NEW YORK CITY — More than 10,500 New Yorkers were placed in jobs through NYC Workforce1 Career Centers during the first half of 2009 — including 2,129 placements in Brooklyn, it was announced yesterday. This represents a {read more...}

The Department of Small Business Services and the Business Improvement Districts (BID) Association celebrated the accomplishments of the city’s 64 BIDs during the past 30 years at the Second Annual BID Conference held at Baruch {read more...}

Bisnow Plans Mid-Year Real Estate Update and Networking Event

Brooklyn realtors are encouraged to attend Bisnow’s “Mid_Year NYC Real Estate Update & Schmooze� Thursday, July 16, at the General Society Library in Manhattan

REBNY President Steven Spinola {read more...}

Compiled by Linda Collins
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

STUYVESANT HEIGHTS — Sustain Landscape Design, a Brooklyn-based company, is now offering sustainable gardens for those with yards.

The small business firm is owned and run by Stuyvesant Heights resident Nicole Brait, who says she can help Brooklyn homeowners turn their yards into thriving urban landscapes.

“Many Brooklynites think their yards are too small to have an interesting garden, or feel overwhelmed by the task {read more...}

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Robert Walsh, commissioner of the Department of Small Business Services (SBS), and Rex Davidson, president and CEO of Goodwill Industries of Greater New York and Northern New Jersey, recently celebrated {read more...}

The City Council voted on two pieces of legislation this week that will make life easier for small businesses.

The first of two bills will establish a three-month penalty forgiveness period for businesses {read more...}

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The ongoing crisis of rent spikes and unchecked land speculators slamming New York City’s small business community prompted dozens of small business owners and others from local chambers {read more...}

Brooklyn Allstate agency owner Joseph Coluccio has received the Regional Champion Award from Allstate Insurance Company for his “high standards in customer satisfaction, customer retention and profitable business growth.�

His agency is now one of the top Allstate agencies in the nation in auto, property, commercial, power sports insurance and financial {read more...}

Brooklyn native Harold M. Maurer, M.D., chancellor of the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), has been inducted into the Omaha Business Hall of Fame by the Greater Omaha Chamber of {read more...}

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — For the small business owner at a loss about how to adopt greener business practices, the Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) Thursday held a panel entitled “Green Solutions For Small Businesses,� sponsored by Con Edison.

The panel was moderated by Debera Johnson, the director of Pratt Design Incubator for Sustainable Innovation, and the Academic Dean of Sustainability at Pratt. Panelists were Catherine Barton, founder of NYIRN’s (New York Industrial Retention Network) Spec it Green {read more...}

SUNSET PARK – It was a sunny-side up tone at the Sunset Park Fifth Avenue Business Improvement’s 14th annual breakfast meeting as the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce leader spoke and awards were given for business and civic achievements.

“I vividly remember getting my back-to-school clothes with my parents shopping on Fifth Avenue,� said Chamber President Carl Hum, the keynote speaker, who grew up on 55th Street. The event was held on Wednesday in Our Lady of Perpetual {read more...}

By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Eagle

BAY RIDGE – On the avenue, Fifth Avenue in Bay Ridge, 29 new businesses have sprouted in the past 18 months despite the deep recession, a fact served and hailed at the Bay Ridge Fifth {read more...}

President Howe and the festival chair announced jointly that, “Green is {read more...}

Aflac New York is seeking more than 100 “self-motivated entrepreneurs� people to fill these positions this year.

A {read more...}