The exterior of historic restaurant Delmonico’s at 56 Beaver St. in the Financial District. Delmonico’s opened nearly 200 years ago, and has the longest legacy of any fine dining restaurant. ( Photo: India Brown) Commissioner of Small Business Services Promises Bright Future On the muggy morning of June 6, dozens of lower Manhattan small business owners gathered at the landmark restaurant Delmonico’s... News 07 Jun 2024 | 03:59
Council Member Keith Powers referenced his father’s own experience running a small business in an acknowledgement of “how hard mom-and-pop stores work to keep their doors open.” Photo by Stephen Yang / NYPost, courtesy of Keith Powers’ office Council Member Keith Powers Backs Small Biz Break Small businesses were hurting badly during the pandemic — and the way Council Member Keith Powers sees it, they ought to... News 27 Jan 2023 | 07:26
Council Member Gale Brewer celebrated the discovery that a Key Food supermarket would soon fill an UWS vacancy near the intersection of West 88th Street and Broadway, left by the delivery app company Jokr. Photo via Gale Brewer’s Twitter The Problem With Chain Stores On the Upper West Side, vacant storefronts mark the spots where chain stores died. Council Member Gale Brewer can easily... News 05 Jan 2023 | 02:24
Leigh Altshuler opened Sweet Pickle Books during the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo: Abigail Gruskin On The Lower East Side, You Can Trade Books For Pickles When Leigh Altshuler and I first spoke on the phone, it sounded like chaos had erupted over at Sweet Pickle Books, her Lower... News 09 Dec 2022 | 11:21
Designer Cass Lilien in her jewelry studio on the Lower East Side. Photo: James Pothen A Business in Miniature Start big. Dream small. That’s how Cass Lilien made it through the pandemic. The California-born jewelry designer began in... News 24 Jun 2021 | 05:58
Owners Judy Famigletti (left) and Samantha Myers in front of their business on East 85th Street. ( Photo courtesy of Let's Dress Up!) Pivot to Digital At the outset, March was expected to be a spectacular month of business for Let’s Dress Up! — which has been putting on princess... News 13 Apr 2020 | 01:11
Ghost Block on First Avenue On the west side of First Avenue between 65th and 66th streets, an Irish pub, a nail salon, a Chinese-Japanese fusion restaurant,... News 18 Nov 2019 | 05:30
An interested observer. ( Photo: Courtesy Petminded) The Future is Furry The August 21st Pet Tech Meetup at the outdoor beer garden at Andaz, at 75 Wall Street, was experiencing a happy hour of... News 16 Sep 2019 | 02:32
Maria Niculsenku has been working in the store for 22 years. ( Photo: Deborah Fenker) A HEALTHY CHELSEA TREASURE Stores like Health Food & Vitamin City are becoming fewer and farther between. There is no website, no delivery. You can’t... News 29 Aug 2019 | 02:29
Five businesses to close at 1167 Madison Avenue. From left to right: H.L. Purdy Opticians, Chuckies, Ristorante Morini, Premier Cru Wine Merchants, and Prestige Cleaners. Photo: Ema Schumer Farewell to Ristorante Morini Ristorante Morini was the first of five businesses along Madison Avenue between 85th and 86th Streets to close on Friday,... News 21 Aug 2019 | 11:08
Chama Mama at 149 West 14th St. Photo: Diana DuCroz. Let’s Chama! By Diana DuCroz Tamara Chubinidze adores New York City, her home of 23 years, but her native Georgia, the tiny mountainous... News 14 Aug 2019 | 03:08
Chama Mama at 149 W. 14th St. ( Photo: Diana DuCroz) Let's Chama! Tamara Chubinidze adores New York City, her home of 23 years, but her native Georgia, the tiny mountainous country wedged... News 05 Aug 2019 | 02:15
City Council Member Helen Rosenthal, left, Speaker Corey Johnson and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer. ( Photo: Courtesy Office of the City Council Speaker) At last, a city storefront database From the Upper West Side to Astoria to Bed-Stuy, empty storefronts seem to be everywhere you look in New York City. These... Voices 02 Aug 2019 | 02:18
Book Culture owner Chris Doeblin ( Photo: Emily Higginbotham) Neighborhoods need bookstores My community bookstore makes me smarter. And sometimes my community bookseller does too. After reading in this newspaper that... Columns 02 Aug 2019 | 12:19
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