New York City Department of Small Business Services (SBS) will be celebrating National Small Business Week in each of the City’s five boroughs, with a scheduled Bronx stop in Little Yemen. Each day of the week which runs from Monday, May 2, to Friday, May 6, will feature events to raise awareness about the many resources and services the agency offers to small businesses, to encourage New Yorkers to shop local, and to celebrate the reopening of the City’s small businesses as economic recovery efforts ramp up.

According to SBS officials, the week-long celebration will also recognize the City’s ethnically diverse neighborhoods and immigrant-owned businesses as part of the five-borough, five-day tour during which the cuisines of the world will also be sampled. The celebration in each borough will feature neighborhood-specific themes and entertainment, commencing with a speaking program, giveaways, and a resource fair where small businesses can learn more about SBS services which include business mentorship and financial and legal assistance. Business owners can also meet with representatives from a variety of City agencies, and community partners.

Taking into account the specific neighborhood, program and support materials will be available in a variety of languages including Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Korean, Haitian Creole, Bengali, Sinhalese, and Tamil. An SBS mobile unit will also be on site at each location with SBS staff providing one-on-one access to services for both small businesses and for any residents who may be looking for employment.

Throughout the week, SBS will also be promoting its “Shop Your City” campaign, encouraging New Yorkers to support their local small businesses. The Shop Your City website will include a calendar of upcoming events, as well as maps and lists of small businesses, grouped by location and owner demographic, to help residents and visitors discover small businesses to support in their local neighborhood and beyond. Business owners can add their businesses at the following link: Submit an Event – Shop Your City (cityofnewyork.us).

Schedule and Location of Events

Monday, May 2, Surprise Performative Kick-Off at Marcy Plaza in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn

2:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. – speaking program and partners:

• Bridge Street Development Corporation
• Bedford sStuyvesant Restoration Corporation
• Bed-Stuy Gateway BID

2 p.m. to 4 p.m. – resource fair

Tuesday, May 3, Celebrating with the Staten Island FerryHawks and Sri Lankan Dance Academy of NY at Staten Island Borough Hall in St. George

1:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. – speaking program and partners:

• Staten Island Chamber of Commerce

2 p.m. to 4 p.m. – resource fair

Wednesday, May 4, Celebrating Small Business Week and (AAPI) Month with partners, featuring cultural performances by Chinese ribbon dancers and puppet theatre at Chinatown’s Chatham Square in Lower Manhattan

1:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. – speaking program and partners:

• Chinatown BID
• Welcome to Chinatown

2 p.m. to 4 p.m. – resource fair

Thursday, May 5, Cinco de Mayo Celebration with mariachi band, El Mariachi Tapatio de Alvaro Paulino at the Manuel de Dios Unanue Triangle in Jackson Heights

1:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. – speaking program and partners:

• 82^nd Street Partnership
• Queens Chamber of Commerce

2 p.m. to 4 p.m. – resource fair

Friday, May 6, Celebrating Bronx Week with Eid music and festivities at the Triangle on Rhinelander and White Plains Road in Little Yemen, The Bronx

1:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. – speaking program and partners:

• Yemeni American Merchants Association
• Morris Park BID
• Bronx BP
• Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation
• Bronx Chamber of Commerce

2 p.m. to 4 p.m. – resource fair

The city agencies scheduled to be in attendance include: 

NYC Commission On Human Rights

New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection

New York City Department of Environmental Protection

New York City Department of Buildings

New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene

New York City Department of Sanitation

Fire Department of New York

Human Resources Administration

Mayor’s Office of Immigration Affairs

New York Police Department

Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings

New York City Department of Transportation

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