Maybe I just wasn't paying attention before, but I've read a lot about it lately, especially in the context of New York being the next Silicon Valley. I feel like this was especially true when Amazon was considering it as a location for HQ2, but even now that it's not I keep seeing NYT articles about NYC being #2 in tech (ignoring Seattle, for example) and how it's definitely gonna surpass SV at some point because it's "a so much better place to live", has "so many more creative professionals", etc. This article doesn't say it outright, but it kinda alludes to it making NYC the primary example it compares The Bay against.