Is help coming for new startups in NYC?

Patrick McGeehan chronicled in a Times article this week the Bloomberg announcement of a  $45 million fund to assist the 65,000 lost jobs related to the finance industry in nyc.  All dramatically set in a warehouse on 140 Varick.  For  now, the city wants to keep the shrapnel from finance within it’s grasp, and incubate a slew of new companies.  This aligns with some Richard Florida predictions published in The Atlantic this month that say New York City is a likely spot for new growth the occur as it’s concentration of unemployed people and its resources could create (cue the violins) a flourishing petri disk of startups.   There are other city-backed initiatives in the works, including a VC connect website and funding initiatives, see NYC.gov.

Just a few days later, it was announced that the city would be subsidizing tech space incubators (including Sunshine, New Work City and Nutopia).  Here’s some details on the Coalition of Space Providers from their wiki.

-Jennifer