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Bloomberg Vs. City Council Over Unemployment Hire Bill

As if the unemployed needed another political showdown in their honor after the fiscal cliff debacle. Yesterday, City Council approved a bill that would bar an employer from hiring you simply because you're unemployed (ironic, given that the unemployed are at the interview for a reason: because the ... More >>

Even the Banks are Paying a Penalty for Sandy

Winter is coming

Battle of Brooklyn

Titus Andronicus supports Local Business

Brooklyn Vintage Crawl

The NYC Restaurant Industry Gets to Work, No Matter What

Here's what's going on right now: Cooks are wearing construction helmets fitted with lights to work in the dark, or cooking by flashlight to serve free food. Restaurants without power are using barbecues to shift service to the streets, while mobile vendors park in the darkest shadows they can find, ... More >>

The Power of Negative Thinking

For Titus Andronicus's Patrick Stickles, everything is meaning less

Hispanic Commerce Group Continues to Pressure City Council and Speaker Quinn With Rally Outside City Hall

Representatives from the New York State Coalition of Hispanic Chambers of Commerce voiced their outrage on the steps of City Hall yesterday over a proposed bill that would lower procurement goals for Hispanic-owned businesses bidding for city work. Earlier this month, the city announced revisions ... More >>

Hispanic Business Community Fuming Over Christine Quinn's Support of New Bill

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn's support of a revised law aimed at helping women and minority-owned businesses secure contracts with city agencies could cost her Hispanic votes in the upcoming 2013 mayoral election. "[Christine] Quinn is going to lose the Hispanic vote because we're going to ... More >>

Brand It, Post It, Sell It: How Millennials Are Reshaping Business As We Know It

Laura Murray, an FIT student by day and live music photographer by night, has a fascination with exposure: "Being able to show people things that are going on all over the world sounds incredible." She admits on her website that she has a "slight case of wanderlust" and her dream job would be a band ... More >>

New York Republicans Continue To Whine About Barack Obama Running For President. In Related News, The Sun Came Up Today

President Barack Obama will be in town tonight to attend a fundraising event to raise money for his ongoing presidential campaign -- because, well...he's running for president, and attending fundraisers is what people running for president do. Obama's doing what everyone who's ever run for president ... More >>

City Helped Create 22 Companies and 300 Jobs Through Incubator, Bloomberg Brags

​In today's New-York-City-is-the-best-place-in-the-universe news, Mike Bloomberg has for us the latest success story for the Big Apple: its small business start-ups. In line with the theme of many of the mayor's events so far this year -- promoting innovation in fashion, in film and television ( ... More >>

Barack Obama Takes Over the Internet, Runnin' Scared Live Blogs the Prez's Video Stream

In what looks like an attempt to win "cool" points with many of the young, tech-savvy voters he has pissed off during his presidency, Barack Obama is hosting a Google Hangout this afternoon, where he'll answer a few not-at-all cherry-picked questions via live video stream. (We hope a lot of questio ... More >>

Q&A: Southpaw Co-Owner Matt Roff Talks About The Venue's Closing

Yesterday the news that the Park Slope club Southpaw would be turning into an educational center for children broke, and we got comment from co-owner Matt Roff—whose business interests also include Williamsburg's Public Assembly, Greenpoint's No Name Bar, and Crown Heights' Franklin Park— ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg and Christine Quinn Cut Ribbon for Bronx's First City-Sponsored Business Incubator

Mayor Mike Bloomberg fondly remembers his days as a small business owner and likes to share the joy of successful entrepreneurship with New York City start-ups. This time, in the Bronx. The mayor announced today the first city-sponsored business incubator in the borough, which will be part of the ... More >>

Rightbloggers Celebrate America's Great National Holiday: Black Friday

We hope you had a nice Thanksgiving and if you went shopping the next day you weren't trampled. You may have heard that President Obama got some grief from conservatives for failing to mention God in his Thanksgiving proclamation. But for our rightblogger subjects, this was not the worst outrage of ... More >>

Malcolm Gladwell Shilling For Bank of America

​Malcolm Gladwell, author of Blink and The Tipping Point among other books, has a new gig: doing speaking engagements for Bank of America. Somehow nobody seems to have known about this, and Bank of America only released the press release today. Gladwell likes money almost as much as he likes p ... More >>

Lobster Roll Proliferation Is Partially Attributable to Foursquare

The makings of scintillating dinner conversation​ CBS News has discovered Foursquare, a "mobile application that allows its 10 million users to virtually check in from their smart phone when they visit a local business."

End of Ray's?

​Regardless of your feelings on how beneficial restaurant inspections are to the general public, we can all agree that where Ray's Candy Store is concerned, the DOH is one vengeful mother.

Steven Lugerner and Matana Roberts Stimulate the Ears and the Economy

Gig creation

Wine In Supermarkets Redux: The Battle Continues

​They're at it again, those crazy kids fighting in Albany over the long-running debate about whether to allow the state's supermarkets to sell wine. This scrap, which pits the supermarket lobby versus the equally powerful liquor store lobby has been going on for years. The Voice even wrote ab ... More >>

Whither the Korean Greengrocer?

Inha Leex Hale/Flickr​Although they may appear ubiquitous, Korean grocers, with their outdoor fruit and flower displays and inventory of everything from Clif Bars to Cup Noodles, are actually far less common in New York City than they were two decades ago.

Groupon Brushes Off Google's $6 Billion Offer

​Six billion dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? Groupon, the Chicago-based mega-start-up of online group coupons (get it?), turning down a six billion dollar offer from SkyNet Google. The tech giant has more money than God and often uses it to snap up smaller companies. But often, they ... More >>

Brooklyn Driver's "KILL JEWS" Advertising Not Great Boon for Business

Via 1010 WINS/CBS2.​Small businesses in America are -- as we learned in last night's midterm elections -- struggling! No doubt, the ability for everyday Americans to work for themselves and make money being called into question will move political mountains, but politicians also need Americans to ... More >>

Morning Links: Chinese Dissident Awarded Nobel Peace Prize; More Jobs Lost in September; Stinkbugs in Staten Island

​• The 2010 Nobel Peace prize has been awarded to Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese dissident, political essayist, literary critic, and democracy advocate who is currently serving 11 years in jail on subversion charges. Unsurprisingly, the Chinese Foreign Ministry did not appreciate this news one bit, a ... More >>

Chatting With the Treats Truck's Kim Ima: Food TV, Cops Who Like Cookies, and Three-Card Monte

Copyright the Treats TruckKim Ima and a caramel cream sandwich payload.​When she first hit the road in the Treats Truck in 2007, Kim Ima was one of the very first of the new wave of so-called fancy food trucks. Selling homey, retro desserts under the motto of "Not too fancy, always delicious," ... More >>

Pimp Our Ride: The Taxi Cab of Tomorrow 2014 Redesign

Illustration via Crain's New York Business​At the beginning of the year, the Bloomberg administration pitched the ambitious and dreamily titled idea of the Taxi Cab of Tomorrow, tomorrow being 2014 (maybe then we should call it the Taxi Cab of Today, or the Incomplete Transportation Fiasco?). ... More >>

Mayor Bloomberg Actually Does Like That Anti-Food Truck Bill

Never mind.​Although Mayor Bloomberg surprised more than a few people last week when he signaled his opposition to Councilmember Jessica Lappin's proposed anti-food truck legislation, it turns out -- unsurprisingly -- that he's not really sympathetic to food vendors after all.

Gangs of Times Square: Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer Suspiciously Not Down with Edgy New York Gang Riot

​So, maybe you know of this frenetic gang riot in Times Square that local business owners pre-emptively beefed up security for? The same Times Square riot that left a few kids shot and dozens arrested? Well, now you do:

Mohammed Shirajul Islam, Vendor Canned for Bathroom Break, Speaks at Rally

​The poor peanut vendor who got his license yanked for taking a bathroom break, Mohammed Shirajul Islam of Astoria Boulevard, appeared with a few dozen advocates of the Street Vendor Project to make his case to the media today across from City Hall. "I was feeling really bad that day," he tol ... More >>

Gov. Paterson Uncorks Another Wine-in-Supermarkets Bill; Opponents "Outraged"

​Gov. Paterson has once again proposed a measure that would allow supermarkets to sell wine. This time, he's making the proposal part of his 2010-2011 budget. And once again, depending on who you listen to, it's either the end of the world as we know it, or the second coming of the messiah. ... More >>

Day Before Election, Cake Man Raven Secures Valuable Bloomberg Endorsement

​This morning Mike Bloomberg embarked on a whistlestop tour of small business in the five boroughs. So far, he's stopped at two bakeries: Holterman's in Staten Island and Cake Man Raven in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. We caught up with him at Cake Man Raven, where the Mayor spread icing on a six-lay ... More >>

Paid Sick Leave Fans Jump on Swine Flu to Promote Bill

This swine flu thing has something for everybody. Supporters of the Earned Paid Sick Time bill -- which would require city businesses to give employees time off for illness, and is now before the city council -- see in the renewed interest in the bug an opportunity. Councilmember Gale Brewer, a tir ... More >>

Mike Judge Sides with Management in Extract

Candidates for Council, Comptroller, DA Pitch at VID

Democratic candidates for city council seats in districts 1, 2, and 3, district attorney, and comptroller came to the Village Independent Democrats last night to make their cases, under strict time limits and with screened questioning, for the venerable club's endorsement. In District 1: Pete Gle ... More >>

City to Lose $800 Million in Corporate Tax Refunds

Credit Crisis: The Story So Far

Chinatown Residents Fight Gentrification

Harlem Residents to Proclaim Rezoning 'Ain't Over' on Saturday

City Freezes Bronx Councilman's Million-Dollar Non-Profit Play

Zoned Out

High-rises on 125th Street? Harlem's transformation gathers speed.

Congestion Pricing Panel Named

High Prices on Fordham Road

Who's an American? The people at Monday's immigration rally

Rotting Meat Still Litters Gulf Coast

Mississippi governor says federal Katrina response stinks

Eve of Construction

In the new Greenpoint, that means destruction for long-timers forced to close up shop

Scary Ride at Coney Island

Extreme makeover not amusing to everybody in the amusement district

Kids in the Thrall

You make chump change. And Congress likes it that way.

State of Confusion

Local Hero

Risky Business

It takes more than a dollar and a dream to develop a storefront— but the rewards can be priceless