Business & Innovation

Electeds Express Outrage: Minorities Represent 65 Percent of NYC Tax-Paying Population, Yet Receive Only 1 Percent of City's Business Contracts!

NYC Comptroller Scott M.

Dec 14, 2015 4:24 PM Read more >

Small Businesses in Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights Become 'Safe Stops' for Pedestrians in Need of Help

Monday morning, City Councilmember Robert Cornegy, Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson and members of the NYP were in Bedford-Stuyvesant to announce the launch of Project Safe Stop, a community partnership connecting small businesses of Bed-S

Dec 7, 2015 2:35 PM Read more >

Is Shopping Local For You?

It's beginning to look alot like Christmas and the full-on shopping bonanza has set off like dynamite, which conversely, has also ignited the local shopping movement.

Dec 4, 2015 12:02 PM Read more >

Nov 28 is Small Business Saturday: Deals in Crown Heights

Small Business Saturday (or "Shop Small Saturday") is November 28, 2015, the Saturday following Thanksgiving, the day that has been dedicated to supporting the small businesses in your neighborhood.

Nov 20, 2015 3:33 PM Read more >

Comptroller Stringer Invites Residents to Air Their Concerns at Brooklyn Town Hall

Brooklynites: What are your greatest concerns as residents? Is it policing in your neighborhood? Is it a lack of small business development? Is it traffic and parking around Barclays Center? Or perhaps its the unabated rising rents.

Nov 19, 2015 9:06 AM Read more >

Comptroller Report: Unemployment Rate in Brooklyn Drops, from 7.5% to 5.5%

According to an analysis of the City's economic performance in the third quarter of 2015 released Friday by New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer, the City's unemployment rate is down to 5.4 percent, the lowest rate since 2008.

Nov 17, 2015 1:30 PM Read more >

5 Things You Should Know About Medical Marijuana in NYC

Gov. Cuomo Signing Compassionate Care Bill The cannabis legalization creep is moving across the country ( click here for a map ), in a pattern that is neither linear nor logical.

Nov 17, 2015 10:23 AM Read more >

Brooklyn NAACP and African-American Chamber of Commerce to Hold Empowerment Breakfast for Women Business Owners

On Saturday, November 21, from 10:00am - 12:00noon, join the Brooklyn NAACP & LI African-American Chamber of Commerce (Brooklyn Chapter) for a Women's Empowerment Breakfast for women-owned small businesses in Central and East Brooklyn.

Nov 4, 2015 12:14 PM Read more >

Local Architectural Team, Eray Carbajo, Wins Award for Wearable Design

(l to r) Principal Partners at Eray/Carbajo Gonzalo Carbajo, Pinar Güvenç and Inanç Eray, If you've ever wondered what was really happening inside the amorphous gray monolith of buildings known as The Brookyn Navy Yard, rest assured, it's a great dea

Oct 30, 2015 8:00 AM Read more >

Brooklyn Small Business Owners Air Their Concerns at 'Red Tape Commission' Hearing

Red Tape Commission Hearing, hosted by the office of NYC Comptroller Scott M. Stringer "I think [small businesses] have real issues, and you're not a man on an island," said Nigel Thomas, owner of Golocker, a DUMBO-based package delivery company.

Oct 16, 2015 4:32 PM Read more >