March 2011
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NYC BigApps 2.0 Awards Ceremony →
We have a few more tickets to the NYC BigApps 2.0 Awards Ceremony tomorrow with Mayor Bloomberg, announcing the winners of this year’s competition! Act fast to RSVP, as it is first-come, first-served. View the NYC BigApps submissions in the Application Gallery.
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NYC Startup Job Fair
Be sure to check out NYC Startup Job Fair coming up next Friday, April 8th at AOL headquarters. You can meet stellar local startups such as Rent the Runway, Yodle, SecondMarket, Meetup, and Gilt’s JetSetter. Sign up in advance to gain entry to the fair - they’ll be meeting with engineers only from 1-2:30pm, and will open up the fair to everyone else from 2:30 - 5pm. Students,...
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March 2011: Careers at NYCEDC
NYCEDC is great place to get involved in projects that shape the City. Learn more about the benefits of working at NYCEDC. We’ll be publishing a careers post each month featuring several open positions at NYCEDC. Currently, we’re seeking:
Senior Planner, Planning The New York City Economic Development Corporation is seeking a Senior Planner to manage the planning and environmental...
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Shushing the Helicopters
By Ali Ruth Davis, AVP, Government & Community Relations, NYCEDC
Since the City began administering the Downtown Heliport in Lower Manhattan in 2008, we have come to understand that helicopters can be loud.
As New Yorkers, we all understand that dealing with noise is part of living in the city. From ambulance sirens to the roar of the subway, our urban environment is full of sound that often...
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Big Turnout at Coney Island Job Screenings
Over 1,200 job seekers attended three job screenings held this month for positions at Coney Island this summer—specifically, 275 full and part-time seasonal positions available in fields such as customer service, retail, food and beverage service, park service, ride and game operations, party hosts, event staff, and ground maintenance. At the job screening, attendees learned about potential job...
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A Word from Seth: Willets Point Redevelopment
By Seth Pinsky, President of NYCEDC
I recently wrote about 2011 as a year that will come with challenges, but also offers our City very exciting opportunities. One of the most important of those opportunities can be found at Willets Point in Queens, where we are seeking to build New York City’s next great neighborhood. The 62-acre site is highly contaminated and still lacks basic infrastructure,...
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The Engineers are Coming
In December, Mayor Bloomberg issued a challenge to help diversify the City’s economy and boost the growing technology sector by developing a new applied science and engineering research campus in New York City. Since then, university representatives from four continents have visited the City to learn more about the initiative. We held an information session at the New York Stock Exchange and...
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OpenNY: Improving the City's Web Interfaces
At tonight’s OpenNY meetup, you can collaborate with Rachel Sterne, the City’s Chief Digital Officer, to workgroup improvements to the City’s Developer Policy, DataMine, NYCStat, NYCity Map, & City Calendar. Your feedback will help shape a 90-day review of City’s public digital infrastructure.
Up for discussion:
NYC DataMine - http://nyc.gov/data
NYCStat -...
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs: How Community Partnership...
By Hunter Goldman and Dara Nussbaum-Vazquez
New York City is one of the most diverse and culturally vibrant cities in the nation. Where else in the country can you walk down the street and see signs written in Bangla, Mandarin, and Spanish - all on the same block? But immigrants don’t just add to the cultural diversity of the City – they account for a large part of its economic growth....
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We’re Hiring 3 Junior Accountants
NYCEDC has 3 positions open for junior accountants to start as soon as possible. We’re looking for recent graduates with their bachelor’s degrees in Accounting. You will work within different capacities within the Accounting Department to gain a solid foundation in all the processes and procedures. Eventually, you will focus in one of those areas, depending on departmental needs.
The...
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Summer Job Opportunities at Coney Island
It’s been a long winter, but summer will soon return – which means you’ll be able to enjoy warm days, hot dogs, fireworks, and roller coasters at Coney Island. This also means Coney Island is gearing up to hire seasonal workers. Looking for a summer job? Stop by our Luna Park, Scream Zone, and Cyclone prescreening event, which starts tomorrow. Details below. Central Amusement International and...
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Roundtable with Cristóbal Conde, SunGard CEO
By David Gilford, Ann Li, Steven Strauss Center for Economic Transformation
As part of NYC Venture Fellows, NYCEDC recently hosted a group of entrepreneurs in a roundtable breakfast with Cristóbal Conde. The CEO of SunGard, one of the world’s largest financial services and information technology firms, Mr. Conde engaged the group in an interactive discussion on leadership and entrepreneurship,...
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Mark Birch. Strong Opinions.: Evaluating the Tech... →
Are you an entrepreneur looking to join an incubator? Here’s more advice on how to evaluate what may be a good space for you.
marksbirch:
It seems as if a new incubator programs is starting up on a daily basis. In New York City alone, the following programs are kicking off their Spring / Summer programs:
Astia 2011 New York
TechStars NYC Summer Program
NYC SeedStart Media 2011
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Immigrants are a significant and important piece of the City’s entrepreneurial economy. Did you know that 49% of all self-employed workers in the City are foreign-born, compared to 25% in New York State and only 12% in the United States? Today, we launched three new initiatives to help strengthen and expand their businesses:
Business Plan Competition for innovative strategies to provide...
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"Kitchen Aid" on NYPost.com
Check out The Entrepreneur’s Space food incubator in Queens, featured in the New York Post. See some NYCEDC exclusive photos below!
Photos by NYCEDC/Alex Ho
