Spend some time with New York’s new-media elites

New York magazine dropped a reporter into the world of New York tech startups to see what’s going on at the cutting edge. “To spend a couple of months immersed in this new culture of optimism was, mostly, refreshing, if startling,” Doree Shafrir wrote for New York . “Wasn’t New York the place where misanthropes and cynics flocked? Wasn’t New York the place for people who thrived on knowing, and never revealing, the secret phone number for Keith McNally’s restaur…