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In phases, our Downtown Businesses are Beginning to Re-open. Since it is still Spring, we hope for a “re-blooming” of business. As we all have been hoping for, Downtown New Rochelle qualifies for Phase One of the New York State Forward re-opening plan. Our retail merchants now will be able to begin take-out/curbside/in-store pickup/drop off sales.

May 22, 2020 We are Finding a Prism of Ways to Celebrate With the season upon us, our graduations, birthdays, memorials, engagements, weddings and Celebrations of Life are looking safer—and smaller. Yet any size event is made that much more memorable with food.  That’s why our Downtown Restaurants are stepping up to provide an international array

May 12, 2020 State and County Data to Guide City’s Reopening New Rochelle’s Downtown merchants have shown great tenacity and creativity in recent weeks as the unfolding pandemic challenged both personal and professional routines.  The lessons learned along the way will surely change “business as usual” for many merchants, enabling many to one day return

May 5, 2020 Doing good does good — for everyone involved. Downtown businesses contribute servicesto honor and help. In the midst of their own reinventions, so many of our businesses are contributing to the community. Quietly. They are cooking for thousands. They are donating meals to hospital workers, first responders, and families in need. They

April 28, 2020 New Rochelle’s famous retailing dynasty loses Lewis Cohen. Retailer Lewis Cohen’s family business began in the1800s and dressed the rich and famous for generations. There were many years when limousines would pull up to 525 Main Street and wait while the clients shopped. There is even a story about the City being

April 21, 2020 The Gift of Food: Downtown Restaurants Provide Bounty to Help our Community Funds contributed by our New Rochelle Downtown Developers are helping community agencies match people with many of our Downtown eatery Pros. Sometimes the creative solutions come in the most challenging of times. That’s what is happening as a number of

April 14, 2020 Karel Littman,Executive DirectorNew Rochelle Downtown Business Improvement District (NRBID)NewRochelleDowntownBID@gmail.com Our New Rochelle Downtown Business Owners are keeping it all going… so that our Community can keep going. Business’s commitment is shining through with a light on service, delivery and reciprocity. Whether it is that new prescription, an emergency tooth situation, the well-deserved,

April 6, 2020 Delivering, Restocking, Zooming — our Downtown Business owners are doing it all for you! And now, they are helping even more so — with a cell phone fix, a healthy shake, a yoga class, some drinks and the ease of a meal When it comes to change, our New Rochelle Downtown Business

March 30, 2020 Let’s Applaud our New Rochelle Downtown Business Owners Professionalism and dedication to New Rochelle and Community at its best For sure we can agree that they are professionals who continue to step up. You can see how swiftly our many New Rochelle Downtown BID Restaurant and Business owners and staff have ramped