Late last week Senator Kirsten Gillibrand spoke at an Association For Better New York breakfast where she talked about NY’s tech sector. According to PolitickerNY, she spoke on how the technology sector “is key to improving the state’s economy,” citing recent NY tech examples such as Facebook’s new NY office, the Cornell-Technion campus 0n Roosevelt Island and the development of the unused building at 370 Jay Street in Brooklyn as a potential NYU/Polytech applied science center.
She said that building the center would create a hub for science and technology in Brooklyn. She also said she would support tech in NY by pursuing new legislation, investment and tax credits to help technology companies flourish. Although NYU and Polytech’s proposal to uses the building to create a technology university in Brooklyn lost out to Technion and Cornell, Gillibrand said she would like to see the project developed because it would be a “net job generator and a great way to focus our students into growing industries that are creating jobs.”
However, Gillibrand made no mention of the Internet anti-piracy SOPA legislation or the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA), a bill that the Senator co-sponsored.
In response to her (and fellow NY Sen. Chuck Schumer’s support of the bill), the NY Tech Meetup will hosting an “Emergency NY Tech Meetup” tomorrow, January 18 at 12:30 p.m. outside the offices of Senators Gillibrand and Schumer at 780 Third Avenue (at 49th Street). The tech meetup is holding this meeting,as it feels that SOPA/PIPA will “not only severely damage the Internet as a marketplace and platform for entrepreneurship and open innovation, but will also seriously impact the ability of our New York tech community to continue to generate jobs, grow and flourish.”
The link to RSVP to the NY Tech Meetup event can be found below.
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