If you want to read some loud cheerleading for the New York City tech scene, look no further than the Autumn 2006 edition of the City Journal. In this issue, Steven Malanga writes about “Silicon Alley 2.0”. This article, alerted to me by Rafat Ali’s post at PaidContent.org, claims that “now—unexpectedly, even improbably— [Silicon Alley] is reemerging as an economic force in New York.” The article also quotes Kevin Ryan, cofounder of DoubleClick, saying what Fred Wilson said last night, that:

Today New York teems with entrepreneurs. Maybe we’re not as deep as Silicon Valley, but we’re probably ahead of most other places, and that’s the city’s strength.

One item to note about the articles: Neither mentions nextNY.My guess is that won’t be for long.