Higher education leaders expressed the desire for stronger collaboration among the private and public sector in order to better prepare and train students for the workforce of the future. At the Crain’s “Future of New York City Conference,” panelists from leading educational institutions in the city said these kinds of […]
Month: November 2014
Diversity is the Key to New York’s Economic Development, Says Alicia Glen
New York City is hemorrhaging jobs in the financial sector and JP Morgan Chase may soon have more employees in Texas than New York, said Glenn Coleman at the Crain’s Future of New York Conference this Thursday. He wanted to know what Alicia Glen, the city’s Deputy Mayor of Housing […]
Joint venture sets out to build new neighborhood in Queens
Mayor Michael Bloomberg stumped before the Queens Chamber of Commerce two years ago flanked by real estate giants Related Companies and Sterling Equities. The pair, he announced, had gotten the green light to redevelop Willets Point, not too far away. Two years later, the joint venture, known as the […]
Major art institutions weigh in on possible City Council cultural plan
While New Yorkers are still waiting for Mayor de Blasio to release an economic plan, some city council members are proposing to set forth a cultural plan for the Mayor to consider in the city where only 30% of New Yorkers bought a ticket to a Broadway show last season. […]
Few details in humble plan for city economy
The De Blasio administration is looking to “backfill” the finance jobs it expects to lose with growing industries like tech, a top city official said Thursday, asserting that the city wouldn’t “pay” to keep jobs here. In a speech light on specifics, Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen disparaged the competition New […]
For NYC colleges, readiness begins long before first day of grade school
The biggest obstacle New York City universities face isn’t just getting more students in the STEM fields and onto other technology paths. It’s getting more students ready to start college in the first place. That preparation doesn’t start when students leave their high schools. It begins much earlier, and higher […]
Tech Spurs Growth in Tourism in New York, Experts Say
Tech in New York is innovating all of the economy’s major sectors, and travel and tourism is no exception. A panel of travel and tourism industry experts at this year’s Crain’s Future of New York City Conference, agreed that social media and other technology increases access to New York and […]
If new manufacturing is going to be unique, the zoning has to be, too
If manufacturing is going to have a revival in New York, its leaders are going to need help from the city. Just no money, please. Instead, manufacturing leaders would prefer the city rezone and provide tax credits to ensure the reshaping industry keeps producing. If varying forms of rezoning were […]
Airbnb; the six-letter word
The fight over Airbnb boils down to a fight over taxes. Airbnb has been in the news a lot lately for its incredible growth and popularity among customers. Proponents of the online accommodation site point to its ingenuity as a boon for the tourism industry and for the city. But that […]
Execs To City Public School Kids: Learn To Code (and Read and Write)
City high schools should teach students to code computers, business leaders said Thursday. “We need to inject programming and computer science into the core curriculum at the earliest age possible,” said Jon Brod, a former NBA executive now piloting start-ups. Brod, currently heading up an instant messaging app startup called […]