Much of this month’s activity centered on Bleecker Street with more openings than closings. Most people (myself included) thought it was gone, but according to Grub Street the owners managed to negotiate a payment plan for the taxes they owed. In other news, Café Loup reopened at the end of September after being closed for a week.
The SBJSA was first proposed in 1988 by Ruth Messinger when she was on the City Council. Corey Johnson, the City Council Speaker, seems interested in passing something, but he, along with other council members pointed out flaws in the current proposal. A large contingent from the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) also attended the hearing to oppose the bill. At a rally before the hearing, supporters of the bill spoke, including Andrew Berman from the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (GVSHP), and Jeremiah Moss, the author of the blog and book “Vanishing New York”. The SBJSA aims to address the fate of small businesses by ensuring that a business in good standing is guaranteed a 10-year lease extension, and if the business and the landlord cannot come to an agreement on the rent, then the case goes to binding arbitration. The big news this month was that the Small Business Jobs Survival Act (SBJSA) had a hearing at City Hall on October 22. Not so! We apologize for the misinformation.
Correction: in the September In & Out, we reported that Ghandi Café (283 Bleecker Street east of 7th Avenue South) appeared to have closed.
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