in the game, it uses SNES Battle Course 1's music from Mario Kart 8 Deluxe instead of retaining its original music.

Appearances

For this course's tour appearances, see List of New York Minute tour appearances in Mario Kart Tour § New York Minute B.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

New York Minute as it appears in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

New York Minute reappears in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe via the Booster Course Pass downloadable content. It appears as the first course of the Turnip Cup, making it one of two courses from Mario Kart Tour to appear in the second wave, alongside Tour Sydney Sprint. The course has received significant visual upgrades compared to its original appearance; notably, the streets are now slick with water, and the traction on the course is slipperier as a result. The course features numerous more Toads, Yoshis, and Shy Guys than its Tour counterpart. Like Tour Tokyo Blur, this version of New York Minute dedicates each lap to one of the variants in Mario Kart Tour. However, like Tour Paris Promenade, it also has parts of each route available as split paths. There is a texturing error in the parking garage in this version of the course; the semi truck with the Burning DK logo on it erroneously overlaps the words "Sports" and "Energy". Additionally, despite the bridge in Central Park going over another part of the track, there are no shadows under that part on the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe minimap, though there are shadows where the parked taxis are, which takes place over the interior of 30 Rockefeller Plaza. It is currently one of two Mario Kart Tour city tracks not to rotate the minimap, the other being Tour Sydney Sprint.

The first lap is based on New York Minute, taking the right exit out of Times Square and then a 270° left turn through Central Park, which now contains two Goombas. This leads to the Rockefeller Center, through which the original path that heads straight toward 30 Rockefeller Plaza before taking an S-bend to the left is still available. However, there is now an additional option to make an S-bend earlier and end up on a road taken in New York Minute 2, the Glide Ramp of which is now only on the left half and leads to an Item Box on top of a bus, though there is also a set of traffic lights here that causes racers to spin out and fall to the ground if they collide with it while gliding. A manhole cover appears on the right side of the road here, occasionally spouting water that allows for a Jump Boost to be performed; the geyser is shorter than in Tour, however. Both paths converge and pass the Empire State Building, St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan, and two stationary taxis on the way to the finish line (in a similar vain to New York Minute 4T, but in a different arrangement and without ramps).

The second lap is based on New York Minute 2, taking the left exit out of Times Square and turning through Central Park in the opposite direction to the first lap. An arrow field forces racers to turn left instead of re-entering Times Square, which leads them to the Rockefeller Center. Another manhole cover is positioned on the left side of the road here.

The third and final lap is based on New York Minute 3. Racers once again take the left exit from Times Square. However, on this lap, they drive straight past Central Park and are directed straight toward 30 Rockefeller Plaza with no split paths available. A U-turn through a parking garage where the Statue of Liberty is visible in the background leads racers to the finish line.

Profiles

Mario Kart Tour

Mario Kart Tour social media accounts: The course, New York Minute, makes its debut in Mario Kart Tour! Zoom past towering skyscrapers illuminated by the neon glow of Times Square in this Big Apple-inspired course. Start your engine and get ready to race on 9/25!^[5]^[6]
App Store Preview:
- And be sure to concentrate as you tear through Central Park and Times Square on the revamped New York Minute track. This city never sleeps—and neither does the competition!^[7]
- Another New York Minute - Tear through Central Park and Times Square in the city that never sleeps! Weave through the skyscrapers of New York City in a Yellow Taxi kart driven by the snazzily dressed musician Mario or Pauline, and feel the exciting rush of a night in New York.^[8]^[9]

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

Nintendo Switch News app (US):
- This course first appeared in the Mario Kart Tour game.
- As you've probably guessed, this course is modeled after the Big Apple itself, New York City. Take in the skyscrapers and lovely neon lights of Times Square―this is a city that never sleeps, after all.
- Like some other courses in the DLC, this course changes depending on the lap. Watch out for the tourist buses and taxis!
Nintendo Switch News app (UK): Go on a lightning-fast tour of the city in New York Minute!
This course, which debuted in the smart device game Mario Kart Tour, lets you take in all the nighttime neon of Times Square while you race through a maze of New York's famous skyscrapers. Just watch out for another thing New York is famous for - traffic! You'll need to swerve around tour buses and taxis to make it onto the podium. What's more, the route you'll take changes from lap to lap, so you'll have to keep your wits about you to make sure you don't crash and burn!
Nintendo Magazine 2023 Summer: Set in New York City, U.S, this nighttime course shows off the towering skyscrapers and the beautiful neon lights of Times Square.^[10]

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