*Updated December 17, 2021* New York City is in the midst of a major spike in covid cases, as positivity rates have jumped from 3.4% to 6.5% in three days. Early data indicate that it is much more transmissible than previous strains, but the likelihood of serious outcomes is much lower than with previous strains—if […]
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Meet Home Maid NYC, a Black-owned, cleaning company based here in Brooklyn. Founded and run by the husband and wife team of Anthony and Alexis Davis, Home Maid NYC offers top-notch green cleaning services at affordable rates.
“Although coworking has been dramatically impacted by COVID-19 and the financial crisis, it’s likely to remain a viable and important alternative for a variety of user types in the years to come,” says Cushman & Wakefield in their August 2020 report, The Changing Role of Coworking Workplace Ecosystem. While that assessment is good news, Brooklyn […]
With NYC opening up, we are thrilled to welcome you back to BCL! Some folks have already resumed their regular workweek back at the office, but many of you are understandably cautious. We have made some design and operational changes to ensure everyone’s health and safety.
As business owners, we have a special obligation to rectify these historic wrongs by building a fairer, more just economic system. BCL will do this by focusing on three specific areas: capital, culture, and community.
Find a summary of BCL’s 2020 Health and Safety plan. It’s a set of operational, behavioral, and design changes we will be implementing as we begin to open up.
Through this difficult time for humanity, small business owners, and entrepreneurs, BCL still remains open. We’re here to serve and help you run your business! But given the social distancing mandate, we have also encouraged you all to work from home to slow the spread of the virus, and we’re so thankful to see our community come together and do what’s safe.
As New York City escalates the response to the spread of coronavirus, Team BCL is committed to being as timely, transparent, and safe as we possibly can in our management of the crisis. Here’s what we’re doing.
Dan Ichimoto’s interest in local Park Slope and Gownaus businesses brings us his latest project-in-progress, Corner Stories. BCL’s Neil Carlson interviewed Dan, a member since 2015, to give us more insight into his work, which he hopes to publish as a photography book one day.