Rendering: Essex Street Market.
The city’s Economic Development Corp. (EDC) announced today a few of the new vendors joining the Essex Street Market when it opens an expanded facility as part of the Essex Crossing project next year.
Joining 27 existing merchants in the new market space will be three independent businesses well known to New Yorkers. They are Chinatown Ice Cream Factory, a local institution for four decades; Essex Shambles, an offshoot of the butcher shop Harlem Shambles; and Zerza, a new concept from Radouane Eljaouhari (he previously operated the Moroccan spot Zerza on East Sixth Street).
The 77-year-old market will be tripling its space in the new facility, which is scheduled to open on the south side of Delancey Street in September of 2018. The EDC, which operates the facility, is working on filling nine more stalls, plus two stand-alone restaurant spaces.
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.
Press release content from Business Wire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation.
MetroPlusHealth Teams Up With Artists and Creators to Help Unemployed Asian American New Yorkers Impacted by COVID-19
December 21, 2020 GMT
MetroPlusHealth Teams up With Artists and Creators to Help Unemployed Asian American New Yorkers Impacted by COVID-19 (Photo: Business Wire)
MetroPlusHealth Teams up With Artists and Creators to Help Unemployed Asian American New Yorkers Impacted by COVID-19 (Photo: Business Wire)
NEW YORK (BUSINESS WIRE) Dec 21, 2020
As COVID cases surge across the city, record rates of unemployment among Asian American New Yorkers have left many in the community without health insurance coverage. To increase awareness of government-sponsored health insurance options, MetroPlus Health Plan, a top-ranked health plan trusted by nearly 600,000 New Yorkers, has teamed up with leading Asian American artists and creators to launch a first of its kind social media campa