It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

I work in a big loft space down in Soho. I guess it's a loft because we don't really have walls, there's no place for all the wires, and you can see clearly from one end of the room to the next. That pretty much sounds like what I picture as the typical "loft" in New York -- the loft that Tom Hanks rents in "Big".

Apparently, a lot of the buildings in the area have similar layouts, and well, you know how us Internet types love offices with no walls and other associated crap that gets in the way of our "Internetting".

What's my point here? I'm getting to it.

Anyway, with the renewal of the online industry in New York, this area of the city is fast filling up with, you guessed it, Internet companies. You can read about it here (and no, I'm not bitter that we weren't mentioned in this article...much) if you are interested. This part of the city is starting to look and feel like Chelsea back when I interned at Vault. In a related story, some of my friends were able to parlay their summer internships into something substantive like a full-time job. All I got was a t-shirt that said "I interned during the Bubble and all I got was this lousy t-shirt". Or something like that.

So it was with great excitement that I read that the folks from Gawker moved to the neighborhood! Guys in our office love Deadspin. The ladies love Gawker. I love both.

I'm not really sure what excites me about this. Maybe Gawker will come to our next Toast and I can convince them to put a picture of me dressed in my finest business casual duds in "Blue States Lose".