record high private sector employment and have record life expectancey and the most parks in history and the cleanest air in our history. we have bike share that has been successful and transformed this city through rezonings and street scape improvements. this is the best time to live in new york in my time. i believe mike bloomberg will go down as the greatest mayor in the history of the city. we will do everything we can in the next 54 days to make the transition to the mayor-elect as seamless and painless as possible. we want to make sure he hits the ground running and as mike bloomberg said, he would like them to do a better job. we believe the best days are ahead. we give the city over in better shape than we found it and in very good shape. is there something specific that deblasio promised to doed
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in the revitalization here? one of the very first meetings we had, someone brought a picture that a local elementary student drew of our downtown, and it was a picture of walmart with the walmart parking lot. we just said we have to do something now. so what turned this town from a place where people didn t really come, to the little town that could? well, i think a lot had to do with getting a main street manager, somebody that their sole purpose was to make this downtown area thrive. the town needed a visionary, it needed a leader. people were okay to follow. i think we needed an organizer, which i love to organize, so that was fine with me. hi, my name s tammie wiley, i ve owned bedford candies for three years. what s changed? everything, street scape, facade, people come in and say
and actually right now i can t make them fast enough. the demand is too high. i would like to be able to meet my demand but i can t because of funding. right now we re currently seeking $100,000 to invest in our tree unique to fortify the company and therefore with the money, 30% to 40% of it will go to marketing and promotions, the rest into operating costs and supplies. the investor would then get back their investment plus interest and also i would like to add the fact that we don t cut down trees to create our product, but we go to lumberyards and cut from already cut down trees. i was waiting for you to get to that part. sustainable part. you did a great job. this is beautiful. thank you for coming on and pitching this to our panel. i want to see how you thought of the pitch. we know that the furniture is beautiful. but the pitch itself, did he get everything in there? i think it is a timely idea. i like it a lot. i would say it was a good pitch. maybe focus more on the price
once those grants became available, more people were interested in opening businesses downtown. then i started working on street scape projects. i m brian speck, the founder of bad boys bistro. have you seen the community change since you ve been here? prior to things being done around here, friday nights one or two cars, now friday nights, the streets are full. what did the sidewalks look like before they were repaired? terrible. uneven? uneven, cracks, disarray. i was literally in our visitor s bureau and somebody came in and said, where s downtown bedford? oh, boy, this is not good. we ve gotten over $1.3 million that we ve put back into our downtown, sidewalks, pedestrian lighting, banners, sidewalks. can it really change everything, do those little things really change everything? they do. everything that happens in a small community like this definitely helps business in