‘Plight’ of small businesses felt across New York City整个纽约市的小企业都感受到了困境”New York City has many small businesses, but a business expert says city government often hasn’t a clue about their problems.

纽约市有很多小企业，但一位商业专家表示，市政府往往对这些小企业的问题一无所知。

According to Thomas Grech, executive director of the Queens County Chamber of Commerce, The city doesn’t get the challenges of small businesses, such as paying a minimum $15-an-hour wage.

It just thinks of small businesses as something to tax.

”据昆士县商会执行主任托马斯·格雷奇(ThomasGrech)称，该市没有遇到小企业的挑战，比如支付最低每小时15美元的工资。

它只是把小企业看作是要征税的对象。

”The problem, Grech added, is that most city officials have never run a business and have no understanding of how it works.

格雷奇补充说，问题在于，大多数城市官员从未经营过企业，也不了解企业是如何运作的。

They don’t know what it’s like to meet a payroll and how to pay exorbitant medical costs.

” He lamented that small businesses don’t have the lobbying power to organize.

他们不知道支付工资和支付高昂的医疗费用是什么感觉。

”他哀叹小企业没有组织游说的权力。

Dr.

Nabil Salib, a doctor who recently established the myDoc Urgent Care Center in Forest Hills, said that lower taxes and rents” are needed.

The city, he added, should also promote low-interest business loans.

最近在Forest Hills建立了myDoc紧急护理中心的医生Nabil Salib博士说，需要降低税收和租金”。

他补充说，该市还应促进低息商业贷款。

The casualties keep coming.

Metropolitan Pharmacy, a Queens stalwart, is closing its doors for good Monday after 40 years.

Its owner, Ira Lisogorsky, blames regulatory and city policies, among other factors.

Metropolitan’s demise comes about a year after the death of another popular Queens small business, Ben’s Best, a 73-year-old kosher deli in Rego Park.

受冲击的小企业还在不断增加。

皇后区的中坚力量大都会药房(Metropolitan Pharmacy)在开业40年后，将永远关闭。

其所有者Ira Lisogorsky将其归咎于监管和城市政策等因素。

大都会百货的倒闭发生在皇后区另一家颇受欢迎的小企业Ben 's Best倒闭一年后。

Ben 's Best是Rego Park一家73岁的犹太熟食店。

Ben Best’s owner Jay Parker said the city’s new traffic plans hurt his business, reducing Queens Boulevard parking spots by 200 and creating more bike lanes but also making it difficult for elderly customers to get to Ben’s.

本•贝斯特的老板杰伊•帕克(Jay Parker)说，纽约市的新交通计划损害了他的生意，现在皇后大道的停车位减少了200个，取而代之的是更多的自行车道，这就使得老年人很难到达本的停车场。

City officials defended the changes, saying the area had many buses and subways.

市政府官员为这些改变进行了辩护，称该地区有许多公共汽车和地铁。

Asked about Metropolitan Pharmacy’s plight, a city official said the city does care about small businesses.

当被问及大都会药房的困境时，一位市政府官员表示，该市确实关心小企业。

The NYC Department of Small Business Services (SBS) says the city has some 230,000 small businesses, defined as an establishment of 125 employees or less.

An SBS spokeswoman said commercial rents and the growth of e-commerce are the biggest reasons small businesses fail.

纽约市小企业服务部(SBS)表示，纽约市拥有约23万家小企业，即125名或更少的雇员。

SBS的一位发言人说，商业租金和电子商务的增长是小企业倒闭的最大原因。

We want small businesses to survive,” she said, adding that SBS launched a Web portalspecifically to help small businesses.

她说:我们希望小企业能够生存下去。

”她补充说，SBS推出了一个专门帮助小企业的Web门户。

Among the services SBS officials offer is a commercial lease program connecting small business owners with free legal services with a dedicated attorney.

The free legal services include help negotiating a lease, resolving landlord issues, responding to an eviction notice and negotiating a lease renewal, SBS officials said.

SBS官员提供的服务中包括一个商业租赁项目，该项目为小型企业所有者提供免费法律服务，并由一名专职律师提供服务。

SBS官员表示，这些免费的法律服务包括帮助协商租约、解决房东问题、回复驱逐令以及协商续约。

These services are designed to reduce the burden of bureaucracy and promote equity of access for the city’s over 230,000 small businesses,” said SBS Commissioner Gregg Bishop.

SBS专员GreggBishop表示，这些服务旨在减轻官僚主义的负担，促进该市23万多家小企业的公平准入”。

City officials said that among the various help services for small business that can be found through its SBS portal are a network of seven NYC Business Solutions centers across the five boroughs, which offer free business courses in multiple languages.

市政府官员说，可以通过SBS门户网站找到的各种小型企业帮助服务中，有一个由纽约市五个行政区的七个商业解决方案中心组成的网络，提供多种语言的免费商业课程。

The centers feature instruction in marketing, social media strategies, e-commerce and Web site fundamentals to help small businesses better market themselves in today’s economy.

该中心提供营销、社交媒体战略、电子商务和网站基础知识方面的指导，帮助小企业在当今经济形势下更好地营销自己。

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