Silicon Alley rapid halt during the early 2000s recession. During this economic contraction, many internet companies in Silicon Alley folded. The recession also affected publications that covered the sector. After the dot-com bust, the "Silicon Alley Reporter" was rebranded as "Venture Reporter", in September 2001, and sold to Dow Jones. Self-financed AlleyCat News ceased publication in October 2001. A couple of years after the dot-com bust, Silicon Alley began making its comeback with the help of NY Tech Meetup, and NextNY. On December 19, 2011, then Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced his choice of Cornell University and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology to
The Concentration City The Concentration City "The Concentration City" is a dystopian short story by British author J. G. Ballard, first published, under the title "Build-Up", in "New Worlds" volume 19 number 55 in January 1957. It was reprinted in the collections "Billennium" and "Chronopolis" and later, under its revised title, in "The Disaster Area" and "". "The Concentration City" is set in a "city" encompassing everything in known existence to its inhabitants. The districts comprise endless streets and buildings and seemingly infinitely high and low levels, or floors, with few trees and little wildlife. Cubic space is in shortage and expensive. High