NEW YORK, NY \u2014 Mayor Zohran Mamdani appointed Delia Awusi as the city\u2019s first \u201cMom-and-Pop Czar,\u201d tasking her with helping small businesses navigate city government and expand.<\/p>\n
Awusi will work across agencies and report to Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice Julie Su, coordinating support for ultra-small businesses, family-run shops and long-standing neighborhood stores.<\/p>\n
\u201cMom-and-pop businesses give every block, every neighborhood, every borough its unique identity,\u201d Awusi said. \u201cOur smallest businesses have unique needs and now, they have a champion to look out for them in City Hall.\u201d<\/p>\n
The role centers on reducing hurdles small business owners face with permits, inspections and fines, while improving coordination between agencies, including the New York City Department of Small Business Services.<\/p>\n
Awusi brings more than a decade of experience supporting small businesses, including her work with the Business Outreach Center Network, where she provided financial counseling, technical assistance and access to capital for local entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n
She has worked closely with immigrant-owned and family-run businesses and is also a small business owner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK, NY \u2014 Mayor Zohran Mamdani appointed Delia Awusi as the city\u2019s first \u201cMom-and-Pop Czar,\u201d tasking her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-189699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-city-news","12":"tag-ny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}