WFHishNYC: A vector for connection

Over the last year, I’ve been quietly reinventing what the future of WFHishNYC looks like. It started as a simple guide for remote workers so that New Yorkers find the perfect café to set up shop in every neighborhood.

Honestly it was an accountability measure to get myself out of the house. It has become something much bigger. The guide has now been used by hundreds of thousands of readers, becoming a go-to resource for freelancers, creatives, and anyone trying to make work-from-anywhere feel a little less lonely and a lot more local.

But in true New York fashion, it didn’t stop there.

This past year, I took WFHishNYC offline and into the wild. We began experimenting with events that blur the line between work and play—starting with a partnership with fluxo, an app that transforms bars into daytime coworking hubs and we launched post work happy hours for our growing communities.

We then teamed up with The Gansevoort Hotel and Coffee Communications to launch our signature “anti-networking” media event which are essentially a rebellion against the typical schmooze-fest. These gatherings have drawn some of the city’s biggest names in media. They are culture writers, executives, journalists, comms pros, influencers, filmmakers, actors, and artists—the kind of people who shape how New York looks, sounds, and feels.

After spending the last year listening to our community, one thing became increasingly obvious to me. You’re the ones chronicling, building, designing, and redefining what New York means today. You’re the journalists who tell our stories, the designers who make us look good, the organizers who fight to keep this city alive and authentic. In short, you’re the reason we do what we do.

In the year ahead, my focus is to turn WFHishNYC into more of a vector for connection. I want to help those who work from home have the opportunity to be more fufiled—whatever that means to you. For some, that’s new friends or social opportunities. It’s so easy if you’ve been working from home all day, just to continue staying home. To tackle this WFHishNYC is launching a new vertical called Find Your Offline.

For others, it’s finding their professional tribe or their next project partner. For this I am launching a new vertical called Propel Forward which will offer insights on the future of work and resources to help people build more fulfilling professional lives specifically for people who work for themselves — creators, independent journalists, founders, freelancers, etc.

And as we move into 2026, we’re building for you. Through partnerships with creative collectives, social clubs, and member communities that share our ethos, we’re launching new experiences including:

• Intimate panels and salons for subscribers, tackling the themes that define both personal and professional lives like “The Internet Broke How We Date—Can We Fix It?” and “Is AI Really Going to F* Up My Job?”* Ticketed for the public, free for paid subscribers. These will live under both verticals depending on the context of the salon/panel.

• Happy hours and parties that lean into free expression, collaboration, and fun. These include our quarterly “anti-networking” events that have been a real hit and one-off gatherings with partners across the city. This will sit more on the find your offline vertical but will still overlap with the professional sphere sometimes.
  

• Remote work excursions—because if you can work from anywhere, why not make it somewhere beautiful? These could include long weekends in Vermont during ski season or summer escapes to the Hamptons, surrounded by fellow creative types and good company. This will live under the find your offline vertical.

Stay tuned. We’re just getting started!