October 2011
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Fashionista: "Fashion Draft NYC Can Hook You Up"
On the style-centric blog Fashionista, Cheryl Wischhover says the following:
The fashion industry has teamed up with New York City for some serious job recruiting efforts: If you have a passion for the business of fashion (and you’re a graduating college senior), start dusting off your resume and choosing your interview outfits.
The New York City Economic Development Corporation...
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Next Steps for Applied Sciences NYC
Mayor Bloomberg announced that the City has received seven qualifying responses to Applied Sciences NYC, the City’s groundbreaking economic development initiative to build or expand a state-of-the-art engineering and applied sciences campus in New York City. Seventeen world-class institutions from around the globe responded to the Request for Proposals, which seeks a university,...
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Did you know? Over 19,000 New Yorkers work in over 900 food manufacturing firms, and about 70 percent of those working within the food manufacturing industry are foreign-born.
This Halloween, “treat” yourself to goodies made locally in NYC.
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This week at NYCEDC
This week at NYCEDC:
We recapped the Silicon Alley 500 recruiting event
We said “happy birthday” to The Statue of Liberty
We reminded fashion students to enter Fashion Draft NYC
We wished a happy birthday to the NYC Subway System
We read Fast Company’s article on Applied Sciences NYC, “Nerd York City”
We welcomed tech company Yelp to NYC
We wished we had gone...
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“Due to the inclement weather forecast, the children’s parade [at Coney...”
– Update from Coney Island Fun Guide
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Fashion students, enter Fashion Draft NYC now
The style blog of The Financial Times writes about Fashion Draft NYC:
Parsons and the New York City Economic Development Corporation team up to create Fashion Draft NYC,” an initiative that “will bring a select group of top business-minded students from around the world to New York City to network and interview with fashion executives,” and follows Fashion Campus NYC, a...
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Fast Company: "Nerd York City: Why Bloomberg Wants...
Fast Company writes about our Applied Sciences NYC initiative:
Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration has been vocal about their desire to bring a world-class applied science school to New York City. The media-titan-turned-mayor is accepting proposals for an applied science campus to be built on city land; submissions are due on Friday, October 28. A who’s-who of local and...
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Yelp Joins Growing List of Tech Companies Opening...
“This announcement is a vote of confidence in our City’s future, and once again confirms that New York City is emerging as a critical hub within the global innovation economy,” said NYCEDC President Seth Pinsky. “Yelp joins an already impressive roster of high-tech companies that have recently established or expanded their presence in the City, and we now look forward to...
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Halloween Events at NYCEDC Venues
This Halloween, have a happy and safe celebration at the following NYCEDC locales:
October 29: Coney Island Children’s Halloween Parade (1904 Surf Ave)
October 31: Halloween at Moore Street Market (110 Moore St.)
October 31: BAMboo! (in front of BAM Peter Jay Sharp Building)
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NYC Food Manufacturers Business Expo
Yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg, City Council Speaker Quinn, and NYCEDC President Pinsky attended the first ever City-sponsored food manufacturer business expo and networking event where more than 100 New York City-based immigrant food manufacturing businesses connected with brokers, buyers and wholesalers from the food industry. The expo also marked the beginning of a competition for immigrant...
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Celebrate National Food Day!
nycdigital:
nycfoodrecipes:
To celebrate Food Day and healthy eating, the New York City Mayor’s Office is asking New Yorkers to submit your favorite healthy recipe!
What better place to pick up fresh ingredients for National Food Day than our very own NYC Markets? Get the offerings above at La Marqueta (1590 Park Avenue) in the Lower East Side.
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Artists as Entrepreneur alumni exhibit at Hive at... →
In a great marriage of two of our initiatives, alumni from our Artists as Entrepreneur 2010 class will be exhibiting their work at Hive at 55, a co-working space in Lower Manhattan that is part of the City’s network of affordable workspaces for entrepreneurs and startups.
“The Balance” art exhibition – the first at Hive at 55 – will feature works by a diverse group of NYC artists, including...
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This week at NYCEDC
This week at NYCEDC:
We invited you to the NYC Food Manufacturers Business Expo and Networking Event
We shared an update from NYCEDC President Seth Pinsky on Applied Sciences NYC
We highlighted the improvements, office space, and jobs we’ve brought to Queens
We quoted Mayor Bloomberg at Techstars Demo Day
We broke ground at the Federal Building in Sunset Park, Brooklyn
We listened to...
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NYC Food Manufacturers Business Expo and...
Attention, cupcake-makers, food truck chefs, pop-up gourmets, and more: learn from industry experts how to gain a competitive advantage and grow your business.
Join NYC Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, NYCEDC President Seth Pinsky, the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade (NASFT), and industry experts at the upcoming NYC Food Manufacturers Business Expo and Networking Event.
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A Word from Seth: Applied Sciences NYC Update
By Seth Pinsky, President of NYCEDC
In just one week, we will reach the City’s deadline for academic institutions to submit their final proposals for Applied Sciences NYC, a groundbreaking initiative that has the potential to permanently impact the future of our local economy and create thousands of new jobs. Last December, we launched Applied Sciences NYC with a Request for Expressions of...
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NYCEDC Brings Improvements, Office Space, and Jobs...
In the Queens Gazette, John Toscano’s article “‘Pick-A-Name’, Mayor Announces, For New Queens Plaza Park” mentions several of NYCEDC’s Queens initiatives:
To revitalize the visage of the district’s main thoroughfare, Jackson Avenue, NYCEDC completed a full $17 million streetscape project in fall 2010 that transformed it into a tree-lined median with new...
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“New York really is a city that dreams big and works hard to make those dreams...”
– Mayor Bloomberg at Techstars Demo Day (via nycdigital)
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Renovation of Federal Building in Sunset Park...
Rendering of Federal Building #2 Redevelopment
Mayor Bloomberg, NYCEDC, and Congressmembers Nydia M. Velázquez and Jerrold Nadler broke ground today on the renovation of Federal Building #2 in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The vacant 1.1 million-square-foot warehouse building will be converted to a state-of-the-art industrial facility, with 85% of the space to be used for light manufacturing purposes...
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WatchWatch NYCEDC President Seth Pinsky’s speech at the Municipal Art Society Summit for NYC. He discusses how the City is creating jobs by fostering innovation and entrepreneurship; modernizing its legacy industries such as fashion, media, and finance; and investing in technology and future growth with Applied Sciences NYC.
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Businessweek: New York's Incredible Startup Boom
“New York Is Having ‘Incredible’ Startup Boom” write Danielle Kucera and Dan Colarusso in Bloomberg Businessweek:
New York is becoming a more popular city for startups, attracting angel investors and entrepreneurs in what Eric Hippeau, a partner at Lerer Ventures, called an ‘incredible’ entrepreneurial boom.
NYCEDC has created an ecosystem to develop...
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New York Daily News: "Good times coming back to...
In their article “Good times coming back to the city,” The New York Daily News explores the economics behind NYC’s ascent out of the recession.
On NYC’s tech sector, they said the following:
New York … has given rise to Internet forces like Foursquare Labs and Gilt Groupe and spawned countless startups. Google, Facebook and Twitter have all opened major outposts...
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BetaBeat: "Technical Lead of NYC Big Apps Breaks... →
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“The New York City metropolitan area’s startups attracted $831 million in...”
– “City’s VC action more than triples in third quarter” by Rebecca Olles in Crain’s New York Business
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“Times are tough, but economic flowers are blooming in the city’s fertile soil -...”
– (via nycdigital)
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“More than 100,000 people [were] expected to attend the New York Comic Con at the...”
– NYC & Company
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The New York Times: "East River Ferries Are a Hit"
The New York Times praised our East River Ferry Service, which offers commuters a new transportation option and will help to revitalize New York City’s waterfront:
The East River service is an experiment to spur development in revitalized sections of the industrial riverfront in Queens and Brooklyn. The boats connect Midtown and the financial district near Wall Street with, for the fall...
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Curate NYC heats up →
Take a look at the entries to NYCEDC and Full Spectrum’s Curate NYC competition.
NYC-based emerging artists, submit your own work for consideration by October 31, 2011 for your chance to get your work shown in galleries across the five boroughs.
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This week at NYCEDC
This week at NYCEDC:
We got featured in The New York Daily News for Applied Sciences NYC
We watched NYCEDC President Seth Pinsky present at Web 2.0 Expo in New York
We launched NYC BigApps 3.0 at New York Tech Meetup
We heard Mayor Bloomberg talk innovation at New York Tech Meetup
We noted that private sector employment has risen by 2% in NYC
We listened to NYCEDC President Seth Pinsky...
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BAM Cultural District: NYCEDC and other City...
Mayor Bloomberg, New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, and NYCEDC President Seth Pinsky broke ground yesterday on the BRIC Arts | Media House and UrbanGlass Renewal Project.
A multi-disciplinary arts and media complex at the former site of the Strand Theatre at 647 Fulton Street, the $33 million City-funded renovation project will double...
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Socrata Enables Data-driven Innovation in New York... →
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Living Wage Laws: New York vs. Boston and Los...
Critics of the living wage study by Charles River Associates and procured by NYCEDC claim that the laws in Boston and LA are broader and more sweeping than what is being proposed here. And if the laws can work there, they can work here.
We’d like to examine those claims to set the record straight.
First, the Boston legislation covers contractors that do business with the City, which is a far...
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