I am just amazed at how you and your team, how serious you are about this and you having so much fun doing it. ![]() But today and every day he's our great Small Business Mayor, and so let's turn it over to Mayor Eric Adams. He's got the Get Stuff Done Mayor, he's sometimes self-proclaimed Nightlife Mayor. Finally, I just now want to turn it over to our mayor who goes by many titles. So, can we give him another shout and a round of applause. We have helped 2,200 businesses, unique businesses in the past year save over $22 million in fines and violations just by the work of our SBS NYC BEST team. We have a vegan cake here as well for the mayor later.Īnd Leidy is not alone. And you could see Leidy giving the loudest applause because she started…Ĭommissioner Kim: She started her catering business in 2018 and then in January she discovered our NYC Best team and she called us and she said, "I want to fulfill my dream of opening up my own retail store." And so what did our team do? They kicked into action, helped us with the licensing permitting process, got this beautiful store open in as quick of a time as possible, and that's why we're here to celebrate the grand opening today. I just want to point out and give a shout out to my NYC BEST team right here. That's the Business Express Service team. Finally, I'm here because we want to celebrate one of the initiatives that Mayor Adams and Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Springer came up with called NYC BEST. So, that's something that we want every New Yorker to understand that when you shop at Leidylicious, or if you shop at your local hardware store, local toy store, you are supporting your own community. Promote public safety, keep the lights on at the different stores. That's to support your neighbors, that's to support your community, your commercial corridors. Now, why it's so important for everyone to be supporting small businesses, data shows that if you spend $1 at your local mom and pop store, 70 cents of that circulates within that community. We encourage everybody to look on our schedule on our website and come and participate. We're going to have a workforce development fair up in the Bronx and so many more other programs. We're going to have a financing fair in Industry City in Brooklyn. Every day, we've got a packed schedule with Mobi, our RV there, where we go to meet small business owners where they are because they all can't come down to One Liberty Plaza for our services. And what we're going to do during this month is we're going to go to the five boroughs again. But this is New York City and five days is just not enough to highlight our small businesses, so we are declaring today, thanks to Mayor Adams, New York City Small Business Month. Last year, SBS went on a five borough, five-day tour to celebrate and commemorate National Small Business Week by bringing resources to immigrant communities in each of the five boroughs. Now, what does that mean? Nationally, we celebrate National Small Business Week, the first week in May. And we're also here to officially announce, for the first time ever, New York City Small Business Month. And why are we here today? We are here to celebrate the opening of another small business, Leidylicious Cakes. We've got the Queens Chamber of Commerce president, Tom Grech, and so many other leaders and advocates for small businesses. We've got Council Members Julie Menin and Lynn Schulman, whose district we're in today. We also want to acknowledge our other elected officials here, Queens Borough President Donovan Richards. This is a great time and the plan is working. We've gotten 33,000 businesses that have started up in the past year. We have almost 97 percent of all the jobs that were lost during the pandemic now recovered. Deputy Mayor Torres-Springer is the co-architect of the Economic Blueprint Recovery Program and mayor, deputy mayor, we have great news. It's truly an honor to be here today with Mayor Eric Adams, Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Springer. Kim and I'm the commissioner for New York City Department of Small Business Services. Commissioner Kevin Kim, Department of Small Business Services: Good afternoon, everyone.
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