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Do You Want Your Business To Grow?
Was checking out our Community Boards (CB3) website and came across this business program offered by LaGuardia Community College and Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses initiative to help small businesses. While searching a little more, came across this video of some of the first businesses to participate in this program. Goldman Sachs states on their site that, [...]
Build a Library in Bed-Stuy
Join Stuyvesant Heights Montessori for an afternoon of Jazz and refreshments with Bed-Stuy’s own Grammy Nominated artist. $50 per person, and there will be an activity for the children with the Weeksville teaching artist for $5 per child. This event will be Sunday, June 12, 2011 – 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Weeksville [...]
1946 Red Cross Fund Drive
by Bill Bence of A Week in New York April 1946 The Journal-American reported that Bedford-Stuyvesant was the first Brooklyn community to attain its quota in the community appeal division of the 1946 Brooklyn Red Cross Fund Drive. Overall, the division had reached 65 percent of its $500,000 Brooklyn goal. Arlington had also reached the 100 [...]
Faulty Paperwork Foreclosures Hit Bed-Stuy
Interesting story by PBS News Hour on the mounting foreclosures. Patricia Antrobus who lives in a turn-of-the-20th-century house in the Bed-Stuy section of Brooklyn tells her story of foreclosure.
Final Chapter for Brownstone Books?
There has been some talk in the community of the possibly closure of Brownstone Books, 409 Lewis Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Today, we received an email from a reader stating this this might be true. The email is supposedly from the owner of Brownstone Books, Crystal Bobb-Semple. The email states that the closure will happen at [...]
Hiring Incentives (it’s about time!)
The State Department of Labor is promoting how a federal tax credit may convince employers to hire job seekers this year. Check out the full story by NY1
Protect Your Money!
The City partnered with five banks and five credit unions to offer the NYC SafeStart Account to all New Yorkers. The NYC SafeStart Account is a safe and affordable “starter” account. Their special features include: No overdraft fees No monthly fees, provided minimum balances are met Minimum balance requirements of $25 or less ATM Card [...]
$1,000 Reward
This economy has people getting real creative when it comes to finding a job. Check out this ad from craigslist. 1,000 REWARD for FINDING me a JOB at a GAMING COMPANY! $$$ (Anywhere in NYC!) A Reward of ONE THOUSAND AMERICAN DOLLARS can be YOURS if you help find me a JOB doing illustration, animation, [...]
Mismanagement Closes Head Start Program
Hundreds of Bedford-Stuyvesant families who rely on a federally funded free pre-kindergarten program may lose those day-care services. Bedford-Stuyvesant Head Start was told by city officials that, effective June 30, the group would no longer run the programs because of mismanaged funds – a charge the nonprofit says is wrong and unfair. Continue reading: Bedford-Stuyvesant Head [...]
Unbelievable: Free Room for Escort or Masseuse
Yes you read right. A feller by the name of Alex is renting out a room with a bed for free for an escort or a masseuse. Well I guess it’s really not for free. At the bottom of his ad it states “free for exchange of services”. According to his posting, google maps puts [...]
