Small Businesses Look To Albany For Rent Relief
Small Businesses Look To Albany For Rent Relief arrow Yeworkwoha Ephrem outside her restaurant Ghenet Beth Fertig / WNYC Before the pandemic, Yeworkwoha Ephrem paid $9,800 a month in rent for her Ethiopian restaurant Ghenet, in Brooklyn’s Park Slope. But after COVID-19 shut down the city in March, Ephrem said she wasn’t able to pay her landlord. Unlike other restaurants, she could not build a sidewalk dining space and said there weren’t enough deliveries and takeout orders to bring her business back to anything resembling normal. “I really felt guilty,” she s...
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