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Tell HN: There really is a tech boom in NYC

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I spent the beginning of last week in NYC meeting with lots of startups and geeks. There was a real buzz to the place and I appreciated how smart, thoughtful, hospitable and open everyone was.

I'm moving to Manhattan/Brooklyn this summer and look forward to meeting more of you.

For anyone interested, here's the heatmap from my checkins for Mon-Wed: http://bit.ly/cEvVGU

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Nice to see all you guys moving to the NYC area, shoot me an e-mail once you are all here and I'd love to show you guys around.

http://groups.google.com/group/nyyc Our NYC HN / Hackers & Founders meetup, we usually meet the last thursday of each month.

Hope to see y'all soon!

Thanks. Had to leave before this meetup, was bummed I couldn't make it. Hopefully in July...

I'm surprised none of your checkins are in Williamsburg. That is, after all, where the NYTimes says all the action is: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/technology/07reboot.html

The funny thing is there seems to be a Westward migration as companies get their feet under them.

I live in Brooklyn, on St. John's Place, just off of 8th Avenue. But I work over in Manhattan. Darren Hoyt, who co-developed www.wpquestions.com lives over in Manhattan. We are both looking forward to investing a fair amount of time this summer to building up our site.

I'm also moving to Manhattan or Brooklyn this summer, also to work on a startup. We should meet up.

Sounds good, what are you working on?

Track.com - we're in the financial research space. You?

Not positive yet. Really interested in the green/sustainability space, trying to determine the best point of entry.

I'm moving to Brooklyn as well, also, mostly, to focus on my startup.

Moving to NYC from where?

From The Bahamas actually. I've been here for the last three years: http://islandschool.org http://ceibahamas.org http://capesystemslimited.com

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