New York City Department of Small Business Services

Small Business Week Celebrations include 5-Borough Resource & Culinary Tour Culminating in Little Yemen

By SÍLE MOLONEY
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


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Doing Business With the City

  A REP WITH New York City Department of Small Business Services (SBS) (left) helps a local merchant become certified to contract with the City at an open house held at Lehman College in Bedford Park, contributing to the City’s goal of having 9,000 minority and woman-owned businesses certified to do business with the City by 2019. The $16 billion in contracts committed to these businesses is backed by Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Office of Minority, Woman-owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) and the SBS. Photo by Daniela Beasley