The Schneps Media’s Power Women 30th- anniversary celebration continued with the Power Women of Manhattan. The event ushered in the energy of the spring
The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce honored four community leaders at its annual Black History Month Celebration, held at the historic Weeksville Heritage Center
Sandy Ground uses pandemic as time to revitalize, brings on three new board members
Updated Feb 24, 2021;
Posted Feb 23, 2021
A file photo shows Lucille Herring, left, holding a t-shirt up to Elmore Taylor while Yvonne Taylor, sitting, and Marie Spicer and Sylvia Harris, right, look over other souvenirs of yesterday s Sandy Ground Spring Festival in 1981. (Staten Island Advance)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y While for many the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic hindered business and new projects, the Sandy Ground Historical Society has used the time spent at-home working on revitalizing Sandy Ground for reopening.
Sandy Ground, located in Rossville, was founded in 1827 as a farming village by people who were freed from enslavement. It was originally called Harrisville.
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NEW YORK Clay Reynolds is starting to make peace with a gut-wrenching reality: He may have to once again close his business, Arrichion Hot Yoga and Circuit Training.
The $900 billion pandemic relief package that Congress has just approved contains billions in aid directed specifically at struggling small companies like Reynolds . Arrichion received a loan last spring from the government s earlier economic aid program. But Reynolds, a co-owner, needs another. Business was down 75% in the third quarter. The fourth quarter will likely be worse.
Like other independent fitness studios and gyms, his has lost many longtime members who feared working out alongside others indoors or don t want to wear a mask while exercising. And after being forced to close during the spring, Reynolds worries that the surge in virus cases will bring new government restrictions.
As small businesses await new federal aid, it’s too late for some
Joyce M. Rosenberg and Paul Wiseman
Associated Press
New York Sarah Trubnick is starting to make peace with a gut-wrenching reality: She may never reopen The Barrel Room, her beloved 5-year-old restaurant in San Francisco’s financial district.
The sweeping $900 billion pandemic relief package that Congress has approved contains billions in aid directed specifically at struggling small businesses like Trubnick’s. But even if she gets the $350,000 she figures she needs before the end of January, Trubnick can’t afford to reopen right away.
Her business won’t be viable until her regular customers office workers who commute into the city and go out for lunch and dinner return from work-at-home exile. She’s also contending with California’s temporary ban on indoor or outdoor dining.