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No college in NYC has any space available for anything. Try to get a room to hold a meetup--it's tough. By process of elimination, this is aimed at startups in
by ganeumann 13y ago
No college in NYC has any space available for anything. Try to get a room to hold a meetup--it's tough. By process of elimination, this is aimed at startups in the college-run incubators/startup spaces. As such, this doesn't sound like something done to benefit citizens, more like something done to benefit universities.
- judk 13y agoIt looks like it is designed to look like a major initiative, but with thr specific constraints written to only admit a few hand-picker winners who are friends of the sponsors. Like many government contracts that pretend to be open for bidding.
- troymc 13y agoOne exception may be the new Cornell NYC Tech campus on Roosevelt Island, once it's ready. It explicitly mixes academic space and corporate office space. More details in this NY Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/22/nyregion/cornell-nyc-tech-will-foster-commerce-amid-education.html?pagewanted%253Dall http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/22/nyregion/cornell-nyc-tech-...