A REP WITH New York City Department of Small Business Services (SBS) (left) helps a local merchant become certified to contract with the City at an open house held at Lehman College in Bedford Park, contributing to the City’s goal of having 9,000 minority and woman-owned businesses certified to do business with the City by 2019. The $16 billion in contracts committed to these businesses is backed by Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Office of Minority, Woman-owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) and the SBS.
Photo by Daniela Beasley