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Building in NYC

I'll bet you don't know where the Center of NY's Tech Community and Center of Creativity is.

Give up?

It's in the Financial District--right at 55 Broad Street.  It says so right on their website.  In fact, it is "well-known internationally as the original home of New York's technology community."

I'll bet you didn't know that--mostly because it never was.  Back in the late 90's, a lot of money and real estate brokering went into trying to make it so, however.  Names like Sun and Cornell (ironically, given the new tech campus) were brought in to try and tech-ify NYC's downtown area.

To read the full, original article click on this link: - Thisisgoingtobebig.com - How VCs, Accelerators, and Coworking Spaces Put Communities in Buildings vs. Buildings in Communities