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The fee turned up in September 2019, after Trump placed 25% tariffs on steel, and hasn’t gone away since. So far, the tariffs in force under both White Houses have cost Americans $79 billion, the nonpartisan Tax Foundation estimated this summer. The nation’s roughly 33 million small businesses employ nearly half the nation’s workers and generate more than 43% of the gross domestic product, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce estimates. “Whether we like it or not, Asia is the bike manufacturing hub of the world,” said Zagata, who raised prices by between 18% and 22% after the Trump tariffs took hold. San Diego-based entrepreneur Nichole MacDonald said profit margins for her patented, 10-pocket Sash Bag have been thinning in recent years as material and freight costs have jumped, and tariffs aren’t helping.

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☆ Inside a 1760 schoolhouse for Black children is a complicated history of slavery and resilience
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-01 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Ap-Live-Blog-Byline-Image.Png | The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

The museum, Colonial Williamsburg, also has identified more than 80 children who lined its pinewood benches in the 1760s. Colonial Williamsburg tells the story of Virginia’s colonial capital through interpreters and hundreds of restored buildings. 18th century nails shoved in between hand craved joints in the stairs leading up to the second floor of the Williamsburg Bray School. And those are the things that give you strength — to know what your family has come through.”Janice Canaday outside the Williamsburg Bray School on Oct 30, 2024. Last year, it was transported to Colonial Williamsburg, which includes parts of the original city.

Persons: Phoebe, Isaac Bee, Bee, John C, Clark, ”, Maureen Elgersman Lee, William, “, ” Lee, Janice Canaday, Elisha, Mary Jones, Canaday, ” Janice Canaday, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Bray, Virginia, Ann Wager, Jones, Ashby, Elizabeth Drembus, ” Drembus, Katie McKinney, “ Beg, ” Canaday, Wager Organizations: Williamsburg Bray School, Mary’s Bray School, Bray School, Bray, Colonial America, William, ” Locations: WILLIAMSBURG, Va, —, Virginia, Colonial Williamsburg, Aberdeen, Bristol, Williamsburg, London, Colonial, Germany, sheepskin

☆ After six years of tariffs, small-business owners aren't eager for more
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-01 | by ( Alexandra Byrne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

The fee turned up in September 2019, after Trump placed 25% tariffs on steel, and hasn't gone away since. Small-business owners have already been facing tariffs on billions of dollars of goods, most of them from China, implemented by Trump in 2018. So far, the tariffs in force under both White Houses have cost Americans $79 billion, the nonpartisan Tax Foundation estimated this summer. The nation's roughly 33 million small businesses employ nearly half the nation's workers and generate more than 43% of the gross domestic product, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce estimates. "Whether we like it or not, Asia is the bike manufacturing hub of the world," said Zagata, who raised prices by between 18% and 22% after the Trump tariffs took hold.

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☆ From Wingman to Main Man
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-11 | by ( Sadiba Hasan | More About Sadiba Hasan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On a night out in July 2017, Wilson Payamps was playing wingman for a friend who thought Cameron Hall Kirk was cute. Mr. Payamps approached Mr. Kirk on behalf of his female friend. But Mr. Kirk threw a wrench in that plan by informing Mr. Payamps that he was gay. “I put all my cards on the table right away,” Mr. Payamps said. Mr. Kirk, who was 23 at the time and had just graduated from High Point University in North Carolina with a bachelor’s in business, struggled with dating.

Persons: Wilson Payamps, Cameron Hall Kirk, Payamps, Kirk, Mr, ” Mr, “, ” Organizations: Brooklyn Mirage, High Point University Locations: East Williamsburg, North Carolina

☆ It started with an informal pick-up game. Now, this organized soccer club is a lifeline for many asylum-seekers
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-21 | by ( Zoe Sottile | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

But the Newcomers Football Club, an impromptu team made up of asylum-seekers, has helped provide him with a joy that erases his stress. And they were looking for a place to play soccer – an almost universal cornerstone of their daily routines back home. Leonard had never worked with refugees or asylum-seekers before, and he had never played soccer. In the months since, the ad-hoc project has ballooned from an informal pick-up game to an organized club that competes with other New York teams, joining forces with another similar project started by co-organizer Avram Kline. The mixed practices help Newcomers FC members meet new people and practice their English, Leonard says.

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The addition of Gabbard is particularly notable given the tense exchanges she had with the vice president during their 2020 race that left Harris rattled. Trump’s team has been sketching out potential responses on reproductive rights with the expectation Harris will make that a focus during the debate. The Trump campaign has insisted the matter is settled. Thus far, no one is expected to sit in for Harris, just as no one played Biden ahead of the June debate. It’s the second time the vice president will visit the city this week after campaigning with Biden on Labor Day.

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☆ How the CIA tries to recruit Russians to spy on their country
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-30 | by ( Cnbc.Com Staff | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

At the CIA's covert training facility near Williamsburg, Virginia, commonly called "The Farm," recruits are trained in the world of espionage and the many ways to get people to provide secret information. "We are in the head-hunting business, as we call it," Olson said. "We have to find individuals that we can induce to cooperate equally with us to give us their secrets." After Klyushin was arrested in Switzerland by U.S. authorities, one of the claims his lawyer made was that American intelligence officers had attempted to recruit Klyushin as a spy for the U.S. upon meeting him for the first time. However, as Olson explained to Javers, the way that intelligence officials approach that process is far different, something that he called "the recruitment cycle."

Persons: Jim Olson, —, Eamon Javers, Olson, Javers, Vladislav Klyushin, Klyushin Organizations: Counterintelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, CNBC Senior Washington Locations: Williamsburg , Virginia, Moscow, Russian, U.S, Switzerland, American

☆ New York Italian Food Is Getting Weird (in a Good Way)
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-30 | by ( Ella Quittner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On a recent Friday at Daphne’s, a new Italian restaurant in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, the red sauce was green, made from chartreuse-colored tomatoes and a splash of vodka. The lasagna came in the form of noodles fried into chips, broken over a dish of beef tartare topped with shoyu-cured egg yolk. There was a Milanese cutlet, but its crisp carapace swaddled swordfish, not veal. And the booths were neither rustic and wooden nor wrapped in red vinyl; the place’s co-owners, Gary Fishkop and Paul Cacici, had instead installed banquettes covered with custom-made buttery-soft spearmint green leather. Farther east in Brooklyn, at Marie’s in Bushwick, the James Beard-nominated chef Miguel Trinidad serves chopped cheese ravioli the size of drink coasters and lamb patty white ragù.

Persons: Gary Fishkop, Paul Cacici, James Beard, Miguel Trinidad Organizations: Carota, Memphis Group Locations: Daphne’s, Brooklyn’s Bedford, Stuyvesant, Milanese, Williamsburg, Carbone, Greenwich, Gowanus, Brooklyn, Marie’s, Bushwick

☆ John Hinckley Jr. and the Madness of American Political Violence
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Mark O Connell | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The federal court that granted his release did so on certain conditions. In 2022, not long after his mother died, the last of those restrictions were lifted. Hinckley had by then opened a Twitter account and amassed thousands of followers. !” His following grew, and he quickly began to use his platform to release music and promote upcoming gigs. But every single one of them was canceled before he could play, as a result of backlash, including anonymous threatening emails, received by the venues.

Persons: Ronald Reagan, Jodie Foster —, John W, Hinckley Jr, Jo Ann, Hinckley, Ronald Reagan —, Timothy McCarthy, Thomas Delahanty, James Brady Organizations: Secret Service Locations: St, Washington ,, Williamsburg, Va

☆ I moved from New York to Maine 4 years ago. I'm still surprised at how friendly people are and how far away everything is.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-14 | by ( Conz Preti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

At the time, my husband, our 2-year-old, and two dogs were already living in a cramped one-bedroom apartment in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Here are the things that surprised me from moving from New York City, to Portland, Maine. Everyone is so friendlyMainers have a reputation for being friendly, but I was still surprised by how friendly people were when we first moved here. We have friends with kids the same age as ours but also intergenerational friendships with older people in the community. Living in Maine has left me wanting more cultural events to attend.

Persons: —, hasn't, we've, who've, I'm, it's Organizations: Service, Business Locations: Williamsburg , Brooklyn, Maine, New York City, Portland , Maine, South America, Buenos Aires, Portland, New York, Boston, Bangor

☆ They Hit Their Health Care Deductible. It Was Time to Party.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-10 | by ( Connie Chang | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

After a fruitless call with the pharmacy, Mr. Goldstein, a comedian and writer who lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., went for a walk to clear his head and had to sit down. “I went into a complete panic state,” Mr. Goldstein, 32, said. He had become used to wrangling with health care companies over billing mistakes and coverage ever since he was diagnosed with the condition as a teenager. Mr. Goldstein only managed to resolve the matter with CVS after months of calling the pharmacy three times a week. This year, after he hit his insurance deductible, he decided to celebrate by throwing a party.

Persons: Ian Goldstein, Goldstein, “, Mr, “ There’s, ” Organizations: CVS, Brooklyn Art Haus Locations: Brooklyn, N.Y, Williamsburg

☆ Moped-Riding Thieves Frighten Diners at Upscale N.Y.C. Restaurants
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-05 | by ( Maia Coleman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Just 20 feet away, a man wearing a mask brandished a gun in the crowded dining room and with a henchman grabbed two phones and a watch from three men at a table near the front door. Diners dashed into the kitchen. Chairs toppled. The perpetrators quick-walked out and fled on a moped, leaving behind a half-empty dining room where a handful of unfired bullets had fallen to the floor. The stickup took less than 40 seconds.

Persons: Gabe Thomas, Shirley Yu Locations: Williamsburg , Brooklyn

We Counted 22,252 Cars to See How Much Congestion Pricing Might Have Made This MorningToday would have been the first Monday of New York City’s congestion pricing plan. We sent 27 people to count vehicles manually at four bridges, four tunnels and nine streets where cars entered the business district. In total, we counted 22,252 cars, trucks, motorcycles and buses between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. on Monday. But it does give you a rough sense of scale: It’s a lot of cars, and a lot of money. had planned to use the congestion pricing revenue estimates to secure $15 billion in financing for subway upgrades.

Persons: Kathy Hochul, Noah Throop, Ruru Kuo, It’s, Franklin Organizations: Gov, New York Times, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Tunnel, Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge, manhattan, Williamsburg Bridge, Battery Locations: York, Lexington, St, Queens, Midtown, Tunnel manhattan, Holland, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Bridge Brooklyn, Williamsburg

☆ A Gen Zer who moved to Indianapolis, where she pays less than $1,700 in rent, shares the pros of living in 'a big city with small-town charm.'
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Madison Hoff | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

She also resided in New York City, and she has studied abroad and worked in Italy. Now working and living in Indianapolis, Ball doesn't see herself leaving this Midwest city soon. With a population of over 800,000, Ball finds Indianapolis is "a big city with small-town charm." "There was just something really charming about the city," Ball said. Courtesy of Milan BallShe does miss getting around via subway in New York City and finds it tough not having a car to get around in Indianapolis.

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And they were everywhere, although, naturally, New York City was a magnet, as it has always been for L.G.B.T.Q.+ people looking for a place in which they can be themselves. New York City was where you lost your soul, and we wanted to be closer to the earth. I wore an eight-and-a-half-foot-tall Statue of Liberty costume to the Easter Parade in New York City, and Kirsten came along with me. By the time I turned 30, I’d been telling people I was older for years, because I’m not the type to bemoan the loss of my youth. Going to New York felt like this moment of emerging to a wider audience, and then I started to travel a lot.

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☆ Delivering food on an e-bike or moped is a deadly endeavor in New York City
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( Eliza Relman | Madison Hoff | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

New York City delivery workers who don't use cars have one of the deadliest jobs in the city. There are now more than 65,000 app-based restaurant delivery workers in the city, and about 80% of them use e-bikes and motorbikes. The city report found that 28.7% of e-bike or moped delivery workers experienced injuries that forced them to miss work, lose consciousness, or seek medical care. They're asking for wider protected bike lanes, or even separate lanes for e-bikes and mopeds, and charging facilities for e-bikes. Indeed, "New Yorkers are dependent on app delivery workers to keep them safe and fed during times of crisis," she added.

Persons: —, takeout, Eric Adams, it's, Jose Alvarado, Andrew Lichtenstein, Brad Lander, Uber, DoorDash —, Ligia Guallpa, Guallpa, DoorDash, Guallpa's, Lander Organizations: Service, Business, Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bloomberg, Yorkers, New York Times, Department of Transportation, Getty, City, York, Workers Justice Locations: New York City, York, New York, South Bronx, York City, City, Manhattan, Williamsburg , Brooklyn

☆ I wanted my kids to play more independently. This play couch might be the answer to that.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-01 | by ( Conz Preti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Related storiesWhen I got an email saying a new play couch called the Chunk was coming out, I was intrigued. One of the first things I bought after we moved was the Nugget, a coveted play couch that kept selling out drop after drop. Courtesy of the authorWe set the Nugget up in my oldest kid's room, thinking he'd be more into building forts. The author's kids play on the Chunk for hours Courtesy of authorThat doesn't happen around here often because my kids are always playing with it. This play couch is magic.

Persons: —, I'm, it's, he'd Organizations: Service, Montessori, Crafts, Business Locations: Brooklyn, Maine, Williamsburg

Wai and Hui rent a two-family house with Hui's parents. Photo by CNBC Make ItWhen the lease was up on the couple's apartment, Hui's parents knew about a two-family house in Bensonhurst that was available for rent. The average size for a Brooklyn, apartment is 660 square feet, and the average monthly rent is $3,558 a month, according to RentCafe. Wai and Hui live upstairs while his parents live in their own apartment downstairs. The couple pays $1,600 a month to live in the one-bedroom, one-bath apartment on the second floor, while Wai's in-laws pay $1,900 and live on the first floor, according to documents reviewed by CNBC Make It.

Persons: Vionna Wai, Chucky Hui, Hui, Wai, Mickey Todiwala, He's Organizations: CNBC Locations: Sunset, Brooklyn, N.Y, Bensonhurst, Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Manhattan

☆ America's Surge of Dumb Neighborhood Names, Real-Estate Rebrands
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-22 | by ( James Rodriguez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Neighborhood names are also shorthand for your rent or mortgage payments. In 2017, real-estate brokers in the historically Black New York neighborhood of Harlem sparked backlash when they tried to rebrand its south end as SoHa. At their best, new neighborhood names bring people together over a shared sense of pride in their little corner of the world. Along the way, these neighborhood names have veered into parody territory. I'm not saying that neighborhood names should be set in stone — in fact, I think it's natural for them to evolve alongside their populations.

Persons: you've, MoRA, Nashville's, they're, Let's, Gill Holland, Holland, Nestor Davidson, David Fagundes, Grant McKenzie, McKenzie, Hakeem Jeffries, Jeffries, Davidson, They're, Bob Dylan's, Marshall, Lily, I'm, Willy, Dirtbag, Little Italy — Organizations: Market, McGill University, University of Maryland, Houston, Financial, Tribeca, McGill, Google, Democratic, New York State Assembly, New York Times, Apple, North Arts District, Congress, Little Locations: Denver, Charlotte , North Carolina, LoSo, Boston, Louisville , Kentucky, NuLu, Austin, America, New York City, Louisville, Holland, North Carolina, Greenwich, Louisville's, Phoenix, Holland's, York, New York, Manhattan, Side, Chelsea, Maryland, Harlem, SoCo, Soho, Dowisetrepla, Charlotte, East Williamsburg

☆ Look inside the last lofts of New York City's artists, shielded 40 years ago from the city's soaring rents
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-04 | by ( Dan Latu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

In a new book, photographer Joshua Charow documents the rich history of New York City's artist lofts. Protected by the Loft Law, a generation of artists were able to preserve their live-work spaces. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. One factory in Brooklyn's South Williamsburg held his fascination as he discovered the raw, eclectic live-work spaces of artist's lofts. He soon discovered he was "ten years too late" — all the lofts were taken by tenants living under New York City's historic Loft Law, protections for loft tenants passed in the early 1980s.

Persons: Joshua Charow, —, Charow Organizations: New York, Loft Law, Service, Law, Business Locations: New, New York City, Brooklyn's South Williamsburg, New York

☆ New Rule for Buying a Home: Fire Your Real-Estate Agent
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-18 | by ( Albert Fox Cahn | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

She had never purchased a home, and as a lawyer, I just assumed I knew how the system worked: The buyer has an agent, but the seller pays a commission (typically 6% of the sale price) that's split between their agent and the buyer's agent. So my agent wasn't going to find me my dream house, and the work of hunting was basically on me. But the real-estate industry has made it hard for many buyers to understand just how little having an agent can help. The class-action settlement with the NAR is going to make it a lot harder for sellers to be forced to pay for buyers' agents. Going forward, for people like me without an agent, a savvy seller may pay just 3% of the sales price to their own agent instead of 6% to be split with a buyer's agent.

Persons: it's, vouched, Obvious, Stephen Brobeck, Alice, Wonderland, I'd, I've, —, cosmically, Brobeck Organizations: National Association of Realtors, Hunger, US Department of Justice, Realtors, Consumer Federation of America, New York City, NAR Locations: Brooklyn, New York City, McCarren, Williamsburg, New York

☆ Miki Agrawal has moved on from Thinx. She hopes you have, too.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-10 | by ( Claire Landsbaum | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +23 min

Agrawal, a 45-year-old serial entrepreneur who founded the period-underwear company Thinx and the bidet startup Tushy, has always poured herself into her businesses. That July, Agrawal gave birth to her son, Hiro Happy Horn Agrawal. AdvertisementAfter leaving Thinx, Agrawal, pictured here in her Texas home, poured her energy into her bidet startup Tushy. Before Thinx, before Tushy, Agrawal was an analyst at Deutsche Bank, working in an office near the World Trade Center. In 2011, she cofounded period-underwear company Thinx with her twin sister, Radha, and a friend, Antonia Saint Dunbar.

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☆ I tried out the new smart mirrors in H&M's fitting rooms in Soho. I liked the freedom it gave me, but I see room for even greater potential.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-06 | by ( Ana Altchek | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

H&M's fully launched smart mirrors in fitting rooms at its new Soho location in New York City. The smart mirrors scan the items you bring in the room and shows a virtual display on the mirror. AdvertisementH&M's new Soho store in New York City is the first to fully launch smart mirrors in its fitting rooms. The smart mirrors in Soho identify customers' items, provide product recommendations, and let customers request different sizes or colors from the fitting room. H&M implemented the smart mirrors after announcing the new technology in 2022 and testing a previous model at an H&M Williamsburg pop-up location.

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☆ Increasingly popular 'high-functioning' label uses success at work or in school to mask poor mental health, psychologist says
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-30 | by ( Aditi Shrikant | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

On TikTok you'll find millions of users diagnosing themselves using the term "high-functioning" — high-functioning anxiety, high-functioning depression, high-functioning autism. The term "high-functioning" isn't actually clinical, but, generally, it refers to those who perform well in work and in school. So if someone has high-functioning depression, it means they are excelling at their job, despite being in poor mental health. "After Covid, the focus on mental health has been much more significant," she says. And experts believe it might signal a shift in how we believe mental health presents.

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☆ 'High-functioning anxiety' is trending on TikTok: What it is and 3 signs to look out for
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-28 | by ( Aditi Shrikant | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

"High-functioning" isn't clinically defined, says John T. Maier, a psychotherapist in Cambridge Massachusetts, but generally it refers to those who perform well in work or in school. So if someone has high-functioning anxiety, it means they are excelling at their job, despite being in poor mental health. "When people say 'high-functioning,' they aren't saying, 'I'm doing a great job at raising my family' or 'I'm doing a great job at going to church,'" he says. "It means 'I'm doing a great job at work.'" Here are three signs you might have high-functioning anxiety.

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