Silicon Alley

Not to be confused with Silicon Valley, which is located in the San Francisco Bay Area, or Silicon Allee, which is located in Berlin.
The Flatiron District was the cradle of Silicon Alley, now metonymous for the New York metropolitan region's high tech sector, which has since expanded beyond the area.

Silicon Alley is an area of high tech companies centered around southern Manhattan's Flatiron district in New York City.[1] The term was coined in the 1990s during the dot-com boom, alluding to California's Silicon Valley tech center. The term has grown somewhat obsolete since 2003 as New York tech companies spread outside of Manhattan, and New York as a whole is now a top-tier global high technology hub.[2] Silicon Alley, once a metonym for the sphere encompassing the metropolitan region's high technology industries,[3] is no longer a relevant moniker as the city's tech environment has expanded dramatically both in location and in its scope. New York City's current tech sphere encompasses a universal array of applications involving artificial intelligence, the internet, new media, financial technology (fintech) and cryptocurrency, biotechnology, game design, and other fields within information technology that are supported by its entrepreneurship ecosystem and venture capital investments.

  1. ^ Dickey MR, D'Onfro J (24 October 2013). "SA 100 2013: The Coolest People In New York Tech". Business Insider. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
  2. ^ Eisenpress, Cara (April 28, 2023). "New York is closer than ever to beating the Bay Area on tech". Crain Communications. Retrieved June 19, 2023.
  3. ^ Dickey, Megan Rose; D'Onfro, Jillian (October 24, 2013). "SA 100 2013: The Coolest People In New York Tech". Business Insider. Archived from the original on July 22, 2014. Retrieved July 30, 2014.