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(photo credit: coworking brooklyn)

Congrats to Coworking Brooklyn, Jelly NYC, 3rdward, and cafeBricolage for getting this story in the NY Post today.

This is great news for folks interested in the coworking movement, coworking spaces, and parallel projects such as cafeBricoalge and Jelly: the more people who are aware of these options and these types of working conditions, the more demand will exist and the more resources we can throw at these projects.

Here are a few key quotes from the article:

After a little research, Winard found Coworking Brooklyn, a group that meets in a Williamsburg gallery and events space called The Change You Want To See. He hit it off with the other workers, and found he could get more done there than at home. He started coming in two days a week; then after a month, his employer agreed to pay the $200 monthly fee so he could work at Coworking Brooklyn full-time.

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The Coworking New York City wiki links to three spaces that are up and running - Coworking Brooklyn and 3rdward in Williamsburg and Jelly in Manhattan - and several more that are in the works. Among the latter is Café Bricolage, a café-cum-coworking space which will serve as an “incubator for start-ups.” While it’s not up and running yet, it already has its own Web site, blog, and Google group, where interested parties are debating the best ways to get the space off the ground.

For everyone at Web2Expo (or if you know anyone there), we would like to invite you to a special session on Wednesday, from 5:00 - 5:50pm in the “Zeta” room of Web2Open, located on the third (3rd) floor of the Moscone West Conference Center.

The event, called Silicon Alley 2.0: State of The City, will be part presentation, part roundtable, and our beloved New York City’ s future as an entrepreneurial hub will be at the center of conversation.

The goal is to bring New Yorkers together, here in Silicon Alley, out of our collective comfort zone, and talk shop. What drives innovation in the Big Apple? What are our challenges? What exciting projects are occurring right under our noses to foster innovation?

This is a time to learn and share about the world’s media, financial, diplomatic, artistic, civic, and, increasingly, technological center.

We’re excited to offer this free and open opportunity for folks to gather on such a relevant and pressing issue, and we look forward to seeing you at our Web2Open session.

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Today, NYC-based entrepreneur/celeb Darren Herman unveiled his plans to put a coworking space in the ultra-cheap and accessible Financial District. He has good company in those parts, as he’s joining the NYSIA’s Incubator and projecting competitive rates.

To cut to the chase, questions have been raised about whether this is in competition with cafeBricolage… and I wanted to emphatically say “hell no! We’re excited!”

Also, we’re hoping our coworking movement loyalist friends welcome Darren’s move with equally open arms.

We see Darren’s move as one which will ultimately stimulate the NYC new-media/start-up/entrepreneurial community, and we unreservedly believe that his vision for a coworking-only space is an important one in this equation.

Moving forward we’re glad to have another community member standing up for small start-ups, and we look forward to seeing the results! (We also look forward to seeing what he ultimately calls he space, with DarrenCamp and DarrenSalon already is the books, perhaps we can count on another entity bearing his mark.)