Bronx
The Casualties
Melanie Lefkowitz |
“A lot of small businesses aren’t getting the assistance they need to become more competitive.”
“A lot of small businesses aren’t getting the assistance they need to become more competitive.”
In an excerpt from the City Limits magazine investigation of small businesses in New York, a look at the holdouts along increasingly chain-ganged 86th Street.
“If it doesn’t start doing something soon, I’m going to be out of business after 26 years.”
A look at the Bronx Business Improvement District at Third Avenue and 155th Street.
Small businesses help make New York’s neighborhoods. But as the next issue of City Limits reports, economic trends and policy decisions are threatening their survival.
A year after the collapse of a plan for new transmission lines to New York City, questions remain. Was the need for new infrastructure a myth? Or are tougher choices ahead for consumers?
The benefits rolls are far smaller and the mayor is quite different, but the debate over welfare in New York still revolves around whether eligible applicants are being turned away.
NYCHA’s using community input to plan for what to build after three public housing towers are demolished. But the plan means a loss of public housing, and it confronts deep distrust from some tenants.
New Yorkers are always on the move and the city’s entrepreneurs wouldn’t have it any other way.