Kirsten Gillibrand On New York’s ‘New Digital Future’
At the ABNY breakfast this morning, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand said growing New York’s technology sector is key to improving the state’s economy. She said she hopes to help high tech companies flourish in New York by pursuing new legislation, investment and tax credits, and by supporting the push for an NYU and Polytech applied sciences campus in Brooklyn.
“We are becoming the new technological powerhouse, a viable East Coast sister to Silicon Valley,” Senator Gillibrand said.
Senator Gillibrand pointed to Facebook’s recent Manhattan expansion, the planned Cornell-Technion campus on Roosevelt Island and the Silicon Alley darlings Gilt Groupe, Tumblr and Foursquare as proof there has been a great deal of progress in New York’s high-tech sector of late.
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