Tuesday, July 22, 2025

July 22, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 9 minutes

Tuesday, July 22, 2025 

In today’s digest, solar projects, NYC’s gladiator scene, and big tech talent in the Big Apple. 🍎

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  • NYC’s first community-led and cooperatively owned solar project, Sunset Park Solar, has been installed in Sunset Park. 😎 (Brooklyn Paper)

    • Around 200 Sunset Park families and businesses will benefit from the project, gaining access to clean and reliable electricity, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and lowering energy bills by 20%. 

    • Revenue from the 45,000-square-foot installation will go into a community wealth fund to support additional solar projects.

  • It’s Restaurant Week somewhere. And as of yesterday, that somewhere is right here in the Big Apple! NYC Restaurant Week kicked off yesterday and will actually run longer than a week — till August 17. You can snag deals from over 600 restaurants throughout the five boroughs. 😋 (Patch)

    • Check out all the participating restaurants here.

  • Mayor Eric Adams announced today a new Drone Operations Committee to help spur innovation and coordinate drone operations across city agencies. 🛸 (Harlem World Magazine)

    • The effort expands on the city’s existing drone programs, which include deploying drones as first responders and monitoring city beaches for sharks and distressed swimmers.


In other reading:

  • Free classic movies in iconic Brooklyn parks: What’s showing (PIX11)

  • Harlem Week 2025: A celebration of culture, legacy, and community (Post News Group)

  • NYC's gladiatorial combat scene is growing, so I took a swing at it (Gothamist)

One of NYC’s strengths is its ability to attract and retain tech talent. (And one of our priorities for the 2025 mayoral election is to keep this momentum going through housing and livability investments!) But how do we stack up on the national stage?

What’s 🆕: A report from LinkedIn shows NYC boasts one of the largest pools of entry-level tech talent in the nation — thanks not just to its scale, but to the depth and diversity of both its technical workforce, and multi-industry ecosystem.

  • 🗽 NYC has the second-highest share of tech talent in entry-level roles, and by gender, is a fraction of a percentage behind Boston.

  • 📈 Entry-level tech talent job postings were up 9.7% last month from 2024.

Yes, but:

  • The LinkedIn hiring rate for tech talent in NYC decreased by 4.3% year-over-year in June for entry-level roles and by 3% for non-entry-level roles.

  • Non-entry job postings slid 30.1%.

📊 Hiring data by the numbers: NYC’s superpower lies in its diversified economy, which hosts a mix of top employers across several industries.

  • The top employers of NYC tech talent are Google (1.1%), Bloomberg (0.9%), Amazon (0.8%), JPMorganChase (0.8%), and Meta (.6%) (all Tech:NYC members!).

  • The fastest-growing occupations advertised are computer engineering, cybersecurity consultant, and applied scientist.

  • The fastest-growing skills are “system configuration,” “easily adaptable,” and “Revit.”

🧑‍💻 There are resources that help tech talent find jobs in the sector, like, cough cough, the Tech:NYC Jobs Board:

🔌 Relevant plug: Tech:NYC is hiring! 

  • We’re looking for a Program Manager to support our new civic fellowship for senior tech leaders, launching later this year, and a Membership Manager to play a central role in strengthening and scaling our fast-growing community of tech companies. 

  • Learn more and apply here.

In other reading:

  • Here's what the biggest names in tech and business think AI means for white-collar jobs (Business Insider)

  • Work time reduction via a four-day workweek finds improvements in workers’ well-being (Nature)

  • Are office dress codes still a thing? Gen Z doesn’t think so (Fast Company)

  • Leadstory, an NYC-based news streaming and aggregation platform, raised $2.8 million in seed funding. Checker Media led the round and was joined by American Public Media Group’s Horizon Fund and existing investors.

  • Radical AI, an NYC-based developer of autonomous labs for materials R&D, raised $55 million in a seed round. RTX Ventures led the round and was joined by Nvidia, Alleycorp, and others.

  • Xelix, an NYC-based developer of AI software in the accounts payable space, raised $160 million in Series B funding. Insight Partners led the round and was joined by Passion Capital and LocalGlobe.

  • July 23: Digital Art Salon, a monthly meetup for artists, builders, and creative technologists working across AI, AR, generative systems, and digital debris. Register here.

  • July 24: Growth Marketing Playbook: Social, Content & Distribution, a workshop for early-stage founders looking to scale distribution, diving into tactical frameworks for building distribution engines, going viral, and leveraging partnerships. Register here.

  • July 24: Product Builders in Health and Wellness Tech Happy Hour, a chance to connect with builders and major players in healthcare and wellness tech and discuss your ideas and projects. Register here.

  • July 31: Healthcare x AI Agents Hack & Learn, ​a hands-on sprint to build safer, smarter AI agents for healthcare. Register here.

  • August 5: Fashion & Fashion-tech Mixer, where you can connect with fashion-tech innovators and disruptors. Register here.

  • August 7: August Founder Breakfast, a private breakfast for a curated group of pre-seed to series A founders. Register here.

  • August 8: Deep Dive Into LLMs Watch Party, an all-day watch party and discussion of Andrej Karpathy’s video on LLMs. Register here.

  • September 10: NYC Summit, Primary’s annual invite-only conference, bringing together 2,000 top founders, VCs, and LPs. This year’s speakers include Larry Fitzgerald (Arizona Cardinals), David Karp (Tumblr), Toyin Ajayi (Cityblock Health), Lina Khan (FTC), Kareem Amin (Clay), and more. Apply to attend here.

  • September 23: Deep Tech Forum + Startup Showcase in NYC, bringing together deep tech startups from across the globe alongside corporate innovation leaders, investors, and ecosystem partners, for a full day of mainstage sessions and startup exhibitions. Register with promo code TECHNYC here.

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