Can’t remember who said ,”The geek shall inherit the earth”, but I’m pretty sure those aren’t the *actual* words that appear in The Good Book.

Things we are sure about: there are vast hordes of geeks living in New York and London. They are geek magnets. Look at the number of bloggers, start-ups and online communities coming out of these two cities. Look at the number of Flickr groups, twitter-ers and enormous facebook networks in both cities. We are WIRED people. It’s like a real Telectroscope. And that’s why we were brimming over with geek excitement to meet John Teti, author of the most excellent blog Geek Out New York.

By day, John is a TV comedy writer (as well as doing stand-up on the side) and he is wry. It comes through in his exploratory enounters with the geekier underbelly of New York: cool things to go and see and do – for example, a review of NYC’s Robot Village shop, or the Untethered exhibition (back in September) that featured objects “deprogrammed of their original function” including a photocopier that takes in the night sky and a “piano that plays the Internet”. Cool. Most of these recommendations come in a series called ‘Do Something This Weekend’.

Geek meets gadget. Joy.

John set his blog up to address the problem that despite New York’s great geek culture, no-one was blogging about it. Food, yes. Geeks… not much. As John put it “New York had to represent.”

We asked John the by now familiar questions…

Metrotwin: What do you love most about New York?

John: From a geek perspective it’s skepticism. Tech has to prove itself in NYC – we don’t get as easily caught up in fads [as they do on the West Coast]

Metrotwin: What’s your favorite place in New York?

John: Robot Village

Metrotwin: What would you recommend to a first-timer geek?

John: The St Mark’s Place area – it’s a really interesting mix of cultures: there’s a Japanese flavor, a comics culture and it doesn’t get any attention.

Hear that geek-people? Get over to St Mark’s, and if you find yourself in need of a robot whilst visiting the city look no further than Robot Village. I hope John will add Robot Village to the site for us. That’s Robot Village. Robot Village. Geek Out!