Where to shop in Brooklyn on Small Business Saturday
When the holiday shopping season unofficially kicks off just after Thanksgiving each year, Black Friday gets a lot of buzz. There’s the incredible low, low, low prices, but also those wild videos of vast, ravenous crowds charging across sales floors at big box retailers that go viral. But for gift buyers eager to support local outlets, there’s Small Business Saturday.
A “small business” is defined as one with fewer than 100 employees, a qualifier that accounts for 98 percent of the 200,000 businesses in New York City. (Eighty-nine percent are “very small,” with fewer than 20 workers.) There’s no shortage of small businesses in Brooklyn, as they account for roughly 40 percent of all jobs in the borough, well above the city and state average of about 30 percent.
So while other shoppers desperately seek out bodily harm on Black Friday and sit with their eyes glued to their screens on Cyber Monday, here are some Small Business Saturday specials you can take advantage of this year across Brooklyn.
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View MoreNew York City’s most populous borough, Brooklyn, is home to nearly 2.6 million residents. If Brooklyn were an independent city it would be the fourth largest city in the United States. While Brooklyn has become the epitome of ‘cool and hip’ in recent years, for those that were born here, raised families here and improved communities over the years, Brooklyn has never been ‘uncool’.