One of New Work City’s goals is to help foster entrepreneurial activity in New York. Charlie O’Donnell, founder of Path101 and NYC tech’s best and most active online community, NextNY, recently testified to the NYC City Council about how to improve the city’s technology/small business sector.

He offered some fantastic advice. One excerpt:

Innovation comes not from technology, but from people—and New York City technology has a people problem. Local schools, with few exceptions, are not consistantly developing students focused on creating value through entrepreneurship and technological innovation. You can build all the incubators you want—unless you’re seeding students as early as high school or junior high with the idea that they could build the next Google here in New York, and giving them the learning tools to accomplish that, it’s never going to happen.

Read the rest here.

Charlie breaks down actionable steps that can be taken by the city to help create some real, sustained growth.

Kudos to Charlie for continuing to work toward helping grow NYC’s startup scene!

Ikea shipment arrived, friends came to help, and before you knew it, we had tables and chairs!

Thanks to Fredrick, Nidhi, Dave, Steve, and JP for coming by to chip in and help out!

We’ve got a special evening lined up for you this Saturday! Join fellow New Workers along with some of the leaders of the global coworking movement as we celebrate the opening of New Work City!

Itinerary

Here’s a breakdown of what we’ll be doing:

8:00pm – Pre-party warmup discussions: Coworking coaching session with Raines Cohen, Coworking Coach!

9:00pm – Toast and party kickoff

10:30 – 11pm – Move to the Four Points Sheraton, around the corner

Here’s the info:

Address & Directions

Address:
200 Varick St, Room 507B
New York, NY 10014 (Map)

Tell security you’re there for Rom 507B, Element N. This is the company hosting us.

Directions:
Take the 1 to Houston Street.
Take the ACEBDFV to W. 4th Street.

RSVP

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Contact

If you have any trouble or any questions, contact Tony at tony [at] nwcny [dot] com or 631-513-1680.

Sponsor

A very extra-special thanks goes out to ITAC, who is graciously sponsoring our event! ITAC is a fully government-funded nonprofit whose central purpose is to foster small business growth in the New York metro area. Needless to say, we love them! At the event, we’ll briefly review one of ITAC’s friends, the Small Business Innovation Research program, which is a government initiative to connect their research and development efforts with those of small businesses.

See you there!

The Ikea order is in! The furniture is on the way!

Join us this Tuesday afternoon at 5:00 to help us assemble the desks and chairs and help make New Work City a whole lot cozier.

Comment below to let us know if you’re coming! We’ll update with an exact time once we hear back from Ikea.

Cheers! It’s time to build a coworking space!

We’re working on getting furniture into the space this weekend— more on that soon— but for now, we wanted to let you know that all next week you will be welcome to come check out the space and talk to us.

Contact us if you’d like to come check out the space!

Tony

I have a hunger. A hunger for lots and lots of furniture and also for delicious Swedish meatballs.

And the only cure is IKEA!

Join us tonight.

6:10pm. Pier 11.

Free water taxi takes us to Ikea in Red Hook.

We shop.

I put in the order for New Work City’s furniture.

Then we feast on delicious Swedish meatballs!

Are you in? Tweet it up!

Email or DM or @ or comment us to join up!

Want to find out how many people we can fit into this space?

Me too!

Next Saturday, November 1st, we officially take on this space and New Work City will officially have a home!

The event starts around 8:00, we’ll give a talk and a toast around 9:00, and later on we’ll move to a nearby bar.

The address is 200 Varick St, Room 507B (Element N). Come check out the space and rub shoulders with some of the leaders of the coworking movement as they join us to celebrate coworking’s newest space!

We are also seeking sponsorships! Let us know if you’re interested in sponsoring this event; we’d be happy to discuss options.

These are exciting times… stay tuned for so much more!

RSVP and details here!

We’ll be updating this along the way, but while we get ready to fill up the space with desks and chairs and love and awesomeness, we thought we’d share a few things that we either need or would benefit greatly from.

If you can help us find any of the below either by donation or cheap sale, we’d be eternally grateful (seriously, we’ll post our thanks to you somewhere visible)!

- A couch

- A coffee table

- A long table

- A projector (and screen?)

- Rugs

- Possibly some sound-absorbing material

Stay tuned for more and thanks in advance for any leads!

Our community’s been running a happy hour for almost a year now, and TechDrinks VIII promises to be a special one— come join us as we celebrate the birth of New Work City!

TechDrinks is a casual happy hour for our community. There are no presentations, no networking, just good people and good times. We do TechDrinks at Lunasa Bar on First Avenue and St. Mark’s Place, which offers a special happy hour deal of half-price beers and discounted appetizers until 7pm.

RSVP and more details below:

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See you there!

Danny Ocean needed eleven people to rob three casinos. To make an incredible coworking team, we only need ten!

New Work City will have space for ten full-time members and a yet-to-be-determined number of part time members.

If we can get 7-8 full-time members and 3-4 part-time members, we’ll be able to break even. Now is the time!

Below, we’ve listed times to meet up, discuss membership, and show the space. We’ll be available at the times and days below, and can make accommodations for other days and times if needed. Contact us to confirm!

Wednesday, October 15th
12-5:30pm – Open House
5:30pm – Membership Meeting! All are welcome.

Thursday, October 16th
3-6pm – Available upon request

Monday, October 20th
3-5pm – Available upon request

Tuesday, October 21st
3-5pm – Available upon request
5:00pm – TechDrinks VIII – A casual happy hour for friends of the coworking community! Join us to celebrate our new space!

Beyond
We’ll be available later on in the week as well. Contact us!

Location
200 Varick St, Room 507B
Tell security you’re there for Room 507B, Element N (that’s the name of the company hosting us)

1 train to Houston St.
ACEBDFV trains to W. 4th St.