The Changing Face of Mom and Pop: Local Streets - Global Cities

All across New York City we lament the closures of shops and restaurants that have become so ingrained in our day to day life they are part of very fabric of our existance.

Whether your favorite sandwich shop, the restaurant where you met your true love and the owner still remembers, the bar you freuquent with your friends and everyone knows your name, These are the establishments and the people that make NYC more than livable, it's why we call NYC not only the greatest city in the world. Yet our favorite places are under siege in the countless 'villages' of community we call home.

Small businesses make up 99 percent of all New York businesses. No longer the traditional mom and pop of our past, storefronters have to be more clever to be successful in today's NYC, and this need for assistance is not going unnoticed. From the suggestions outlined in the March 2015 Report Small Business Big Impact: Expanding Opportunities for Manhattan’s Storefronters organized by Manhattan Borough President @GaleABrewer to Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York, and the #SaveNYC initiatve, to the newly launch web series The Lo-Down investigating small business survival on the Lower East side, to Townsquared, the laser focus on saving NYC storefronters has never been sharper.

A microcosm of NYC storefronters from all over the world is Greenwich Avenue - a quaint, squint street that is literally off the grid and cuts across the landscape of the West Village in more ways than one. This Greenwich Avenue blog will celebrate the triumphs, changing paradigms, exciting news on our favorite street.

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