One thing is for certain: Odessa Restaurant is closing for a renovation. When — or even if — the famed 24-hour East Village diner will…
Posts tagged as “small business”
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | That’s how the kielbasa crumbles. One of the last of the East Village’s fabled Ukrainian diners is set to close…
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Even before the coronavirus pandemic, Downtown small businesses were suffering, with streets blighted by rows of empty storefronts. It’s been…
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Things could not be looking any bleaker for small businesses amid the crippling global coronavirus pandemic. A former chairperson of Community…
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Saying they’re concerned the city will use the coronavirus pandemic to further displace small businesses and working people, an activist…
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Ray Alvarez is the definition of a grinder. The hard-working East Village merchant, in his eighth decade, continues to pull the…
New York City’s first neighborhoods rose up in Lower Manhattan. Today dozens of antiquated signs that advertised businesses that have long vanished have improbably survived.…
Above, at the grand opening of Li-Lac Chocolates on Greenwich Ave., from left, Andres Pazmino, president of the Greenwich Village-Chelsea Chamber of Commerce; Anwar Khoder,…