Business
He’s hardly a magician, but Kevin Walters has pulled off a noteworthy sleight of hand: Growing revenues for his East Harlem-based restaurant and jazz club when many dining and nightlife establishments in the city are struggling.
He’s done it through a savvy word-of-mouth marketing campaign that’s attracted artists, tourists and jazz lovers from all over the [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Business’
October 31, 2009
Harlem supper Club stirs the pot
October 7, 2009
Small Business and the Economic Crisis
NY Times followed several small businesses in the New York area …
…to see how they are handing the recession.
September 25, 2009
Financial Literacy Workshop Series
Business
Institute for Urban and Minority Education
Teachers College, Columbia University
Cordially invites you to its new
Financial Literacy Workshop Series
Kick Off Event
Come meet financial planning expert and Harlem resident
Ms. Pamela Kuma
World Financial Group
as she launches her free workshop series for the Harlem community
Tuesday, September 29th 2009
6:30pm-8:30pm
Edmund W. Gordon Campus
Teachers College, Columbia [...]
September 16, 2009
Why did Tavern fail?
Business
Tavern on the Green has long been the twinkling landmark for the blowout bash, the marathoners’ carbo fête and the Mother’s Day brunch. Many New Yorkers found it corny, but the palace of dazzle was the only destination for visitors who inhaled Rockefeller Center, took in the Rockettes, then headed to Central Park for Tavern’s [...]
August 9, 2009
5 Bank Secrets You Should Know
Business
From Laura Rowley at Yahoo.com
Banks are squeezing customers with historically high fees and penalties, from overdraft charges to account service fees to new surcharges on foreign debit transactions.
But the pressures that have prompted the fee war with consumers started well before the financial meltdown, according to Jo Preuninger, a former management consultant who spent more [...]
August 6, 2009
No, USPS, but Plenty of Magic Happy Cakes
Business
The Way We Live Now: In the kitchen. New York City can no longer afford post offices, but the city is offering a million bucks for somebody to bake bread under the train tracks in East Harlem. Yea. Thanks.
Soon, there will be 14 fewer post offices in NYC. Who cares? You could save that stamp [...]
August 5, 2009
Tough Times for Post Offices in Harlem
Business
People have been complaining about the U.S. Postal Service for years. Rates rise and people scream bloody murder. The service announces a huge annual loss and people wonder at the incompetence. Still, despite the obvious problems, most folks just assumed the post office would always be around to whine about. Not so fast, Bucko.
August 5, 2009
City to launch culinary incubator
The Harlem-based facility will aid aspiring entrepreneurs when it opens next summer in La Marqueta, a city-owned retail market on Park Avenue.
The city announced today a plan to build a Harlem-based kitchen incubator that will help aspiring entrepreneurs launch bakeries, catering firms and other food manufacturing businesses.
July 27, 2009
Harlemite Owns Only Quiznos in Harlem
A native Harlemite, Robert Stevens, who opened the first Quiznos in Harlem, recently celebrated it’s 3rd anniversary.
It has long been a dream of the entrepreneur, event planner and former media sales support and revenue planner to open a business in Harlem and help the community by providing jobs, a quality product and good service. [...]
July 21, 2009
Get Ready To Be Back N Harlem
Business
Yes, N Harlem has finally moved to their new and larger location on Lenox Avenue between 126th and 129th Streets (right next door to the Halsted Real Estate company – see the green awning).
More news too come of it’s opening soon.
July 16, 2009
Ecko Puts His HQ On Market
Business
Urbanwear hotshot’s appeal wears thin as youths trade down
The large bronze rhinoceros statues grazing inside hip-hop clothing designer Marc Ecko’s massive 275,000-square-foot headquarters on West 23rd Street may soon be out of a home. The entire space, which costs more than $9 million a year and includes a half-size basketball court, is now on the [...]
July 9, 2009
5 Kinds of Stores Discounting Deeply
Business
Summer has just started, but retailers are already feeling the heat
Clothiers, restaurants and other vendors are wilting — and cutting prices — as they struggle to cope with a slowdown in consumer spending. The upshot for customers is a slew of deals across a variety of sectors.
For many stores, the situation is grim. The personal [...]
July 9, 2009
Carol’s Daughter In Harlem To Develop Products For Disney
Business
Before social marketing became synonymous with viral marketing, and opening her flagship store in Harlem there was a tactic called word of mouth. Old-fashioned word of mouth got Lisa Price, former television script coordinator, and her company, Carol’s Daughter, featured on B. Smith, The View and the brass ring of publicity, Oprah.
Carol’s Daughter is [...]
July 8, 2009
The Bonelli Group Presents To Greater Success
The Bonelli Group hosts the first in a series of professional development workshops on July 15th.
Come find out how to market yourself in today’s economic climate!
July 1, 2009
Vibe Magazine Closes
Business
Music magazine stalwart Vibe is folding, joining fellow publications like Blender and Radio and Records.
Vibe was no sure thing when it first appeared in 1992. “Convinced that hip-hop music is giving rise to the same kind of pervasive culture that rock-and-roll did a generation ago,” The New York Times reported that September that, “Time Warner [...]
June 19, 2009
Small Business In Harlem Getting A Break From City Hall
Business
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn unveiled an agreement with the Bloomberg administration Thursday morning on a trifecta of measures geared toward making it easier for small businesses in the city to launch and prosper.
Legislation will be introduced later this month to create a three-month penalty-forgiveness period for businesses and individuals with outstanding fines owed to [...]
June 16, 2009
Manhattan: Small Businesses In Harlem Take A Big Hit
Business
To many, talk of the recession might just mean a bunch of numbers, percentages or falling stock prices, but in the neighborhoods of New York City, its effects are very real. NY1’s Rebecca Spitz filed the following report on how the recession is hitting home in Harlem.
One shuttered store after another along 125th Street [...]
June 12, 2009
African Americans And The American Dream
As the current economic crisis has led Americans to re-evaluate their priorities, the American dream is, once again, being revised. For many, it is now defined first and foremost by financial security, followed by a greater emphasis on personal relationships – family, marriage and children.
According to The 2009 MetLife Study of the American Dream–the company’s [...]
June 1, 2009
Harlem Dealership Takes Its Place In History
Business (update)
The biggest industrial bankruptcy in corporate history kicked off on Monday with an early morning filing from a General Motors dealership in Manhattan’s gritty Harlem neighbourhood.
The stricken carmaker, although Michigan-based, chose the New York dealership because it needed to show that it was incorporated in the district where it wished to file for Chapter [...]
June 1, 2009
The Oprah Effect In Harlem And Beyond: Personal Finance
Business
Talk show superstar Oprah Winfrey is one of the most well known cultural and financial icons of our time. If you’re lucky enough to create a product she loves, a mention on her show just might make you a millionaire!
The Oprah Effect
Getting on the Oprah Winfrey show could be the biggest opportunity of someone’s life. [...]
May 30, 2009
Free Business Admisssion And GMAT Prep Session
Education
Business school applications are on the rise. Competition for admissions is keener than ever. So, why not step up your MBA game? Bell Curves and LEEDS Coaching have teamed up to present a free information session to get you ready for the exciting, yet challenging business school admissions process.
Akil Bello, co-founder and Vice President of [...]
May 11, 2009
Local Harlem Retailers Hit Hard By Recession
Business
Local business in Morningside Heights and Harlem has taken a hit by the year’s economic downturn, and many streets—with boarded up store fronts and fading signs of retail activity—have the scars to prove it.
The recession has tested the limits of the neighborhood’s retailers. With such a wide spectrum of businesses targeting specific, narrow markets, the [...]
May 7, 2009
Manage Your Time With Focus Days
Business
By Andrew Morrison
At this very moment, should you be reading this article? Have you allowed e-mails, books, newspapers and magazines to become a distraction? Is their something else you should be doing right now that can help to reduce your expenses or increase your profits?
The book of Ecclesiastes suggests, “There is a season for everything.” [...]
May 2, 2009
The Rangel Stimulus Package Conference
Business
From Elbert Garcia from Congressman Rangel’s Office
Harlem Stimulus Package Update
More than 500 community leaders joined Congressman Charles B. Rangel, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan and close to two dozen high-ranking federal, state and city government on April 27 to discuss how to best access federal stimulus dollars.
“Today is special because we [...]
April 30, 2009
Project Enterprise’s New Entrepreneurial Assistance Program
Business
On April 27th, 2009, eleven entrepreneurs were honored for the completion of Project Enterprise’s new Entrepreneurial Assistance Program (EAP). They were the inaugural graduates of the business plan training program which started this January.
April 29, 2009
Congressman Rangel’s Stimulus Package Update
Business
The video attached below is by Congressman Charles Rangel delivered as opening remarks regarding “Economic Recovery in Upper Manhattan” at the Upper Manhattan Economic Summit organized by Community Boards 9, 10, 11 and 12 on March 13, 2009.
In addition, we’ve attached a PDF of the Rangel-Stimulus-Guide.
And here’s a link to his appropriations request page.
April 23, 2009
Disney Crowns It’s First Black Princess
Business
Long ago and far away, she was an unnamed little princess in a little story called “The Frog Prince.” She and her amphibious friend lived in a very small, mostly forgotten corner of the [...]
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