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Welcome to Year in Eater 2020, Eater’s of eulogizing the past 12 months. In 2020’s final days, Eater NY will be posting questions about New York City’s restaurant scene in the past year, with answers from food writers, photographers, chefs, restaurateurs, entrepreneurs, and even a few local legislators who helped to support the industry through this enormously difficult year. Now, we ask: What is your biggest hope for the restaurant industry in 2021?
Joanne Kwong, president of NYC institution Pearl River Mart and
: My biggest hope is that Congress signs a proper relief bill (not a skinny one) and quick. Restaurants and retail businesses like ours are hanging on by a string. We are all depleting savings and amassing debt that will take years to dig out from under. But, with funding from the federal government and a comprehensive small business strategy from our states and municipalities, the restaurant industry could embark on a real renaissance since great creativity has
The city has issued an RFP seeking developers for a two-acre
affordable housing project on Staten Island’s north shore.
Stapleton Site A is a vacant lot south of Hannah Street that is part of the New Stapleton Waterfront District, a 35-acre decommissioned Navy Base (rendering pictured top via HPD).
The New York City Economic Development Corporation (EDC) is
overseeing the City’s redevelopment of the New Stapleton Waterfront into a
mixed-use neighborhood with housing, waterfront open space and retail and
community facility uses.
It will also include
significant infrastructure improvements such as road reconstruction, bicycle
and walking paths, and better connections to public transit.