Small Business Sweeties: A City-Wide Initiative for Valentine's Day

BY Meatpacking BIDPUBLISHED 02.02.2023

This Valentine's Day, New York City is showing extra love and care to its local small businesses through the Small Business Sweetie initiative. The program, encouraging residents to shop local, highlights small businesses throughout the city and boroughs and encourages you to shop small for your sweetheart. Explore shops in Meatpacking along with other participating districts throughout the city, including:

  • Grand Street

  • NoHo BID

  • Church Ave. BID

  • Flatbush Ave. BID

  • Downtown Staten Island - SI Chamber of Commerce

  • Village Alliance BID

  • Bay Ridge 5th Avenue BID

  • Made in Queens (MiQ) / Queens Economic Development Corporation

  • North Flatbush Ave

  • FAB Fulton

  • Atlantic Avenue BID

  • Forest Avenue BID

  • Castleton Avenue Merchants Organization (CAMO)

  • Park Slope 5th Ave

  • Chinatown BID

  • GVCCC

  • Flatbush Development Corporation (FDC)

  • Morris Park BID (The Bronx)

Happy shopping, sweeties! #SmallBusinessSweetie

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