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This is pretty awesome, and it seems to apply to New York City too:

- In New York City, Long Island and Westchester County, businesses must be start-ups or one of a number of broadly defined “high technology” businesses.

But this looks like a major caveat:

- Participation in START-UP NY does not necessarily require that your business be on or next to a campus, but it must be located on property affiliated with a university.

That's a very "interesting" requirement. I wonder how it will work in practice? What does it mean for a property to be "affiliated"?

Edit: here are the 3 NYC locations: http://startup-ny.com/properties/new-york-city-properties/

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Those 3 locations (all at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn) are "representative of the types of properties that may be available following submission of an application by the relevant university/college and approval by ESD and/or the Start-Up Approval Board". So, you could work with any university in NYC, not just SUNY Downstate (although the campus is a really nice spot for startups as well!)

NYU Poly operates incubators at Jay St/MetroTech in Brooklyn and Varick St in Manhattan. Columbia has a biotech incubator (AUDOBON) in Washington Heights. Cornell has 22k ft^2 in Google's building in Chelsea. All of those sounds like they would qualify (if you could get the right people on board)

I'm curious if SUNY gets what it wants and is allowed to close LICH whether they'd hang on to some of the space and try to get research into the area.. That's a huge tract of land (and I'd like to see it not sit completely vacant for a few years)

NYU-Poly has another incubator spot further up Jay St in DUMBO as well, looks like a nice space from the 15 minutes I've spent inside.

agreed!

I'm a bit confused about the "need to work in a university provisioned space". Theres so many ways i'd rather interact with / collaborate with folks at universities than use their office space. Though If that meant I could have zero pay wells for papers I need to look up occasionally, that could be tempting!

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