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This article reports on vendors' expectations from the textile show to be held in New York City in October 2004. Several vendors said they were positive going forward, despite a war in Iraq, rising oil prices, a soft labor market and a decline in consumer confidence. Among the company's introductions is Cortina, soft windows made of woven cotton in an assortment of colors, including pink. Barry Leonard, president of the company Ex-Cell Home Fashions, is equally bullish, launching new product categories-window fashions, kitchen textiles and area rugs, and supporting it with a stronger sourcing network overseas and a new factory in China.

The article discusses the challenges facing the wholesale food market Hunts Point Terminal Market in the South Bronx, New York City. The 112-acre area is surrounded by a metal fence and the 1960s era-buildings give it a look of prison camp, which is a 2 billion dollars center of commerce. It supplies 60 percent of the city's fruit and vegetable needs. The redevelopment of the center is under discussion and merchants are opposing the new rules imposed by city's Business Integrity Commission.

The article reports that New York City-based grocers including Fairway Market have put up signs telling customers that the store no longer sells certain types of Chinese fish. Many shoppers say they are avoiding Chinese food altogether. According to some reports published earlier, there is abundant supply of tainted pet food, toothpaste, toys and tires from China.

The article discusses business-shattering developments in Queens, New York City. New York's neighborhoods are in a constant state of flux. People born abroad make up nearly 36% of the city's population and foreign tastes dominate many markets in ever-shifting patterns. It is part of what makes New York special and the entrepreneurs who serve it unique. It is estimated that easily two-thirds of the population in Queens is either first- or second-generation American. As a group of merchants who have been in business in Ridgewood for more than 30 years can attest, survival hinges on adapting quickly and not just to changes in clientele.

The article discusses the person, theatrical production, and the place that New York-based businesswoman Jennifer Oz LeRoy likes.

The article reports on the 700 million dollar month sale of the retail space in Fifth Avenue and East 55th Street in New York which measures 25, 000 square feet. It has the 10-block stretch below 59th Street for shoppers and merchants and an extraordinary 100 feet of frontage in the most expensive retail street in the country according to chairman Faith Hope Consolo of Douglas Elliman Real Estate.

The article reports on the efforts of WHEDco Inc. to enable shoppers and retailers rediscover Bronx's Crotona Park East in New York City. It states that WHEDco is working with local merchants to form the Southern Boulevard Merchant Association, and conducts a survey into the commercial vacancy rate on the boulevard. It notes that the association organizes several local campaigns, sponsors retail events and held raffles to drum up interest in the neighborhood.

The article reports on the opening of a huge 24-hour Laundromat at the commercial road, Throggs Neck section of the Bronx, New York City. It is opened inside an empty bank branch. But John Cerini, president of the Throggs Neck Merchants Association is against this opening because this is the third laundromat of the area. He opines that the association's objective is to open unique stores in this area that would be quite useful.

The article reports that after the ouster of its embattled executive director in late May 2010 by his board of directors, New York City officials and local merchants in upper Manhattan are scrambling to rejuvenate the moribund Washington Heights Business Improvement District. As reported, the ouster of Executive Director George Sanchez came after years of ever-louder and more numerous complaints by local business owners, residents and politicians.

The article reports on how small business groups and merchants in Bronx, New York City, are regrouping to start afresh after two incidents of fires that resulted in huge business losses. New York City's Department of Small Business Services (SBS) is working with nearly 20 businesses, expediting insurance claims, connecting merchants with legal aid and restoring utilities. Small merchants of the region have sustained heavy losses due to fires.

The article presents information related to the Chocolate Show that is held in Manhattan, New York City. The show has become a trend in the city. According to Linda Villano, co-founder of Queens, New York City-based SerendipiTea, the show is open to the public. Some people say that the show is expensive for a merchant.

The article reports that the New York City merchants are seizing the opportunity of opening up of the Chinese economy and importing Chinese wares. The charge has been led by New Yorkers born in China, men and women who are using their entrepreneurial ability, language skills and family contacts back home to import goods. Recent relaxations of the U.S. embargoes on a number of Chinese imports have helped, along with loosening of Chinese restrictions on exports. Now, crowds of Chinese customers, and, increasingly, non-Chinese consumers as well, find aisles crammed with a variety of foods from China, ranging from baby bok choy to canned oat congee to soybean milk pudding mix.

This article presents information on various events to be held in New York City. Church Avenue Merchants Block Association and Small Business Services will hold workshop on marketing basics on July 26, 2005 in Brooklyn. New York Entrepreneurs Network holds networking reception on July 26. Biba4Network and Bank of America Corp. will hold seminar on how to start business on July 27 in Brooklyn. NEXCO International Organization holds seminar on negotiating freight rates on July 27. RelationshipLink Business Advisors holds networking reception for business owners on July 27.

This article reports that a thriving fruit and vegetable market next to Yankee Stadium in New York City will soon be demolished to make way for a mall. But the 20-some merchants who sell the produce are seeking a new location together, believing that their businesses could founder if they break up. In March 2005, the merchants hired a lawyer and took the city to court to stall their eviction. A lobbyist for the merchants, Richard Lipsky, said that the merchants would be willing to drop the charge about the lease if they could find a common location for a new market, where they cater to immigrants from Africa, the Caribbean and Central America. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Herman Cahn asked a Columbia University professor of urban affairs, Susan Fainstein, to come up with a list of possible sites. She did, but the city's Economic Development Corp. rejected them all.

The article reports that business owners in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, New York have problem with street vendors as of December 8, 2003 because of lack of proper regulation of street vendors. The Manhattan, New York merchants complain that vendors are crowding already-congested sidewalks and are taking positions on previously prohibited streets. With rents along Fifth Avenue as high as $80 a square foot, according to Petbro Realty in the locality, these small merchants can ill-afford tickets and losing business to street vendors.

Merchants in the flower district of Manhattan, New York City are closing in on a deal to relocating their business. A 48-year lease has been drawn up for 155,000 square feet of space on the lower three floors of 636 11th Ave. The building, formerly leased by Global Crossing, appeals to flower sellers because it would allow them to create a unified market under one roof, rather than operate disparate buildings in an increasingly residential area, West 28th Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues.

Reports that family-owned business merchants and retailers have adopted traditional style of renovating their shops to attract customers in Lower East Side, New York. Old merchants who are refusing to adopt change; Joint efforts of merchants to retain their customers.

Recalls famous personalities in the retailing business in New York City. Citation of various high-profile retailers; Status of retailing business during 1950; Career developments of various merchants.

Mentions the New York City auction houses, Christie's and Sotheby's, and their civil settlement of a commission-fixing case. Ruling that $50 million of the settlement be paid in the form of transferable certificates, which reduce the sellers' commission on an item.

Mentions the New York City auction houses, Christie's and Sotheby's, and their civil settlement of a commission-fixing case. Ruling that $50 million of the settlement be paid in the form of transferable certificates, which reduce the sellers' commission on an item.

Reports that the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs have implemented rules requiring store owners in Chinatown with `stoop-line stands' to accept payment for goods only inside their stores. Details of rules; Why merchants are prohibited from using sidewalks to display goods; Impact of rules on businesses; Increase of real estate prices in Chinatown; Why prices have increased; Fines issued to merchants who ignore rules.

Reports on the formation of the Knickerbocker Merchants Association to deal with crimes and street vendors plaguing Knickerbocker Avenue in New York City. Creation of business districts which allows for the collection of funds to maintain sanitation and order; Importance of the survival of commerce in the area.

Reports on the controversy between vendors and store owners in Harlem, New York that has spilled over to Madison Avenue. Perception of merchants' abuse of Harlems' ethnic community; Security initiatives launched at area.

Reports on the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs' monitoring of storeowners found violating city codes by selling merchandise beyond the storefront line. Effort as part of cooperation between business community and consumer affairs department; Alfred Cerullo as consumer affairs designate.