I have a hunger. A hunger for lots and lots of furniture and also for delicious Swedish meatballs.
And the only cure is IKEA!
Join us tonight.
6:10pm. Pier 11.
Free water taxi takes us to Ikea in Red Hook.
We shop.
I put in the order for New Work City’s furniture.
Then we feast on delicious Swedish meatballs!
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Want to find out how many people we can fit into this space?
Me too!
Next Saturday, November 1st, we officially take on this space and New Work City will officially have a home!
The event starts around 8:00, we’ll give a talk and a toast around 9:00, and later on we’ll move to a nearby bar.
The address is 200 Varick St, Room 507B (Element N). Come check out the space and rub shoulders with some of the leaders of the coworking movement as they join us to celebrate coworking’s newest space!
We are also seeking sponsorships! Let us know if you’re interested in sponsoring this event; we’d be happy to discuss options.
These are exciting times… stay tuned for so much more!
1 year agoWe’ll be updating this along the way, but while we get ready to fill up the space with desks and chairs and love and awesomeness, we thought we’d share a few things that we either need or would benefit greatly from.
If you can help us find any of the below either by donation or cheap sale, we’d be eternally grateful (seriously, we’ll post our thanks to you somewhere visible)!
- A couch
- A coffee table
- A long table
- A projector (and screen?)
- Rugs
- Possibly some sound-absorbing material
Stay tuned for more and thanks in advance for any leads!
1 year ago
Our community’s been running a happy hour for almost a year now, and TechDrinks VIII promises to be a special one— come join us as we celebrate the birth of New Work City!
TechDrinks is a casual happy hour for our community. There are no presentations, no networking, just good people and good times. We do TechDrinks at Lunasa Bar on First Avenue and St. Mark’s Place, which offers a special happy hour deal of half-price beers and discounted appetizers until 7pm.
RSVP and more details below:
See you there!
1 year agoDanny Ocean needed eleven people to rob three casinos. To make an incredible coworking team, we only need ten!
New Work City will have space for ten full-time members and a yet-to-be-determined number of part time members.
If we can get 7-8 full-time members and 3-4 part-time members, we’ll be able to break even. Now is the time!
Below, we’ve listed times to meet up, discuss membership, and show the space. We’ll be available at the times and days below, and can make accommodations for other days and times if needed. Contact us to confirm!
Wednesday, October 15th
12-5:30pm - Open House
5:30pm - Membership Meeting! All are welcome.
Thursday, October 16th
3-6pm - Available upon request
Monday, October 20th
3-5pm - Available upon request
Tuesday, October 21st
3-5pm - Available upon request
5:00pm - TechDrinks VIII - A casual happy hour for friends of the coworking community! Join us to celebrate our new space!
Beyond
We’ll be available later on in the week as well. Contact us!
Location
200 Varick St, Room 507B
Tell security you’re there for Room 507B, Element N (that’s the name of the company hosting us)
1 train to Houston St.
ACEBDFV trains to W. 4th St.
We’ve updated our membership agreement; download it here!
If you’re interested in membership, please join us at 5:30 on Wednesday, October 15th, at 200 Varick St (Room 507B, Element^N). We’ll discuss the agreement, and any questions you might have.
If you’re ready to commit to a membership, bring your checkbook and/or a PayPal account - this will be your first chance to sign up for a membership!
Afterwards, I will buy a beer for each person who signs up!
To confirm your attendance, please email us at info [at] nwcny [dot] com.
If you can’t make this event but are interested in signing up for membership, please contact us to set up a time. We will be available several times throughout the week to show the space and discuss membership.
Otherwise, we’ll see you there!
1 year ago
That’s right! After a long year of figuring out the business model, building interest, and looking at space after space, we’ve finally arrived at 200 Varick Street!
We’ll be sharing the space with element^n, who have graciously given us a very flexible deal and a chance to get on our feet.
The building has lots of other young, creative companies in it, and will be a great environment. The entrance, hallways, and elevator have all been recently renovated and look great (there’s even an LCD screen in the elevator!).
The neighborhood is great, with tons of restaurants, cafes, bars, and little parks to explore. Adjacent to 200 Varick is SOB’s, a famous latin dance club. On the other side, Chipotle. The cafe downstairs, attached to the entrance, is Deb’s. It pumps in salsa music nonstop and has wifi.
We’ll be getting the first set of keys this week, and will be able to do tours in the next couple of days, but our official occupation date will be November 1st. There’s a whole lot to be done between now and then, including a trip to Ikea, signing up the first members, and, of course, a launch party.
Stay tuned right here for updates on all that and so much more.
We never would have made it this far without your continued support and excitement— both here in NYC, and around the world. As we move forward, New Work City will continue to be shaped by your needs and your input. It’s here because you want it to be here, and will continue to exist to serve your needs.
The workplace is changing, fast. The twentieth-century office enviroment is on its way out, and a newer, better, greener, happier, more productive workplace is taking its place.
The new workplace is everywhere. It’s in coworking spaces, cafes, parks, at home and elsewhere, and we all get to be a part of it.
This is the new way of doing work.
Welcome to New Work City!
1 year agoOkay, I know we don’t actually have a space yet, but I’d love to see if there’s a way we can help the talented, hard-working folks who’ve been left out in the cold by the recent financial crash.
One of New Work City’s objectives is to help foster entrepreneurial activity in NYC, and the recent job loss may be an opportunity to help people who don’t want to go back to working for a big company get on their feet working for themselves.
So how might we go about helping these folks? We’d love to host an event to gather these people together and help offer them resources for them to get back on their feet, and maybe in a better situation than before.
With bad news like this comes opportunity. For those affected by the crash, this is a chance to re-evaluate career choices and, maybe, take a more independent path.
What do you think? What should be done?We were hoping we’d be signing papers to close the deal this week, but some back-and-forths on communication seems to have pushed it to Monday.
Once it’s confirmed, we’ll be ready to start accepting memebership applications and hope to open in just a couple of weeks beyond that.
Stay tuned!
1 year agoAt our event last week, we handed out initial copies of our Membership Agreement and Terms of Use. The agreement is modeled after those of some other coworking spaces, including Indy Hall and Station C, and should cover everything that needs to be covered.
That said, the Terms of Use could certainly benefit from a trimming. There’s a discussion in the global Coworking Google Group about crafting a cleaner agreement, but for now we have one that we know will work based on the precedents set by existing spaces.
We’ve already incorporated some feedback into our agreement, and would love more feedback as we get closer to opening up!
Check out the current version of the membership agreement here!
What do you think?
1 year ago
