Silicon Valley

'Coding 101' Could Be Coming To A NYC Public School Near You

Mayor Bloomberg has repeated time and time again that he believes New York City will be the next Silicon Valley. And, in some senses, his dream is coming true: SoHo has become a start-up assembly machine, Long Island City is attracting tech-hybrid manufacturers with its large, abandoned warehouses a ... More >>

WILD THING

T.J. Miller Hits Gotham Comedy Club

It's Bollywood for Your Tongue at Chote Nawab

Curry Hill gets a great Indian newcomer

Deccan Spice: They Got Your Goat

Eggs, too, in Jersey City's version of Hyderabad

Joe Fires Up the Roasters

Joe brings Guatemala to your press pot. [See More Kaffee Klatsch: Espresso To Stay, Surfboard To Go? | Black Coffee Roasting Company Beans Arrive at Murray's] Walk around San Francisco's South Bay for a while, through Silicon Valley towns like Mountain View and Palo Alto, and you're likely to dis ... More >>

Big Apple's Unemployment Rate Hits 10% Again

We hate the phrase 'double-dip,' especially when it becomes an unfortunate reality.In September of 2009, as President Obama's stimulus package was beginning to leak into the economy, New York City's unemployment rate hit its peak of 10.1% and stayed there for six months. Since then, the job num ... More >>

The Domino Sugar Factory Deal: $160 Million and a Waterfront View

If you've ever drove/ran/biked across the Williamsburg Bridge, you have probably seen the Domino Sugar factory. The pre-Civil-War industrial building used to be the largest sugar refinery in the world; now, its worn-down streaks are covered with bright graffiti and its drabness is reminisc ... More >>

Google is Giving Space to Cornell in Manhattan; NYC Still Isn't Silicon Valley -- But It's Getting There!

Move aside, Silicon Valley! Or, you know, watch your back. New York City is trying to compete with the tech-y town to be the tech center of the universe -- and Google is helping. (FYI: New York City is still second to Silicon Valley, but it's trying!) Today, Mayor Mike Bloomberg joined Google CE ... More >>

Five Things You Can Do to Buy NYC's Million-Dollar Parking Spot

Recession? What recession?This morning, the Post reported that the city's most expensive parking spot is now on sale at 66 E. 11th Street in a tiny private garage. The location lies within a $38.8 million loft owned by developer Moran Fareed and includes a shower that shoots vitamin-C-and-aloe infus ... More >>

Why Do Mexicans Change Their Names, Seemingly at Whim?

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on PIPA and SOPA: Time to Take a Step Back and Start Over

Listen up, Wikipedia, Google, and all you other folks who shut down websites and changed your Facebook profile pic in solidarity! Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand heard you loud and clear and said this morning that it's time to take a step back and reevaluate PIPA and SOPA. This times well with reports tha ... More >>

There's a New Pho Parlor in Town - and It's Pretty Good

​A bowl of Xe Lua pho at Pho 88, flanked by giant fresh basil leaves, sprouts, and the usual arsenal of flavorings (chiles pastes, hoisin, etc.) to be added in. The make or break of any full-service Vietnamese restaurant is its pho. While this beef noodle soup originated as street food in F ... More >>

Revenge of the Electric Car

Part of Obama Health Care Program Scrapped; Bishop Indicted for Failing to Report Abuse; Steve Jobs Memorial

​The Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act, or CLASS, has been cut from the health care bill signed by Obama in 2010. The program relied on monthly premiums and would offer protection to those who signed up. CNN reports that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius ... More >>

New York City Is Now the Second Most Techy in the Nation

​Yeah, we're not Silicon Valley, no matter what you want to think. (Personally, we have no interest in being Silicon Valley.) Crain's reports, however, that New York City has replaced Boston as the Number 2 tech hub in the nation, with $642.2 million in venture capital funding coming into the ... More >>

Study: Americans Won't Pay More for Healthy Food; The E.Coli Outbreak in Germany Really Is the Worst Ever

​The new generation of Silicon Valley millionaires may be foodies, but they prefer cheaper food to fancy restaurants, and are partial to ethnic fare. [Wall Street Journal] The restaurant industry is applauding legislators for changing debit-card swipe fees from 44 cents on average per transac ... More >>

Mark Zuckerberg Is "The Facebook Killer" (In A Good Way!)

​Mark Zuckerberg is supposed to be the people's billionaire. He's pretty un-hot, lives in a modest house, has a regular girlfriend, keeps a tight watch on his Facebook page, and only wears flip-flops! Billionaires: They're just like us! Well, one thing that normal people definitely do not do i ... More >>

Yi Lan Halal Restaurant--on the Lamb in Flushing

We sneak out for some Muslim Chinese

Jerry Lawson, Inventor of the Video Game Cartridge, Dead at 70

​Remember when video games used to come in cartridges? Everyone born in the '80s or early '90s remembers the satisfying click of putting their favorite game into their NES, Super Nintendo or Nintendo 64. Everyone remembers going to their one rich friend's house and seeing his jumbled crate of ... More >>

Fun Facts About Google's First Employee

​Craig Silverstein met Google's Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford before the turn of the century and became the robot car-creating search engine giant's first employee. Allegedly he is a human. Needless to say, he's never needed another job and didn't even finish his doctorate. This weeke ... More >>

Paterson's State of the State: Upbeat, Lots of Programs. (Plus: Tax Incentives!)

Governor Paterson gave his annual State of the State speech, and although there were some of the grim zingers to which we've grown accustomed to hearing from him -- "The days of running New York like a payday loan operation must come to an end" is our favorite -- he mostly boosted the state ("New Y ... More >>

When Good Organs Go Bad: Original Joe's in San Jose

​Organs are so simple, it would be hard to screw them up, right? It's generally the case that if you treat them with reverence, cook them simply and carefully, that they come out perfect every time, especially if you wash them properly. But even the Organ Meat Society sometimes stumbles on or ... More >>

Weekend Special: Amazing Things I Ate in the Bay Area

​"Crab butter" featuring local crab at the Swan Oyster Depot, San Francisco (click to savor) A recent 10-day trip to San Francisco convinced me that, taken together, the California coastal strip from San Jose to Fort Bragg offers eating every bit as good as we have here in the NY metro area. T ... More >>

Rightwing, Tea'd Out, Returns to Galt-Going

Now that the tea parties are settled, we can return to traditional conservative concerns -- sloppy dressers, and Going Galt. George Will today decries the common herd's taste for denim (did you know that even "Silicon Valley billionaires" wear it?), TV programming that "frequently features childli ... More >>

'Into the Sunset': The MOMA Corrals a Photo Survey of the American West

The museum saddles up, effaces history

Law Firms Also Hit by Recession

The one group that we thought would never feel the pinch of the New Depression has actually seen some stunning reversals lately. The New York Law Journal reports that profits at the Cravath, Swaine & Moore law firm fell 24 percent last year, and 16 percent at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy. In Wash ... More >>

Roastarama!

Latest "Leave Sarah Alone!" Rant from WSJ

CGI Joe

How the military and private tech contractors are training a new generation of soldiers

Khan Edison

Poles scream as chiles explode in the wilds of New Jersey

Message In A Bottle

Indian telemarketers learn it pays to mimic TV's Friends

Film

Stop Time

Eadweard Muybridge and the Age of the Image

After the Fall

Breaking and Entering

Dance Without Me

China Conflict: The Profit Motive

GOP and Big Business Could Benefit From Clash

E-Bombs Away! Protest, Panic, and the Politics of Packet Monkeys

Left To My Own Devices

Memoirs of a wired student

Money Porn

Welcome to the Sweepstakes Era. Wanna Play?

Brain Drain

Morphing student techies into a modern-day breakfast club 

Profit Prophets

Wonks Predict Stormy Health Care Ahead

Fortune Teller

An Interview With Silicon Valley Voyeur Po Bronson

Killer Instinct

APB Online Hopes Crime Will Pay

Fanning the Fame

Star Search

Behind the Screen

Online Stripping Takes Off

And the Cool Site Winner Is...

Robbed

Upstart Start-Ups