New Flatbush Clothing Outlet
Hires 119 Through ‘Workforce1’
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – The city’s Workforce1 career centers, including the Brooklyn center at 9 Bond Street, have placed New Yorkers in 20,000 jobs since the beginning of this year, up 42 percent from
The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce has announced new dental and vision benefits for its health program, Brooklyn HealthWorks.
Brooklyn HealthWorks, the Chamber’s low-cost health insurance plan for small businesses, selected (after a competitive review process) Guardian Life Insurance Company of
Flushing Financial Corp., the parent holding company for Flushing Savings Bank (FSB), which has several offices in Brooklyn, reports that it has paid back its TARP funds in full.
The bank redeemed the full $70 million in preferred stock issued to {read more...}
Pictured at the recent Caribbean American Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CACCI)-sponsored Business Opportunity Power Breakfast at Brooklyn Borough Hall, from left, are Edmund Sadio of Century 21 Achievers; Derek Cyrus of DMC Management, CACCI President Roy Hastick Sr., Jason Wright of the NYC Economic Development Corp., Marvin Lieberman of SCORE, Shah Newaz of Grameen America Bank, CACCI Board Chair Derek Broomes and Jessica Odle Brail of E. G Bowman. {read more...}
New State Directory Contains
Information on 140 Programs
By Raanan Geberer
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
CADMAN PLAZA WEST – Brooklyn small-business owners who are confused by the maze of state government regulations, requirements and programs will welcome the New York State Directory of Small Business Programs put together by the Empire State Development Corp.
To celebrate its brand new location at 1524 86th St. in Bay Ridge, Weichert Realtors’ The Franzese Group plans a “Wizard of Oz” pre-Halloween party on Saturday, Oct. 24.
Senator Marty Golden will join brokers and staff “on the
Two business partners who deliver organic milk in old-fashioned glass bottles to Manhattan apartment buildings are looking to expand their business to Brownstone Brooklyn. Matt Marone and Frank Acosta charge $4.99 a quart for milk from grass-fed cows in Pennsylvania {read more...}
Rich Warner of Sheepshead Bay is making a difference in the lives of Brooklyn school children. Realizing that youngsters need to learn the basics of saving and money management at an early age, Warner, a vice president for Citibank Commercial Banking, was recently presented with the Kings Bay Y Exemplary
More than 100 Hispanic business owners were matched with lenders during the first bilingual NYC Business Solutions Financing Fair held recently in Manhattan.
The fair, sponsored by the city’s Department of Small Business Services (SBS) and the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant
U.S. Representative Edolphus “Ed” Towns (NY-10), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, collaborated with Monster.com, the leading global online career and recruitment resource and flagship brand of Monster Worldwide, Inc., as the company’s national Keep America Working career fair tour traveled to Brooklyn last week. Rep. Towns spoke to attendees and representatives from his office were on hand along with Mon ster.com experts to speak with job seekers about local unemployment benefits and services available to them {read more...}
The historic Guss’s Pickles will be packing up its sidewalk barrels on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. It’s headed across the Brooklyn Bridge, to Borough Park. Owner Pat Fairhurst blames high rents, among other things.
Program Receives ‘Placemaking Award’ from Mayor, SBS
FORT GREENE/CLINTON HILL — A campaign to promote retailers along Myrtle Avenue in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill garnered an award for the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership last week.
The partnership received the “Placemaking Award” at the Neighborhood Achievement Awards ceremony sponsored by the NYC Department of Small Business Services at Gracie Mansion.
Selected from among more than 100 citywide nominees for the honor, the partnership was recognized for its “Home Grown & Locally
Ferry Service, Bus Extensions,
Shuttle Buses Had Impact
By Dennis Holt
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BROOKLYN — Traffic studies these days are usually depressing and not fun to read, with a lot of statements reading “to be mitigated.”
So it was a rare moment when Sam Schwartz Engineering, one of the city’s prominent traffic consultants, could issue a new study that was actually good news containing surprises.
Blue Marble Ice Cream, which has stores in Boerum Hill and Prospect Heights, will hold a benefit Sunday evening to celebrate and support its pilot program, Sweet Dreams, to build Rwanda’s first-ever local ice cream shop. To be held at {read more...}
