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Paid Family Leave – SoHo Broadway Business
Mayor De Blasio signed a bill on Friday, December 22, 2017 that will give some small businesses in Manhattan a break from the city’s much-derided commercial rent tax.
The Microgrant Program picks up where the Food Waste Fair left off
WE Fund: Crowd, a first-of-its-kind City-led crowdfunding program
The NYC Human Rights Law protects New Yorkers against discrimination and harassment in employment, housing, and public accommodations.
The City’s certification programs feature the Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprise (M/WBE) Program, the Emerging Business Enterprise (EBE) Program and the Locally-based Business Enterprise (LBE) Program. We certify, promote, and foster the growth of the City’s M/WBEs and eligible small construction and construction-related businesses. More than 4,500 businesses currently benefit from New York City Certification. […]
All businesses in New York City are required to recycle certain materials and ensure to the best of their ability that those recyclable materials are properly handled by their private carter. The City published new business recycling rules in the City Record on February 5, 2016, and mailed official notices outlining the requirements to all […]
The Artist As Entrepreneur offered by New York Foundation for the Arts, is a boot camp that offers the fundamental principles of sustainability—and ultimately profitability—in the arts. This includes topics such as strategic planning, finance, and marketing, with additional material drawn from NYFA’s popular textbook, The Profitable Artist (Allworth Press, 2011), which is included in […]
What is ParkNYC? It’s an easy and convenient way to pay for on-street parking and municipal parking lots using a mobile phone or web browser. ParkNYC is available wherever there is metered parking in New York City. Be sure to look for the ParkNYC zone numbers on Muni-Meter decals and signs at the end of each block. […]
The Bike to Work Challenge is now Open! The Bike to Work Challenge is a Month-long competition to find New York City’s “Bikingest Workplace.” This is the workplace with the highest percentage of employees who commute to and from work by bike in the month of May. All workplaces in the Five Boroughs are welcome […]
The New York City Department of Transportation is developing a Citywide Transit Plan to plan for the future of transit in New York City, and account for where and how New Yorkers live today and into the future. With input from the community, the plan will identify citywide needs, values and a shared vision, and […]
From August 2016 to June 2017, New Yorkers from all walks of life will help shape the future of arts and culture in NYC. CreateNYC will incorporate intensive public input and an in-depth evaluation of the city’s cultural assets in a comprehensive cultural plan. CreateNYC is an exciting opportunity to create a long term roadmap […]
Businesses and commercial property owners play a crucial role in protecting our environment and achieving the Mayor’s goal of reducing commercial waste by 90% by 2030. In addition to lowering costs by avoiding common sanitation violations, businesses can benefit by reducing their carbon footprint, maintaining a clean property, and increasing their competitive edge. New commercial […]
NYC BigApps is the premier civic innovation competition in New York City that challenges designers, developers, academics, entrepreneurs, and New Yorkers at large to apply their know-how to improve New York City. For the last seven years, the BigApps competition has challenged entrepreneurial teams to create innovative products and services that address critical civic and […]
Businesses and commercial property owners play a crucial role in protecting our environment and achieving the Mayor’s goal of reducing commercial waste by 90% by 2030. In addition to lowering costs by avoiding common sanitation violations, businesses can benefit by reducing their carbon footprint, maintaining a clean property, and increasing their competitive edge. New commercial […]
