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COVID-19 Assistance & Guidance for Businesses
As part of the City's commitment to spur economic growth, SBS has released The New Normal: Adapting Your Small Business Playbook, a handbook filled with tools, technologies, and strategies to help entrepreneurs stabilize their business, protect their staff and customers, and build and grow beyond the pandemic.
In conjunction with the playbook release, we are offering a multi-session workshop series run by business experts to help entrepreneurs stabilize their business, protect their staff and customers, and build and grow beyond the pandemic. Each session will cover topics from the playbook and will be accompanied by virtual classroom instruction and take-home exercises for business owners to maximize their learnings.
Additional Assistance and Guidance for Businesses
Select a topic, or press the enter key on a topic, to learn more.
Have questions about reopening your business?
Check out our NYC Business Reopening Guide and NYC Restaurant Reopening Guide to find out when and how you can safely reopen your non-essential business.
If you have any additional questions, you can call our hotline: 888-SBS-4NYC (888-727-4692).
Reopening Guidelines Webinars
Visit nycsmallbizcourses.eventbrite.com and search for "Reopening Guidelines" to sign up for an upcoming webinar to learn about State requirements, recommendations, and resources available to help businesses reopen in NYC.
Download our Reopening Guidelines Webinars flyer and share with other businesses.
View and download a copy of the presentation here:
Informacion sobre la reapertura de negocios | إرشادات لإعادة فتح الشركات | ববসাসমহ পনরায় খালা সিকত িনেদিশকা | 复工指导方针企业 | 企業復工指導方針 | Directives pour la réouverture des entreprises | Enstriksyon pou Relouvri Biznis | 계사업재개지침 | Рекомендации по возобновлению работы предприятий
Free Face Coverings for Small Businesses & Their Employees
If you are a small business with fewer then 100 employees looking to secure free face coverings for your employees, find a distribution partner located near you.
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and Other Reopening Supplies Marketplace
If you would like to purchase additional masks or other non-medical Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), the City has compiled a list of non-medical PPE manufacturers and suppliers. These companies are not endorsed by the City of New York.
Select a topic below for information to help you and your business, including tips to stay safe and prevent the spread of germs. This is a rapidly changing situation, visit the NYC Health website for up-to-date information, including FAQs for employers.
- Reopening NYC Businesses
- Overview of Executive Orders: New Rules from the City and State
- Information About Essential Businesses
- Hiring Assistance for Essential Service Businesses
- Childcare for Essential Workers
- Information for Essential Food Businesses
- Workplace FAQs
- Financial Assistance
- Legal Assistance
- Commercial Lease Support
- Insurance Guidance
- Government Contracts and Supply Chain Access
- City Agency Service Updates
- Official COVID-19 Information & Guidance from Utility Companies
- Donate or Sell Supplies, Food, or Funds
- Business Continuity Planning Checklist
- Business Planning Checklist for Pandemics
Paid Safe and Sick Leave
Get info for employers and employees, notice of employee rights, timekeeping tools, and more.
Get info for employers and employees, notice of employee rights, timekeeping tools, and more.
Get info for employers and employees, notice of employee rights, timekeeping tools, and more.
COVID-19 Citywide Information & Updates
Get the latest health guidance, resources for individuals, businesses, nonprofits, and ways to help.
Get the latest health guidance, resources for individuals, businesses, nonprofits, and ways to help.
Get the latest health guidance, resources for individuals, businesses, nonprofits, and ways to help.
Get your flu vaccine, NYC!
With COVID-19 still around, protect yourself from getting the flu and needing medical care.
With COVID-19 still around, protect yourself from getting the flu and needing medical care.
With COVID-19 still around, protect yourself from getting the flu and needing medical care.
