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Aug
07

Tech's Boom Taps Queens

The Wall Street Journal explores the expansion of NYC’s tech scene across the East River:

New York’s technology boom has a new beachhead, and it’s in Queens.

The challenge of meeting steep rents in Manhattan’s tech-oriented Chelsea, SoHo and Flatiron neighborhoods has already pushed the start-up scene into parts of Brooklyn. Now, efforts under way in Long Island City aim to turn the waterfront area into a silicon sliver.

Read the full article and find out more about the nearby CornellNYC Tech applied sciences campus coming to Roosevelt Island.

Photo: Songza’s offices in LIC. Andrew Hinderaker/The Wall Street Journal

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