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NYC Mayor Announces New Initiatives to

Cut Red Tape for Small Businesses

OUR BUREAU
NEW YORK, NY
ew York City Mayor Eric Ad-
ams and New York City De-
Npartment of Small Business
Services (SBS) Commissioner Dy-
nishal Gross have announced a pack-
age of initiatives designed to help en-
trepreneurs start, operate, and grow
their businesses even further. “Small
Business Forward 2.0” will be an up-
date to the successful “Small Business
Forward” initiative, launched in the
first week of the Adams administra-
tion, to bring together cross-agency ex-
perts to identify reforms that promote
entrepreneurship, support existing
small businesses, and encourage the
formation of new small businesses. To
reduce burdens on restaurants, Mayor
Adams announced the New York City
Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene (DOHMH) is modifying its
notification procedure to give restau-
rants enough time to review their prac-
tices, take any steps needed to make
improvements, and meet the highest small businesses and facilitated over vision first laid out in 2022, which has ation, with one in five having opened
food safety standards for New Yorkers $300 million in financing to small led to our city’s remarkable post-pan- during the Adams administration. Amid
— ensuring business owners have pre- businesses — allowing us to create a demic recovery by further cutting red growing pressures on small business-
dictability when interacting with city strong economic and business envi- tape, making government work better es and broader economic uncertainty,
agencies and are meeting their require- ronment that has broken the all-time for entrepreneurs, and expanding ac- Mayor Adams’ updated plan will cut
ments. Additionally, Mayor Adams jobs record 11 times,” said Mayor Ad- cess to affordable financing through red tape, expand access to flexible and
announced that applications are now ams. “Today, we are building on this the ‘NYC Future Fund.’” innovative financing, and build on his
open for the “NYC Future Fund,” the solid foundation with ‘Small Business “The New York City Department historic effort to reset the relationship
city’s first revenue-based loan program Forward 2.0,’ an updated plan that of Health and Mental Hygiene has between city government and small
designed to help businesses weather will continue to find areas to cut red been protecting New Yorkers for 220 businesses across all five boroughs.
fluctuations in revenue throughout the tape and ways to make it easier to years, and monitoring the safety of our To help restaurant owners achieve
year and boost their growth. have a thriving business in New York food has been a fundamental public the highest level of compliance with
The Adams administration has City. And with new, common-sense health practice for most of that histo- health and safety, restaurants will now
presided over a strong economic re- reforms to the health inspection pro- ry,” said DOHMH Acting Commis- receive two emails notifying them that
bound that has seen 183,000 small cess, we are giving our restaurants the sioner Dr. Michelle Morse. “As part of their restaurant will undergo an inspec-
businesses operate in the city, the predictability and clarity to navigate the Health Department’s expanding tion. The first email will be sent one to
highest-ever in New York City’s histo- government bureaucracy and ensure support for New York City restau- five months prior to the inspection, and
ry. One in five small businesses open they are able to do everything they can rants, we are pleased to announce the a second notice will be sent three to six
today started during the Adams ad- to comply with the highest health and enactment of a two email inspection weeks in advance of the inspection.
ministration. With 4.85 million total safety standards. Every day, we are notification systems designed to give These notifications will include infor-
jobs in New York City, the adminis- working to make New York City safer restaurants more time to review their mation and resources for restaurants
tration has broken the all-time high and more affordable, and the unprec- practices and more resources to make to make improvements and a list of
jobs record 11 times, recovered 100 edented steps we’ve taken to help our improvements to protect the health of everything a health inspector will look
percent of pre-pandemic private-sec- small business community thrive helps New Yorkers. We want every New York for so that restaurants can ‘self-inspect’
tor jobs, and added 6,700 total jobs in us continue to achieve these goals.” City restaurant to practice ‘A-grade’ and make improvements immediately
April 2025 alone. “New York City’s economy is food safety and meet the highest to better serve customers. The notices
“One of the first things we ac- driven by its small businesses and the food safety and health standards.” will also refer businesses to the “NYC
complished when we took office was New York City Small Business Ser- Small Business Forward 2.0 comes Business Express Service Team” (NYC
to announce a package of reforms to vices is committed to supporting them as the city celebrated its third annual BEST), which provides free, one-on-
cut red tape for small business owners with the tools and resources they need New York City Small Business Month, one compliance education in advance
who were struggling from the wake of to thrive,” said SBS Commissioner observed each May since 2023, and as of inspections and helps businesses
the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, Dynishal Gross. “‘Small Business For- the city has reached a new milestone of better understand city rules to save
we have supported a record 183,000 ward 2.0’ builds on Mayor Adams’ over 183,000 small businesses in oper- time and money, as well as avoid fines.

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