Every year, Chuck commits to traveling to all62 counties in New York to meet with constituents.
On September 26, 2011, Schumer kicked off his \"Stay in New York\" jobs program at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City. He announced that $500,000 in immediate seed funding had been secured from Canrock Ventures and Jove Equity Partners and it could help launch up to a dozen local companies over the next two years, commercializing early stage technologies developed from Long Island's big five research centers.