Newsletter

July 1, 2020 Independence Day is a time to note our small business owners’ super-hero qualities. We have hundreds of independent Downtown business people working daily to provide services, meals, and products to the community. The essence of being a business owner in America has always been infused with independence and freedom. Never more than […]

June 24, 2020 Reopening continues to bring services back into our lives Westchester Nails it with Phase Three: Polishing resumes, Hair salons cut hair not hours, and Restaurants welcome back their diners—inside. This certainly has been a time when getting back to your roots was not about genealogy. Anyone who ever hid some grey is relieved as

June 17, 2020 Downtown Restaurants are serving it up outside Summer dining is coming back to Division Street and City will test a new program there What a joy it is to sit outside and be served again by a professional server. Did you ever think you would want a little breeze with your steak

June 7, 2020 As we usher in June, doors are Re-opening By supporting our Downtown businesses, we are helping everyone pivot into the next phases The trends are continuing to move favorably and this means that our NRBID merchants are hard at work adapting and making sure all is safe so that we diners and

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