Business & Innovation

SPONSORED Small business is the spark plug of the American economy, and for small business owners, opening up shop is often the inaugural step in staking claim to the American Dream. But dreams need to be nurtured into actuality.

Elizabeth Mandarano, owner of 7 Arlington Place, the brownstone that was the setting for the movie, "Crooklyn" There's hardly a single Brooklynite unfamiliar with the 1994 iconic Spike Lee film, "Crooklyn," a story that chronicles a Brooklyn family a

Photo: Facebook The Tompkins Avenue coffee shop Common Grounds-- a beloved staple in the Bed-Stuy community-- will be closing on September 27, 2015, announced its owner Tremaine Wright on Facebook on Thursday.

Donald Edwards, co-owner of Locale Village Shop & Yoga "Bed-Stuy made me do it," said Donald Edwards, co-owner of Locale Village Shop & Yoga , a boutique gift shop and yoga studio, located at 410 Marcus Garvey Blvd.

SPONSORED Communities are a compendium of people, places, things and energy. A community is also a direct reflection of the level of investment by its key financial anchors.

WASH AVE ROCKS! is back. The 6th annual street fair will take place this year on Sunday, August 16, from 12:00noon to 6:00pm on Washington Avenue (between Prospect Place and St. Marks Avenue).

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On Monday, July 13, beginning at 9:30am, TD Bank will hold a job screening fair at Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, located at 1368 Fulton Street. Three TD Banks have opened in Central Brooklyn in the last year.

As an avid vintage shopper, I can honestly say that flea markets definitely have a hierarchy. The ratio of rare finds versus plain ol' junk, in conjunction with affordability, determines the rank of a flea market on that hierarchy.