Why Paul Graham is wrong about New York City

Re:Why Paul Graham is wrong about New York City by j2d2 on Tuesday July 08, 2008 @05:38PM (#240402)

When PG says New York City, I usually take it to mean Manhattan. Brooklyn and Queens are both pretty awesome. If anyone here is from NYC, I'd love to start some real-life gatherings for YC'ers.

Edit: on this topic, I believe reddit started in brooklyn and later relocated. Can anyone confirm?

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Re:Why Paul Graham is wrong about New York City by dpapathanasiou on Tuesday July 08, 2008 @05:43PM (#240409)

If anyone here is from NYC, I'd love to start some real-life gatherings for YC'ers.

I'll second that.

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Re:Why Paul Graham is wrong about New York City by fleaflicker on Tuesday July 08, 2008 @06:00PM (#240426)

Tech meetup is pretty decent

http://newtech.meetup.com/1/

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Re:Why Paul Graham is wrong about New York City by aditya on Tuesday July 08, 2008 @07:40PM (#240523)

Tech meetup is full of entrepreneur-wannabes, FAIL.

Someone I met was throwing around the idea of a language agnostic hacker meetup with a simple programming/logic puzzle as the barrier to entry. Much better idea than tech-meetup!

PS. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=240529 for our new ruby meetup :) Sorry about the self-promotion...

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Re:Why Paul Graham is wrong about New York City by itsandrew on Tuesday July 08, 2008 @08:16PM (#240563)

Agreed. I have been highly disappointed and unsatisfied with most of the tech meetups I have attended. The large majority of attendees I have met at the events are merely non-hackers with an "idea for a website."

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Re:Why Paul Graham is wrong about New York City by tstegart on Tuesday July 08, 2008 @05:44PM (#240412)

I'm down for that as well. It could be the rotating borough meet-up. The Beer Garden in Queens, a cafe in Manhattan, Brooklyn or the Bronx. Um... whatever is in Staten Island.

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Re:Why Paul Graham is wrong about New York City by j2d2 on Tuesday July 08, 2008 @05:47PM (#240415)

You're talking my language!

[email protected]

Whoever is interested, please email me. I'll send out a message with all the email addresses I receive to coordinate. And ya'll can pass it around accordingly.

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Re:Why Paul Graham is wrong about New York City by itsandrew on Tuesday July 08, 2008 @08:21PM (#240568)

Reddit started in Boston. Although, it may have originally been conceived in Charlottesville (back me up here Alexis?). Regardless, not a Brooklyn start-up.

I'm down for NYC YC gatherings.

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Re:Why Paul Graham is wrong about New York City by khafra on Wednesday July 09, 2008 @09:57AM (#241124)

You could use one of the existing ones--since I work in security, I'm most familiar with Citysec, or something like The Last Hope (Jul 18-20 @ The Pennsylvania Hotel).

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Re:Why Paul Graham is wrong about New York City by jawngee on Tuesday July 08, 2008 @05:39PM (#240405)

I'm down.

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Re:Why Paul Graham is wrong about New York City by fortes on Tuesday July 08, 2008 @07:03PM (#240485)

I'm interested as well.

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Re:Why Paul Graham is wrong about New York City by agotterer on Tuesday July 08, 2008 @11:07PM (#240716)

Def down,I'm in the union square area.

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Re:Why Paul Graham is wrong about New York City by dangoldin on Wednesday July 09, 2008 @10:41AM (#241175)

Sounds good to me too.

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Re:Why Paul Graham is wrong about New York City by sebg on Tuesday July 08, 2008 @05:48PM (#240417)

sounds good.

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Re:Why Paul Graham is wrong about New York City by time_management on Tuesday July 08, 2008 @10:08PM (#240654)

I'm up. [email protected]

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