This Week at NYCEDC:
- We brought in larger East River Ferry vessels to run on summer weekends
- We revealed the first class of Design Entrepreneurs who will start the “Mini-MBA” program to combine their fashion sense with business sense
- We encouraged you to enter NYC Media Lab’s “Media Mashup” app competition
- We kicked off Coney Island’s summer season with Mayor Bloomberg
- We displayed our “New York City. A Step Ahead” posters that can be found around NYC
- We heard Google’s Larry Page on Charlie Rose discussing the importance of universities in developing NYC’s technology sector
- We noted that Greg Pass, former CTO of Twitter, will be CornellNYC’s Founding Entrepreneurial Officer
- We discovered that the Green Book will now be available online
- We accepted the IMA Award for Best in Class, B2B, for our redesigned NYCEDC.com
- We introduced you to the 19 firms selected to participate in the Blueprint to Success Program
- We announced that Google will donate space in its NYC headquarters to CornellNYC Tech while the Roosevelt Island campus is constructed
- We posted photos of our Internet Week NY panel “NYC BigApps, Civic Hacking, Startup Success”
Have a great Memorial Day Weekend, NYC!
Photos: Fleet Week 2012 by Byron Huart
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