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3 Tips for Starting a Business in New York
Maybe you finally quit your corporate job, or perhaps you decided to move to NYC. Whatever the reason, starting a business in New York is an exciting endeavor. Here are 3 tips you need to know about getting your business up and running in the Big Apple. Know What You...
Downtown Highlights: Funny Face Bakery – Hilarious, Delicious, and A-dough-rable Cookies
Hilarious, Delicious, and A-dough-rable Cookies In this episode of Downtown Highlights, we visited Funny Face Bakery, where they make a variety of very detailed, hand-piped cookies. About Funny Face Bakery Funny Face Bakery was founded in 2016,...
Where Language-Learning Apps Come Into Serious Play
So many apps, yet only a few right ways to use them. Language-learning apps, from Duolingo to Babbel, have taken on a slightly ambiguous role for any individual seeking to learn a language. While in many ways they’ve broken down barriers of time, money, and...
Silverstein Properties Team Up for Back-Together-School Shopping
It's that time of year again, Shools In The National Retail Federation estimates that families will spend an average of $849 on back-to-school items, almost $60 more than last year when people rushed to set up classrooms at home. College students and their families...
Downtown Highlights: Classic Harbor Line
Somewhere, beyond the sea, Classic Harbor Line waits for thee. Welcome back to Downtown Highlights, the series in which we take the opportunity to “highlight” businesses in NYC, like Classic Harbor Line - your one-stop (shop? or should we say port?) for seeing the...
Downtown Highlights: BiCE Cucina – Here, You’re Family
BiCE Cucina Opens a New Location in Soho In this episode of Downtown Highlights, we visited BiCE Cucina, an authentic Italian restaurant that brings together hospitality and Northern Italian flavors. BiCE has two locations in New York City, Midtown and Soho. In this...
You Should Be Watching: CODA
Communication between teens and parents is notoriously tough. It has been fodder for hundreds of coming-of-age stories. CODA (2021), whose title is an acronym for “Child of Deaf Adult,” tells the story of a teenager whose parents and older brother are all deaf and her...
Downtown Q&A: Lauren Wilson, Founder of Luxury Consignment Platform, Dora Maar
In today's fashion landscape, influencers are everything. Influencers have become the new innovators and early adopters that oftentimes will take the place of major mavens from yesteryear, as the runway designers. The beauty of such fashion leaders on the tiny screen...
Downtown Q&A: Illusionist and Mentalist Matias Letelier
In 2011, magician and illusionist Matias Letelier followed the love of his life and now wife, Marlana to the United States. Her “souvenir from Chile”, as he calls himself, Matias became a proponent of the American dream. Since then, he has been practicing magic for 23...