“When you’re in a home, your networking opportunities are limited,” Yerushalmi says. “How much feedback and advice will you get?”

Sunshine Co-Founder Cheni Yerushalmi promotes the idea of open space and fostering a community within the group, through events, team sports and even a vacation home in Vermont used as a corporate getaway.To help jumpstart this initiative, the city’s Economic Development Corp. provided a $250,000 grant. Overall the Bronx incubator is the sixth to launch in the City since September 2008.“With 1 million residents, we saw that as an opportunity,” Mr. Yerushalmi said. “The grant we received allowed us to create a dynamic, unbeatable price that will show the potential of the Bronx.

I asked Cheni what he thought about the connection between entrepreneurship and individual freedom. He thought that the two concepts were inseparable in that entrepreneurs have more personal control over their work/life balance and daily choices than anyone else. Interestingly, these same people are usually in far more danger of work-obsession than non-entrepreneurs. I suppose it is because they are so passionately connected to their work; they own it!

#3: Sunshine Suites: We said “renting resources” and this is the best office rental space in town. They have fabulous locations all over the city fully equipped with internet, fax, printing, trendy jazz music, trendy bathrooms, fish pond in the foyer and pricing that can fit every entrepreneur, writer, actor, real estate broker, any other gig that requires an affordable office space on a month-to-month lease.  That was a mouthful. I have worked here off and on for three years. God bless Sunshine Suites.

WHY THEY CAME To celebrate Mr. Call’s new work space at Sunshine Suites at Astor Place, a communal office he shares with people from several different fields. “Overflow workers from GQ, people in finance, marketing, accounting,” he said, beaming. “I like that it’s affordable — you share all the costs: overhead, printers, I.T., all of that.”