October 10–13, 2013 For New York Comic Con there was less construction and for the most part the crowd was more manageable because of the new badge counterfeit deterrents worked for the most part. The inflow of people was much faster than years previous. They increased Thursday hours which was …

The Sheraton Meadowland Hotel & Convention Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey was the site of MangaNext 2012. It was held the weekend following Maryland’s Katsucon 18 and pulled in a relatively low attendance. Our photographer/head of conpics.ws completely missed the press deadline and only I (Chris) could make it as I was going to run a panel. The hotel layout did not boost MangaNext’s “attendee flow” either. While a beautiful hotel with excellent customer service, its convention rooms were on the second floor and down a dark hallway. Several con attendees were witnessed asking Con Staff where the Dealer’s Room and Artist Alley were located. The hotel’s location, on a service road next to a major highway, was not within walking distance of any food sources. Cheap and fast food was a ten to fifteen minute drive away.

Stevens Insititue of Technology’s anime club hosts another wonderful Castle Point Anime Convention.

I-Con returns to Stony Brook for its 29th convention.

Springfest a one day anime con run by the Polytechnic Anime Society(PAS). Its a student organization who’s members attend Polytechnic Institute of New York University located in Brooklyn, NY.