Usher in the Year of the Ox with these family-friendly activities Credit: Kenishirotie Updated March 19, 2021
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NEW YORK CITY (WABC) So many businesses have suffered greatly during the coronavirus pandemic and in Chinatown, a community that s suffered from the get-go, businesses are fighting to survive.
At Jing Fong in Chinatown, along with the food descriptions in the window, are signs notifying customers that employees are tested for COVID-19. In the beginning, our staff was a little nervous because no one wanted to deal with the reality of a positive case, Jing Fong s Claudia Leo said.
But Leo said the staff now looks forward to the weekly tests. You could say now they re happier that they re negative, going back to their family and multi-generational households, Leo said.
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City Excludes Parts Of Chinatown From Small Business Pandemic Loans Intended For Lower Income Neighborhoods
arrow The corner of Pell and Doyers Streets in Chinatown, Manhattan on May 15th, 2020. Debra L Rothenberg/Shutterstock
A city pandemic loan program intended to help out small businesses in lower-income neighborhoods and communities of color has left out a swath of Manhattan s Chinatown.
In late November, the city s Department of Small Business Services launched a $35 million low-to-moderate income storefront loan program. Small businesses in certain neighborhoods could receive up to $100,000 in a zero-interest loan. The funds would provide loans for at least 350 businesses across the city, depending on the size of loans allocated.
Mayor de Blasio extends Open Storefronts program to restaurants and bars
In a minor win for restaurateurs this week, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that restaurants and bars can now use a portion of their sidewalk space to accept takeout orders and sell pre-packaged food items as part of the city’s ongoing Open Storefronts program. The program which previously allowed non-food businesses to use a portion of their sidewalk “to display merchandise, sell goods, complete transactions, and provide queuing areas” now extends to the city’s restaurants and bars until at least next fall.
The Open Storefronts extension comes as a growing number of restaurants and bars repurpose their indoor dining rooms as markets, grocery stores, and wine shops to keep their doors open through the winter. Those goods can now be sold from the sidewalk space in front of businesses, so long as they maintain an eight-foot path from the curb and do not use the sidewalk space of adjacent businesses.