It's second, but I do think it's weak relative to the size of the city and the unfulfilled potential of what it could be. The NY metropolitan area is ~20M peo

It's second, but I do think it's weak relative to the size of the city and the unfulfilled potential of what it could be. The NY metropolitan area is ~20M people, but it's clearly much weaker when it comes to tech than the bay area at only ~7M people (I'd say, a magnitude less in number of tech startups alone), and somewhat stronger than the Boston metro area at 4M but not significantly so. Having lived in all three (and now living in Manhattan for 4 years), I don't think for example there is significantly more tech meetups (maybe even less?) or startups (definitely numerically more, but not of better quality) than in Boston, while by numbers alone it should be a whole magnitude greater.