3 reasons New York City is the best place to start a tech company

In terms of raw dollars, Silicon Valley attracts significantly more, but New York’s share of the pie is actually growing considerably faster. The main driver behind that growth is New York’s successful self-fashioning as the capital of so-called “hyphen tech” — the numerous sub-sections of startups that align themselves with various industries: fintech, fashiontech, mediatech, and so forth.
http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/18/3-reasons-new-york-city-is-the-best-place-to-start-a-tech-company/
http://www.builtinnyc.com/2015/12/10/numbers-behind-new-york-techs-steady-growth