How New York Finally Found Its Place in the Tech Boom

... history behind the "Silicon Alley" moniker: It originated in the 1990s as a label for an area in the Flatiron District and was closely tied to the crop of startups, many of them media-related, that sprang up during the dot-com boom - which fizzled ...
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Adam Platt's Where to Eat 2017

... perfect (and, at $32, not inexpensive) example of the last dish on the menu of Antoine Westermann's new Flatiron District establishment, Le Coq Rico (30 E. 20th St.; 212-267-7426), which has been overrun with devout big-city Francophiles ever since ...
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New York City's Tech Community Is Getting A $250 Million Home Base At Union Square

Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen lays out the city's vision for the new development, anchored by Civic Hall, which could open as early as 2020. Until now, New York City's technology community has led a nomadic existence-meetups in startup lounges strewn with pizza, incubators operating out of empty corporate cubicles.
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NYC's Civic Tech Community Calls for Increased Involvement in Government

About 200 New York City-based web technologists gathered after work on a recent Friday evening to hear highlights from two of the civic tech community's biggest conferences - and for an open bar. But what was supposed to be a routine debrief of the Code for America Summit and the Mozilla Festival, each held a few weeks earlier, was overshadowed by impassioned post-election calls by many speakers to get more involved in government.
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Eleven Seven Music's Role In Saving Rock: 'We Realized the Major Labels Were Giving Up on It'

In a masonry loft building on West 21st Street in in Manhattan's Flatiron District, the offices of independent label Eleven Seven Music are comfortably removed from the glitzier midtown home of most of the multinational music companies. "You would have to hire a private investigator to find a major-label person [down here]," jokes Allen Kovac, 61, CEO of the rock-focused Eleven Seven Music and its sister company, Tenth Street Entertainment, as he sits in a spacious company conference room.
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Jolly New Yorkers Take Over Midtown For SantaCon 2016

Hundreds of New Yorkers, dressed in bright red Santa suits, braved the chilly weather on Saturday for the annual pub crawl, which kicked off at the Flatiron Building Plaza in Gramercy. Started in San Francisco in 1994, the all-day event takes place in three other cities and even expanded internationally with a London installment.
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SantaCon in NYC: See photos from the Manhattan bar crawl

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SantaCon aims for lively, safe bar crawl despite checkered past

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Here's How to Avoid SantaCon This Weekend

SantaCon, the day when adults in Santa costumes gather together to terrorize New York streets, is back on Saturday, December 10. Of course you want nothing to do with it, so it's lucky that organizers have once again revealed their plan of action in advance - allowing you to easily avoid the shit show. This year, the red-and-green horde will descend on 45 different bars in Midtown, the Flatiron District, and the East Village.
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Blue Hill at Stone Barns and Cosme Land on Bill Addison's Best Restaurants in America List

... right here . Bill's Best Restaurants in America list also shines the spotlight on Enrique Olvera 's chic Flatiron District Mexican establishment, Cosme , where the food is both forward-thinking and absolutely craveable. Here's Bill's take on that ...
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Fabric Images, Inc. Collaborates in Fabrication of Flatiron Sky-Line Installation in NY

... District (BID) and Van Alen Institute. The temporary installation sits within the heart of the Flatiron District as a highly visible landmark. Fabric Images, Inc.'s role in The Flatiron Sky-Line consisted of engineering and producing a series of ten ...
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