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Small Business

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 27, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2011

    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."

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2011

    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.

  • Music

    April 27, 2011

    Steven Lugerner and Matana Roberts Stimulate the Ears and the Economy

    Gig creation

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2011

    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.

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2010

    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.

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2010

    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:

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2009

    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 >>

  • Film

    September 1, 2009

    Mike Judge Sides with Management in Extract

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2009

    "Store Front" Exhibition Celebrates Old New York

    Photo by jimandkarlamurray on Flickr "Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York," an exhibition by photographers James and Karla Murray, opens today at Clic Gallery on Center Street. The series of photographs of mom-and-pop storefronts, which spans ten years, includes a shot of the now shutter ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2008

    City to Lose $800 Million in Corporate Tax Refunds

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2008

    Credit Crisis: The Story So Far

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2008

    Chinatown Residents Fight Gentrification

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2008

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2008

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

    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 >>

  • News

    December 4, 2007

    Zoned Out

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

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2007

    Congestion Pricing Panel Named

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

  • News

    April 25, 2006

    High Prices on Fordham Road

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

  • News

    December 6, 2005

    Rotting Meat Still Litters Gulf Coast

    Mississippi governor says federal Katrina response stinks

  • News

    November 29, 2005

    Eve of Construction

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

  • NYC Life

    June 21, 2005

    Scary Ride at Coney Island

    Extreme makeover not amusing to everybody in the amusement district

  • News

    March 15, 2005

    Kids in the Thrall

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

  • Film

    June 18, 2002

    State of Confusion

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

  • Film

    April 6, 1999

    Local Hero

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

  • News

    March 2, 1999

    Risky Business

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

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