Small Business

Saluting Von Murray’s Iconic ‘School of Hard Knocks’ With New Street Name

July 7, 2022, 6:35 p.m.July 18, 2022, 4:22 p.m.

For many New Yorkers, shirts with “SOHK” and “Queens 7” designs captured the pride and toughness of the World’s Borough. The brand began in the Corona shop of Ortner “Von” Murray, whose life, cut short by COVID, will be honored on Saturday.

Small Business

Can NYC Help Small Businesses Help Themselves?

April 24, 2022, 2:50 p.m.April 25, 2022, 1:42 p.m.

The lifeblood of New York’s economy, small entrepreneurs say they need more assistance and less bureaucratic red tape.

How to New York

Hochul Drops Mask-or-Vax Mandate. What Does That Mean for New Yorkers?

Feb. 9, 2022, 2:31 p.m.Oct. 13, 2023, 2:51 p.m.

New York state will no longer require proof of vaccination or mask wearing at indoor businesses and venues, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday, easing some pandemic restrictions as COVID cases and hospitalizations continue to plunge. Citing a 94% statewide drop in positive COVID cases from December and a 63% drop in hospitalizations from last month, […]

Small Business

New York’s 100-Year-Old Businesses Offer Lessons in Survival

Jan. 19, 2022, 7:33 p.m.Oct. 28, 2022, 2:25 p.m.

These savvy centenarians have anchored communities and weathered crises from the Great Depression to COVID. Can they withstand further uncertainty?

Economy

Omicron Afflicts Already Ailing NYC Economy, Pushing Projected Jobs Recovery Back to 2025

Jan. 5, 2022, 6:44 p.m.Jan. 6, 2022, 3:15 p.m.

From Wall Street to Brownstone Brooklyn, business establishments have again grown quiet in response to the pandemic. The Independent Budget Office has added a year to the expected timeline for a full city jobs recovery.

Economy

What Will Eric Adams Do for Beleaguered Businesses? Owners Air Hopes While Awaiting Answers

Jan. 3, 2022, 9:30 a.m.Jan. 3, 2022, 1:08 p.m.

From restaurants to real estate, pandemic-battered industries seek specifics from a new mayor who pledged to be pro-business but has so far provided few specifics.

Small Business

NYC Small Business Seek Adams’ Help to Emerge From the Pandemic Recession

Dec. 6, 2021, 9:31 a.m.Dec. 6, 2021, 11:14 a.m.

The incoming istration should create a 300-person technical assistance corps to bring one-on-one aid to small firms — especially those owned by New Yorkers of color, a new Center for an Urban Future report found.

Vaccinations

Cuomo’s Call for Private Businesses to Require Vaccinations Spurs Demands for a Government Mandate

July 28, 2021, 6:25 p.m.July 29, 2021, 5:06 p.m.

The governor urged the private sector to order employees back to workplaces and make everybody — including customers — get shots. But business owners said it’s up to elected officials to lead the way amid rising COVID rates.

Economy

Shuttered Subway Shops Show Manhattan’s Lagging Recovery Amid ‘Terrible’ Losses

May 23, 2021, 7:16 p.m.March 14, 2024, 2:24 p.m.

Station use has seen less of a falloff in Brooklyn, Queens and The Bronx, records indicate. One sign of the times: Many Manhattan underground retail outlets remain “like a ghost town.”

Economy

Brooklyn Restaurant Renaissance is Cooking, Poised to Overtake Manhattan as City’s Food Capital

May 19, 2021, 8:40 p.m.May 20, 2021, 3:10 p.m.

Hundreds of new establishments have received permits to open this year, surging into work-from-home neighborhoods while shunning business districts decimated by the pandemic.

Small Business

Saluting Von Murray’s Iconic ‘School of Hard Knocks’ With New Street Name

Can NYC Help Small Businesses Help Themselves?

Hochul Drops Mask-or-Vax Mandate. What Does That Mean for New Yorkers?

New York’s 100-Year-Old Businesses Offer Lessons in Survival

Omicron Afflicts Already Ailing NYC Economy, Pushing Projected Jobs Recovery Back to 2025

What Will Eric Adams Do for Beleaguered Businesses? Owners Air Hopes While Awaiting Answers

NYC Small Business Seek Adams’ Help to Emerge From the Pandemic Recession

Cuomo’s Call for Private Businesses to Require Vaccinations Spurs Demands for a Government Mandate

Shuttered Subway Shops Show Manhattan’s Lagging Recovery Amid ‘Terrible’ Losses

Brooklyn Restaurant Renaissance is Cooking, Poised to Overtake Manhattan as City’s Food Capital

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