Tag: mom and pop shops

The stimulus bill meant to help people survive economically through the virus crisis has a section offering loans to small businesses -- and if the money is

Meet the new owners of Beacon Paint & Hardware, brothers Segundo and Orlando More, new to the location, but not to the hardware business nor to the neighborhood.

Hanukkah is here and so is Christmas. If you need a present or simply a pick-me-up

A grassroots group called UWS Save Our Stores is holding its first Town Hall Meeting on Thursday and local politicians will explain their plans to stem

There’s something new about the window of Paper House, the beloved, 39-year-old party store on Amsterdam Avenue, between 72nd and 73rd Streets

Upper West Siders are stressed out about the vacant storefronts throughout the neighborhood. Mark Miller, co-owner of Hex & Co. at

The Small Business Jobs Survival Act (SBJSA) is a bill pending in the New York City Council intended to shore up small businesses and reduce

On October 22nd, the City Council Committee on Small Business will hold a hearing on the Small Business Jobs Survival Act (SBJSA), a bill intended

McAleer's Pub at 425 Amsterdam Avenue plans to close next month after 65 years on the Upper West Side, owner Keith McAleer said in a Facebook post.

Silver Moon Bakery, a pearl of a shop, does both food and volume -- a delicious selection of breads and pastries and a line of customers straight out the door in most any season.

When asked what she wanted to do, my 17-year-old goddaughter, visiting from California the week before Christmas, didn’t hesitate: “Go shopping,” she said.

Back in the good and bad old days, in the early 1970s -- when the Upper West Side was considered both a community in the best sense of the word and a place

When he heard about the forthcoming changes in the Commercial Rent Tax (CRT), levied on businesses in Manhattan below 96th Street, Greg Hunt

Joon Westside Fish Market, at 774 Amsterdam Avenue near West 98th Street, closed earlier this month. Filmmaker Christopher Ming Ryan spent

Some traditions are hard to break, even when the rest of the world seems to have moved on. Pioneer Supermarket on Columbus

Thanks to an outpouring of support and sales, West Side Judaica owner Yaakov Saltzer told us that he no longer plans to close the

Upper Breast Side, a breastfeeding resource center and store on Amsterdam Avenue that has helped women throughout

In a political season where landlords have been excoriated for forcing out longtime local businesses, one landlord who was trying

When we asked our readers to name a local business that would break their hearts if it closed, Joseph Pharmacy, on 72nd street between Broadway

Imagine the Upper West Side with no corner delis or neighborhood grocery stores. “It’s only a matter of time,” says Taso Mastakouris. “If nothing changes