Giving Downtown pub Tom & Jerry's a run for its beer money, the recently refurbished Ace Hotel in lower Midtown has quickly been colonized by Silicon Alley's top tech entrepreneurs and the VCs who
love them -- until it gave them the cold shoulder yesterday, putting up "Get a room" signs. The question remains, however, whether the hotel will embrace such a multitasking, WiFi-monopolizing,
pleated khaki-wearing, female entourage-lacking, geeked-out crowd. With the rise of Facebook and our culture's broader embrace of technology, blogger Charlie O'Donnell argues that techies are now "the
cool kids," and should therefore be embraced by any establishment lucky enough to attract them.
"Wouldn't you like to be the place where the next Google or Facebook was hatched?" he asks.
"That's especially the case since many of the young innovators are also the trendsetters in music, food, clothing, etc." Reaching for a success story, O'Donnell points to the NYC tech community's
embrace of the Shake Shack in Madison Square Park as its "unofficial social hub." Still, we'd like to hear what its proprietor Danny Meyer has to say about that.
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