World to NYC Recap

We held our first World to NYC session of the year this past week and received an excellent response. With over 50 participants representing 32 companies from over 10 countries (including five Latin American nations), the program apprised key business leaders of how they can thrive in the New York City tech landscape.

The three-day event consisted of company tours, panel discussions, lectures, and multiple networking events. Panels of successful foreign entrepreneurs, legal advisors, HR representatives, and venture capitalists instructed attendees how to...

New York City’s Pet Population

As New York City’s dog lovers anxiously await the crowning of this year’s “Best In Show” at The Westminster Kennel Club’s 136th Annual Dog Show at Madison Square Garden, we estimated the number of pets (dogs and cats only) that call New York City their home.

Based on our analysis, we estimate that there are approximately 1.1 million pets in the City (600,000 dogs and 500,000 cats), or an ownership rate of about one pet for every three households. This figure is lower than the national average (about 60%), as you might expect given the City’s...

2012 Summer Fancy Food Show

Deadline Extended to February 15th

NYC-based food manufacturing businesses, apply now for your chance to win an all-expense paid trip to showcase your product in a city-sponsored booth at the NASFT 2012 Summer Fancy Food Show!

The 2012 Summer Fancy Food Show is a premier international food trade event that is expected to connect more than 15,000 buyers to 250,000 specialty food products. As part of our continuing...

New York Fashion Week 2012

 
New York Fashion Week is officially here!  The iconic semiannual event held throughout the city includes over 250 fashion shows and attracts about 232,000 total attendees each year. Did you also know?

• Citywide, Fashion Week generates $532 million in direct visitor spending per year, leading to $865 million in total economic impact each year.
• Collectively, fashion trade shows, events and showrooms generate over 578,000 annual out-of-town visits, accounting for 14% of all conventioneers to the City.
• New York City’s fashion retail market—the largest in the country—is growing at a considerable rate. From 2010 to 2025, it is projected...

Cornell NYC Tech Talent Draft

Han Solo, Chewbacca, R2-D2, and C-3PO were instrumental in the Draft.

By Betsy Scherzer, Project Manager, Media & Emerging Technology and Lushi Li, Senior Project Manager

On February 1, NYCEDC and seven of NYC’s hottest startups boarded the NYC Startup Bus to journey to galaxies far, far away…err, Ithaca, for the first-ever Cornell University Startup Career Fair.

Following a busy afternoon of career fair booth visits, startup...

Theatre of the Oppressed

This Monday evening at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, check out Theatre of the Oppressed NYC’s performance of “The Worm in the Big Apple”—a story of trying to survive in New York, based on the real-life experiences of the ensemble.

Katy Rubin, founding artistic director of this innovative theater, is a graduate of NYCEDC and New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) ...

Cornell University's First Startup Career Fair

Happening now: NYC Tech Talent Draft at Cornell, the university’s first engineering and technical startup career fair since winning the Applied Sciences NYC bid. More than 40 New York City, central New York State and Northeast region startup companies are recruiting at the fair this afternoon at Cornell’s Ithaca campus.

Startup companies attending the fair include: Knewton, Harvest, Red Rover, Gate Guru, IyouVo, Nohms Technologies, Facebook, Twitter,...

NYC Venture Fellow's Company GKIDS at the Oscars

New York night scene in "Chico & Rita."

We’re so pleased that NYC Venture Fellow Eric Beckman, founder and CEO of GKIDS, an animated art-house and family movie distribution company, had two of GKIDS' films nominated for Best Animated Feature for the 2012 Academy Awards!

• "Chico & Rita" Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal