All Day Buffet is proud to present the NEWYork100, which highlights 100 of the most innovative, rule- breaking, model-changing ideas to come out of the Big Apple.

Call it social innovation, intelligent capitalism, idealistic enterprise: They’re curating and highlighting the most creative, resourceful, and innovative people, companies and movements in New York. All rebuilding the city better and brighter and recreating the way we understand the world.

Spend some time reviewing the links… some are really interesting and outstanding:

ART & DESIGN

1. Jen Bekman / 20×200: Curator and gallerist pioneers the newest way to bring art to everyone, offering ridiculously affordable prints exclusively online. New photography and fine art editions introduced weekly.
2. VII Photography: Nine member agency founded in 2001 specialising in conflict photography including James Natchwe who’s work on XDR-TB came to fruition with the TED Prize.
3. Trust Art: A social platform that is commissioning ten public artworks over the next year. People are invited to become shareholders with $1, share with interested friends, and renew culture.
4. The Rhizome $50,000 web page: Innovative fundraising execution for the New Museum’s Rhizome. 1,000,000 pixels of webspace at 5 cents a piece. Leave your mark. .
5. Making Policy Public: Brooklyn-based nonprofit organization that uses art and visual culture to increase the quality of public participation in urban planning and community design.
6. Slideluck Potshow: Non-profit organization devoted to building and strengthening community around food and art.
7. Edina Tokodi: Makes living, breathing public art out of moss, grass, and other natural elements
8. Factory Fresh: Ali and Ad have shown the art of themselves and the art of fellow artist they met in the global street art scene and in the NYC Community.
9. The Corners Project: A tribute to New York’s people: the amazing diversity of the faces, and the stories they tell have always been the most fascinating things about this city to me.
10. Sheepless Co: Creative design practice founded by Scott Ballum, a designer and author in Brooklyn, NY, dedicated to providing deliberate, considered solutions in design and promotion for socially responsible small businesses and cultural organizations.
11. Andrew W.K. article: “Rather than thinking, I lost my job because of the economy, consider: “did I really want this job? Is there something deep down inside of me that wanted a change and has manifested this, using the economy as an excuse?”"
12. Uhuru: Small design + build furniture company dedicated to sustainability and creating timeless designs.
13. Design 21: Social Design Network: Inspires social activism through design. They connect people who want to explore ways design can positively impact their many worlds, and those who want to create change here, now.
14. Workshop: “Do good design for good people. Where design and social responsibility meet.”
    
    

    BUSINESS

15. Paperless Post: Founded in 2008 by a brother and sister from New York City. They are dedicated to bringing aesthetic elegance to internet correspondence.
16. Start@Spark: Provides seed financing in promising early stage companies in the conflux of media, technology, and entertainment.
17. Ben Kaufman: Founder of Mophie, Kluster, and now Quirky, no one tries and fails faster than this guy. The best part–he keeps on keepin’ on.
18. NYC Seed: For all those trying to make it in this town, NYC Seed funds seed-stage technology entrepreneurs in New York City.
19. OZOLab: Leading innovation lab and business incubator that exists to identify, create, and market a new breed of sustainable businesses with mass consumer appeal.
20. New York’s New Entrepreneurship Support: 11 Initiatives to support NYC’s financial services sector and encourage entrepreneurship
21. VerTerra: Sustainable disposable dinnerware made from crushed fallen leaves
22. Green Depot Live Store: Beautiful, diverse and extremely accessible, their primary goal is to facilitate green living and building in communities so that it is easy, affordable and gratifying.
23. The Sustainable Business Network NYC: A local chapter of BALLE, unites local business owners committed to operating responsible businesses–a united voice for a new economy in New York City.
24. Digital Divide Data: Provides disadvantaged youth opportunity by educating and training them to deliver world-class, competitively priced IT services to global clients and acquire the essential business skills that help them break the cycle of poverty.
25. Sustainable NYC: Eco-friendly everyday products for women, men, babies and pets in a 1,300 sq ft storefront at Avenue A/ 9th Street in the East Village built from 300 year-old reclaimed lumber from NYC buildings.
26. New York City Investment Fund: Private fund with a civic mission that mobilizes the city’s financial and business leaders to help build a stronger and more diversified local economy by identifying and supporting New York City’s most promising entrepreneurs in both the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors.
27. Mint Cars: On Demand access to vehicles 24/7 as little as an our and as much as several days offers alternative to car ownership, 24 HR Rental Cars, Taxi’s and Public Transportation.
28. Noah Brier: Listed as one of the most creative people by Fast Company. Founder of Likemind and Brand Tags.
    
    

CULTURE

29. The Highline: Friends of the High Line works to build and maintain an extraordinary public park on the High Line. We seek to preserve the entire historic structure, transforming an essential piece of New York’s industrial past.
30. The Secret Society for Creative Philanthropy: Project consisted of giving ten friends one hundred dollars and inviting them to, in turn, give that money away. Then the whole motley crew gathered together at a bar, imbibed, and told the stories of their forays into guerilla giving.
31. Eco-Compassion: Socially minded pop-up shop that donates percentage of all sales to plant trees (watch out for samples!)
32. Mottainainy: Meaning “what a waste”, this Brooklyn borough collection is for those who understand the importance of environmental stewardship and whose modern lifestyle demands innovative creations.
33. Brooklyn Bowl: The stage is made from recycled truck tires, all the wood is either salvaged or sustainably harvested, and many other green details will make this the first LEED-certified bowling alley in the country.
34. Cinereach: Created by a group of young filmmakers, philanthropists and entrepreneurs with the goal of championing socially relevant films.
35. Littlefield: Eco-friendly, 300+ capacity space made punkish-chic with monthly rotating local art exhibits, Littlefield’s the dream of a former environmental engineer out to prove that rock and roll is not, in fact, noise pollution.
36. MEET: A two-story, 2,500 square-foot, highly stylized open loft in the Soho district of New York City. Fully engineered for creative thought to flourish.
37. Baggu Bags: BAGGU is a small team of designers, and entrepreneurs, founded on the principle that good design should be functional, beautiful and affordable. Our goal is to make basic products that fill lots of uses, not just one, so you can own less stuff.
38. Collective Hardware: Hard-to-define, hard-to-leave, multi-faceted Bowery building and art collective that includes a gallery space,shop, cafe/bar, recording studios, special effects, hair stylist, you name it on the rest.
39. Lucid NYC: Bringing people together to make the world a better place. Whether online or off, we believe an enlightened world will be forged by the content of our conversation.
40. Janera’s World: Online/offline community for global nomads
41. 92nd Street Tribeca: The newly opened venue in Tribeca has become home to the social socialite scene and its quality of talks (from social media to socially mined) one thing we like to see expanding.
42. Burda Style: Open Source Sewing
43. Summer Rayne Oakes: Pushes sustainability issues through fashion and media, a position which earned her the name of “The Eco-Model”.
44. The Four Hundred: Unique sales and press showroom where each designer is carefully selected based on their innovation in design and fashion-forward aesthetic and produce their collections according to rigorous sustainability standards.
45. Blades Natural Beauty: Committed to making women look their best, without sacrificing personal well-being.
46. The Uniform Project: One dress, 365 days, The Uniform Project is a year-long fundraiser for the Akanksha Foundation to fund uniforms and other educational expenses for slum children in India.
47. World Science Festival: The massive festival includes a World Science Summit, a meeting of high-level participants from the worlds of science, politics, administration, and business not to mention family festivities, panels and multimedia presentations.
48. Bike Film Fest: Brings together all aspects of bicycling together to advocate its ability to transport us in many ways. Ultimately the Fest is about having a good time.
49. Sputnik Observatory: Organization that documents contemporary culture through intimate video interviews with hundreds of leading thinkers in the arts, sciences and technology, covering a wide range of topics.
50. Fifty People One Question Brooklyn: “Go to a place. Ask fifty people the same question. Film their responses.”
    
    
    

    ENVIRONMENT

51. Alive Structures: New York City based, woman owned business that does everything from education to greenroof installation, to planterboxes available at Home Depot.
52. Tap’d NY: Offers an honest and local alternative to thirsty New Yorkers, giving them a smarter choice: to drink their own (award winning) water.
53. Green Home NYC: Aims to be a hub of resources for small building owners, to promote the understanding of green building issues, and to connect building owners with local green building service and materials providers.
54. Scrapkins: A group of creatures that live in a recycling center and build their world out of the things people throw away. Their mission –to foster eco-awareness, promote recycling and encourage kids to use their imagination.
55. Solar 2: The First Carbon-Neutral, Net-Zero Energy Building in New York City pioneered by Solar 1 and designed by Kiss + Cathcart and.
56. Majora Carter Group: McArthur Genius and homegrown hero Majora Carter has started her own green-economic development consulting firm.
57. IceStone: Made from 100% recycled glass that is mixed with cement to create a highly durable, aesthetically beautiful and green concrete surface.
58. Diana Balmori Assoc: Urban Landscaping development firm which authored, Land and Natural Development (LAND) Code: Guidelines for Sustainable Land Development
59. Vote Solar: Policy Innovation Group, newly moved to NYC which tries to bring solar energy to the mainstream.
60. FTL Solar: Flexible Erectable Solar Structures
61. Council on the Environment of New York City: Greens our neighborhoods, creates the environmental leaders of the future, promotes waste prevention and recycling, and runs the largest farmers market program in the country.
62. Wearable Collections: Provides a no cost, turn-key solution to recycling clothing within residential buildings in NYC.
    
    

FOOD

63. Vertical Farm: Proposal to conduct large-scale agriculture in urban high-rises or “farmscrapers”.
64. Farms Reach: Web platform for local food logistics. Using FarmsReach, buyers can source local, sustainable food. Producers can show what’s available and coordinate deliveries and orders.
65. Anna Blythe Lappe: National bestselling author who’s respected for her work on sustainability, food politics, globalization, and social change. She’s been named one of TIME’s “Eco-Who’s Who”.
66. Habanna Outpost: Not only delicious, this eco-eatery’s been leading the way in presenting sustainability to the public in a way that’s truly fun.
67. Queens Farm: In addition to the wide range of activities at this incredible 47 acre farm within NYC, there are occasional supper clubs that hold dinners in the 1741 farmhouse.
68. Basis Foods: A mission-driven food company committed to transparent sourcing and a localized food supply.
69. Dan Barber: Executive Chef and Co-Owner Blue Hill Farms. Advocate, educator, chef and one of 2009 “Time 100″ world’s most influential people.
70. Interrupcion: Awesome organization that will change the food supply chain in Argentina.
71. Eagle Street Rooftop Farm: Putting the Green back in Greenpoint, the huge farm grows over an abandoned Bagle factory and will be selling their vegetables to several local restaurants, including Marlow & Sons and Diner.
72. Brooklyn Food Conference: Featuring the biggest names in local food, to the localest of farms and attendted by thousands, this conference was packed with flavor.
    
    

NON-PROFIT

73. Ian Marvy: Co-founder and director of Added Value which has trained more than 30 young people, founded the Red Hook Farmers’ Market and helped convert vacant, dilapidated lots into a half acre of productive farm land.
74. Open Society Institute: George Soros’ organization which works to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens.
75. Charity Water: One billion people on the planet don’t have access to clean drinking water. That’s one in six of us. charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations. 100% of public donations directly fund water projects.
76. Common Ground: Since converting the infamous Times Square Hotel in midtown, CGC has developed and currently manages seven buildings that house over 1,700 people in permanent and temporary residences in Manhattan. They’re committed to an additional 3,000 units over the next 10 years.
77. Stoked Mentoring: Mentors inner city kids in the NYC and LA area through snowboarding, skateboarding and surfing.
78. Goods for Good: Matches excess goods from the United States with the needs of vulnerable children in the developing world.
79. (TEP) Charter School: TEP teachers earn a $125,000 salary, plus an annual bonus of up to $25,000.
    
    

SOCIAL INNOVATION

80. If We Ran The World: An extremely simple web platform designed to turn intentions into action by breaking any answer to the question, ‘If you ran the world, what would you do?’ down into Micro-Actions.
81. NYU Reynolds Program: NYU’s new program in Social Entrepreneurship designed to attract, encourage and train a new generation of leaders in public service.
82. Echoing Green: Provides seed funding and support to social entrepreneurs with bold ideas. Their launches include Teach for America and the Freelancer’s Union.
83. StartingBloc: StartingBloc educates, empowers and connects emerging leaders to drive positive social change across sectors.
84. Pop!Tech Social Innovation Incubator: Facilitates interdisciplinary, world-changing projects that use new tools and embody new approaches to significant global challenges.
85. GreenSpaces: Brings together leading green entrepreneurs by offering
    affordable work space, shared resources and a community to launch their businesse
86. Evolver: New social network for conscious collaboration.
87. US-Japan Social Innovator’s Network: A multidisciplinary network of emerging and established innovative leaders committed to creating a better world spearheaded by the Japana Society in New York.
88. Spark Seed: Nonprofit organization that invests in the top social entrepreneurs of tomorrow as they lead social ventures today. We provide guidance, funding, and tools to college students who will change the world.
89. SHE: Uses market based tactics to address females’ lack of access to affordable, quality, eco-friendly, sanitary products and services for menstruation.
90. Hot Bread Kitchen: Social-purpose bakery in New York City founded by Jessamyn Waldman, employs local, immigrant women who bake traditional recipes.
91. Pure Project: Project that uses creativity and innovation to promote sustainable solutions that advance a common good in the world.

TECHNOLOGY

92. DIY City: What would your city look like. One of the coolest projects coming out of DIY city is open 311
93. The Open Planning Project: Empowers civil society through software, media and smart urban policy (spearheads of such initiatives as Liveable Streets and Uncivilservant.org)
94. Mobileactive.org: Community of people and organizations using 3.5 billion mobile phones to provide unprecedented opportunities for organizing, communications, and service and information delivery.
95. Bre Pettis: Founder of NYCResistor, a hacker collective in Brooklyn and the host of The History Channel’s History Hackers show. He’s created new media for Etsy.com, hosted Make: Magazine’s Weekend Projects podcast, and has been a schoolteacher, artist, and puppeteer.
96. Kickstarter: Funding platform for artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, inventors, explorers.
97. Behance: Organizes the creative world to make their ideas happen.
98. Hello Health: “We’re a revolutionary new experience with your neighborhood doctor. We mix office and online visits to give you personal attention when and how you want it.”
99. Foursquare: Helping people to find new ways to explore New York City.
100. Drop.io: Easy to use, online collaboration and file sharing service that provides users with a simple, real time and private way to chat and share images, video, audio, documents and other digital content