October 23, 2011
Silicon Valley, New York-Style
Universities jockey to build a new tech campus in the city
Paul Cantrell
Roosevelt Island: Cornell and Stanford each want a 10-acre, city-offered site near the southern tip of the island, which lies in the East River and is connected to Manhattan by tram and subway and to Queens by road. A soon-to-close hospital complex on the site will probably be demolished.
New York
New York City hates seeing itself as a second-string town.
Yet for technology entrepreneurs here like Micah Rosenbloom, ever on the lookout for talented software engineers and academic collaborators, the city too often comes up short.
"Recruiting engineers in New York City is really hard," says Mr. Rosenbloom, and it's missing institutions with the mind-set of a place like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As he knows from a company he founded near Boston, postdocs
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