Duly Noted: Can Warby Parker make Google Glass look hip? And can the Big Apple make Silicon Valley look square? (Video)

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Bloomberg

Tappan Zee Bridge in Tarrytown, New York.

Staff New York Business Journal

If one of your career highlights was pulling into the employee parking lot for the first time in that new Beemer or Benz, congratulations, but um, sorry, you haven't arrived yet -- not until you can drop a cool million and show up in one these bad boys. -- Bloomberg video, above

Warby Parker, a New York-based online eyeglasses company, has been approached by Google about making the tech giant's Google Glass augmented-reality glasses more stylish. -- New York Times

New York City has a burgeoning tech scene, but in many ways the city is still considered a less desirable location for tech startups than Silicon Valley. However, there are plenty of reasons to choose New York over Palo Alto, mainly based on notions of what kind of culture a company will be entering here rather than in California. --Michael del Castillo, Upstart Business Journal

What do you picture when you hear of a business "going green"? Is it installing solar panels on a roof? Rigging a cistern to capture rainwater? Using electric vehicles rather than gasoline-powered? Those are all dramatic and sweeping changes, but upgrading seemingly minor aspects of even the smallest businesses can result in future savings, such as switching light bulbs. -- Wall Street Journal

New Jersey's PSE&G said it would spend $3.9 billion over 10 years to gird itself against powerful storms after 2 million of its 2.2 million customers lost power thanks to Hurricane Sandy. The utility estimated that customers' rates would go up only slightly, if at all, due to the investments since energy prices have been falling. -- New York Post

The director of the Tappan Zee Bridge replacement project will be Peter Sanderson, an engineer who is perhaps best known as the manager of the project to rebuild the collapsed I-35 bridge in Minneapolis back in 2007. Sanderson will be a Thruway Authority employee overseeing the Tappan Zee Constructors, the private venture slated to build the new bridge. -- LoHud

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