Our motto down here at C4 Workspace is “Building a Sustainable Professional Community for San Antonio.” That means we’re building an internal community that is connected to the external community. And that the coworkers in our community will prosper together which will in turn benefit the the San Antonio community at large.

So it looks like New York City is thinking the same thing. In this article from the New York Observer, Mayor Announces $1.5 Million Bailout Plan for City’s Media and Tech Industry, you can read about a variety of things Mayor Bloomberg and company are trying to do to help the city recover from the financial meltdown.

I like this part…

Finding affordable office space among the city’s tech startups has been an ongoing struggle for many entrepreneurs and freelance new media bloggers in New York, too. New Work City on Varick Street, a co-working space for freelancers and startups, offers memberships for $50 to $500 per month. But discounted office space, with enough juice to power computers and servers, is in high demand. So the city is also partnering with economic and business advocacy organization Downtown Alliance to build “hives,” or coworking spaces. The first, called “Hive@55,” will be an affordable co-working space for up to about 50 freelancers at a time in a 5,000 square foot space at 55 Broad Street, the high-tech highrise built to attract more tech companies to the city.

Small and micro business have the same problems all over. One of the biggest challenges freelancers and other home based businesses face is having an affordable, professional, physical presence. And having other professionals to connect with. Which solves the universal problem of isolation. That is what coworking is all about. And it looks like New York is about to tap into that in a serious way.

So…what does NYC got that San Antonio ain’t got? KnowotI’mtalkinbout?

[Thanks to our friends at OpenSpace Coworking in Charlottesville, Virginia for the link. Hi Nikki! Hi Jeff!]