‘Silicon Alley’ Revival in NYC: How Likely?

Alex Goldman
SemanticWeb.com Contributor

InternetNews.com

Experts debate whether the economic crisis gives the city an opportunity to reduce its dependence on Wall Street, and more on tech.

“When I arrived here about ten years ago, Silicon Alley was booming,” said Mel Horwitch, director of the Institute of Technology and Enterprise at NYU’s Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, and moderator of a discussion titled “Can This Community Be Saved?” His comments came during the Building the Broadband Economy 2009 summit of the Intelligent Community Forum held at the university.

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