With a perceived uptick in vacant storefronts in parts of the city getting more attention, the City Council’s small business committee held a hearing Monday to consider a package of proposals to ...

New speaker Corey Johnson has indicated strong support for the 'Small Business Jobs Survival Act,' which his predecessor did little to advance. The end of 2017 saw a welcome wave of attention to the ...

As small businesses disappear from the city, and bodegas and hardware stores and music venues are supplanted by chain drugstores and bank branches, or sit vacant for months, it’s worth remembering ...

Shuttered stores on Willis Avenue just North of East 146th street in Mott Haven. In the wake of the June passage of sweeping rent-regulation reforms in Albany, some local elected officials and ...

A bill to amend New York City law to establish conditions and requirements for commercial lease renewals with the aim of preserving small businesses will have its first hearing in the City Council ...