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Coworking in New York City

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MORE THAN A CO-WORKING SPACE, 4 Cats specialises in creative industry.

Our members are able to meet different professionals in this industry which boosts them to execute success projects through collaboration with one another.

Aiming at members' business, suggestions are given by our experienced advisors on their start-up business operation as well as account servicing skills.

Our network is widely connected to different industries which benefits catchers, our members, to build actual business between entrepreneurs and them. 

4 Cats has a UNIQUE co-business scheme. Through the strategic alliance with PACO Communications,

his enormous network and experience allows us to provide opportunities for selected outstanding members to achieve massive projects.

It shifts us from a co-working space to a co-business community. 

 

         

     The front door                                                                                                         The working area

 

4 Cats can also be elaborated into 4 Cs:

     Co-learn: learn from experienced entrepreneurs and catchers by  mutual communication. 

     Co-create:  together with different professionals to complete a massive project.

     Co-business: collaborate with one another as well as external parties to achieve actual successful trade.

     Co-victory: by co-working, we lead catchers, entrepreneur, users to a victory.

 

Key features:

* Unique alliance which helps catchers to achieve massive projects

* Probably the 1st co-working space with in-house homemade coffee

* Work life balance - a shower room provided

* Networking - regular events and seminars in various fields

* Mentorship

 

    

     The event venue                                                                                                        4 Cats Pastry

 

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Visit us: Unit 1101, Eastern Centre, 1065 Kings Road, Quarry Bay

Reception hour: 9:30am-6:30pm

Work space opening hour: 9:30am-9:30pm

E-mail: [email protected]

Tel: 2110-6909

Depending on how you measure it, New York CIty may be home to more coworking spaces than anywhere else in the world. It was recorded as having over 100 spaces in it in 2014, with many more opening and expanding since then. 


History

In a city where space has always come at a premium, New Yorkers have for a long time been finding creative ways to share. In the 1990s, "plug & play" centers gave people a way to get together and share internet connections when connectivity was hard to come by. Early incarnations of the coworking model appeared in the 2000s, as shared workspaces of various kinds experimented with more open and social models.

In 2006, Amit Gupta and Luke Crawford started Jelly, which was a simple gathering that happened on a weekly or biweekly basis at their loft apartment in midtown. Around the same time, Noel Hidalgo returned home to New York from San Francisco, having met with the original coworking organizers there and freshly inspired to bring the modern coworking concept to New York. He worked with Beka Economopoulos and others to open New York's first coworking space as part of an activist artist space in Williamsburg called The Change You Want to See.

In 2007, Tony Bacigalupo visited Jelly for the first time, meeting Noel and Amit and others, and became enamored with the idea of coworking. He proceeded to get involved in not just Jelly, but another new initiative called Cooper Bricolage. Sanford Dickert, an active organizer in the NY technology scene at the time, found a restaurant called Cafe Fuego, whose owners were open to the idea of hosting workers during the daytime when business was slow. Having negotiated an arrangement with them, Sanford set out to find people to help lead the effort. Tony stepped into the role. 

In September 2007, Cooper Bricolage opened its doors to a grand reception. In the subsequent year and a half, the community would move from Cafe Fuego to Gramstand, which it would call home until it completed its transition to a full-time coworking space, called New York City, in November 2008.

Along the way, more new coworking communities were forming around the city, and existing workspace-sharing businesses were starting to take notice. 

Local alliances 

To date, New York City does not have a formally organized regional coworking alliance. It is, however, home to a number of Meetup groups and software platforms that help people find spaces. After closing its doors in 2015, New Work City formed a loose alliance with like-minded spaces in New York. 

Meetup groups

New York City is home to the headquarters of Meetup.com and a wide variety of coworking-related Meetup groups.

Directories

With such a wide variety of communities in New York, there are unsurprisingly many ways to connect with them.

Press

As a center of media, New York has been no stranger to press stories about coworking. Among them: