Cjala Surratt, a Syracuse University alumna, founded Black Citizens Brigade to fight fast fashion and provide customers with well-made secondhand clothing.
Cjala Surratt, a Syracuse University alumna, founded Black Citizens Brigade to fight fast fashion and provide customers with well-made secondhand clothing.
Sip and Shop at Gypsy Freedom, Humane Society online auction, and moonlight skiing: 11 things to do in CNY
Updated Jan 20, 2021;
There will be virtual shopping, classical music, women’s hockey and plays this weekend.
If you want to get out, Beaver Lake will be having skiing and snowshoeing under the moon this weekend on its ten miles of trails.
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Snow at Beaver Lake Nature Center . Michelle Gabel/The Post-Standard
Moonlight Skiing and Snowshoeing at Beaver Lake
The ten miles of trails at Beaver Lake Nature Center will remain open late this weekend (until 9 p.m. and if there is adequate snow on the ground) to allow skiers and snowshoers a chance to enjoy them under the stars and moonlight. Organizers ask participants to sign in and out and bring a friend and a flashlight. Social distancing when necessary and masks are required.
Syracuse-area retailers, battered by Covid, find a strategy: appointment-only shopping
Updated Dec 14, 2020;
Posted Dec 14, 2020
Caeresa Richardson poses in her women s fashion boutique, Gypsy Freedom, in downtown Syracuse. Rick Moriarty | rmoriarty@syracuse.com
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Syracuse, N.Y. It didn’t take long for Caeresa Richardson to figure out how to attract customers hesitant to visit her new women’s clothing boutique in downtown Syracuse during the coronavirus pandemic.
Richardson offers private one-hour virtual and in-person shopping appointments at Gypsy Freedom, which she opened at 312 S. Salina St. in August. The private shopping opportunities have proven popular, she said.
“Some customers don’t want to be around people,” she said. “With a private appointment, there’s not the risk that there’s a lot of people or we’re over capacity and now they’ll have to wait. They get that dedicated shopping hour.”