Palisades Center

The **Palisades Center** (katakana: **パリセーズ・センター**) is a mall located in West Nyack, NY. Yuuki has been here ever since she was little.

## In the Yuuki lore

The mall opened March 4, 1998. Yuuki attended the grand opening, and watched Nancy Kerrigan skate at the ice rink. In the mall's early years, Yuuki loved Jeepers!, the WNET Store of Knowledge, the Nickelodeon Store, and the Disney Store. On one occasion, Yuuki was at the Nickelodeon Store with her parents, and asked for Angelica Pickles socks. Her parents promised her they'd get them next time, but shortly afterwards, the store closed.

Yuuki had her fourth birthday party at the Rainforest Café. She admired the exotic animals there, and stuck her finger in a talking tree's mouth, making a kid who was creeped out by it laugh. Yuuki also got a stuffed parrot, and when everyone left, her parents took her up to the fourth floor and rode a simulator with her.

2002 saw the addition of MaxFlight (replacing the simulator Yuuki had rode two years prior.) This was Yuuki's first ride with hangtime. She screamed, "SHINU NDA!!" (roughly, "I'M GONNA DIE!!"), making her parents laugh at her, but eventually, she got used to it. Also new to this year were kiddie rides, including the Batman Forever Batmobile, and of course... the Superman Train. Yuuki absolutely adored the latter, being a Superman fan who read the comics and watched the cartoon. Yuuki would often go on the ride when seeing movies at Loew's Theaters.

Yuuki had her 7th birthday party at Jeepers! She and her friends all spent their time on the Python Pit and Yak Attack, playing Spider Stompin' and Daytona USA, and eating shitty pizza.

Yuuki loved the Lego Store when it opened, as well as Robot Galaxy and Cold Stone Creamery. When Jeepers! closed, Yuuki went up to the employee at Lucky Strike Lanes and said, "I miss Jeepers!" The employee actually agreed with Yuuki.

Over the years, the Palisades Center has changed vastly, but Yuuki-chan still goes there and mentally notes what used to be there with her near-eidetic memory.

## Trivia

* Danielle's eldest brother (who is Yuuki's age) also attended the opening day with his mother and her friend.
* Yuuki called the Palisades Center the "Nick mall" when she was very young, as it had the Nickelodeon Store. She associated the mall with Nick until the Superman kiddie ride came in 2002.
* Ayane was nearly addicted to the strawberry milkshakes at Sweet Memories, a former ice cream place on the fourth floor. It only lasted 2 years, and got replaced by McDonald's, which moved from the second floor.
* Yuuki's parents enjoyed eating at Ranch 1 in the food court, and the Empire Buffet on the fourth floor (later behind the food court.) Yuuki was excited for East when it replaced the Empire Buffet.
* Yuuki's parents loved Brenner Florsheim and got their shoes there.
* Yuuki has a notable hatred of 5W!ts, an escape room entertainment center located in the mall, due to their "Deep Space" mission containing a one-dimensionally evil female AI. Yuuki is a feminist and *hates* one-dimensional female villains. Every time the ad for 5W!ts plays on the information screens, when the climatic scene of Deep Space plays, Yuuki shouts, "YOOOO, this one's a WOMANNNNN!!" a la Logan from ElToroRyan when he encountered a female cop.