https://medium.com/@nicolas.metallo/why-new-york-city-will-lead-the-smart-building-revolution-fcab3b4a00a5

With one of the boldest emission reductions roadmaps in the US amidst a dangerously old public infrastructure, the most highly-funded region in the world has everything at hand to be the world leader around Urban Tech.

NEW YORK CITY — The Big Apple has many things going on for itself. Not only does it have very ambitious legislation to reduce greenhouse emissions by at least 80% by 2050 (Source) and mandate NYC’s 14,500 least efficient buildings to accelerate and deepen major efficiency upgrades, but it also has agencies such as NYSERDA that provide financing to support retrofits (i.e. RetrofitNY) and enact steep non-compliance penalties. These public efforts in legislation are also matched with many initiatives to bring back high-quality jobs to NYC, such as the 100,000 good-paying jobs in 10 years plan (Source).