The NY Tech Meetup held its first gathering of 2010 last night at SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology’s Haft Auditorium and its first afterparty of the year at the Black Door (pictured during the day because the photos which I took inside came out poorly even thought it was well lit); both are located in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. Since I went into the details of the meetup elsewhere, I’ll stick to talking about the afterparty here.
First, it was probably one of the more crowded ones which I have attended; apparently, the Black Door wasn’t expecting the meetup to finish until 9 PM and the early arrivals were stuck in the main part of the bar for the first twenty minutes or so. But, once they realized who all of the name-tag sporting people were, they got a bartender for the back room and let us in there. That eased the crowding a bit and of course, by 10 PM, many had called it a night.
While there, I spotted PressLift’s Soraya Darabi, MoMA’s Julia Kaganskiy, Brainewave Consulting’s Mike Caprio, The Upper WestSide Journal’s Tom Limongello, Martha Stewart Living’s Brenda Dargan, Phoebeworks’s Michael Stickle, Akiva Leeder, Magnify’s Billy Linker, Launchsquad’s Miko Mercer, First Round Capital’s Charlie O’Donnell, and Attention’s Kristin Maverick.
