Eateries like Golden Mandarin Court, Amazing 66 and Hope Shing are shuttering after months of quarantine restrictions and decreased tourism. ‘It’s been four months now. It’s not getting any better,’…
From street vendors to nearby shops, the largely Latino Bronx neighborhood is feeling the loss of this year’s crowds. “Many people here depend on what goes on before, during and…
Salon workers and owners, many of them immigrants, head back to work this week as part of New York’s Phase 3 reopening. But many are worried about how new social…
Speaker Johnson’s office says the Council is working to tweak the decades-old Small Business Jobs Survival Act. But advocates are frustrated and fear ‘a completely different watered down version’ of…
The de Blasio administration says it has started to deliver on promises of housing help, street improvements and business assistance. Tenant groups and business advocates, however, say their worries remain.
Rising commercial rent is a major worry for immigrant businesses around the city, according to a survey released this week by the Association of Neighborhood and Housing Development.
Speaker Corey Johnson took issue with the de Blasio administration’s lack of action to address the problem of commercial vacancies. But he also faulted Small Business Jobs Survival Act supporters…
Over the decades, supporters of the bill have faced questions about its legality and economic impact, and it has generated strong opposition from the real-estate lobby.