{"id":56198,"date":"2025-11-30T09:52:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T09:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/56198\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T09:52:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T09:52:18","slug":"scavenger-hunt-drives-bed-stuy-foot-traffic-on-small-business-saturday-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/56198\/","title":{"rendered":"Scavenger hunt drives Bed-Stuy foot traffic on Small Business Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bed-Stuy Gateway Business Improvement District kicked off Small Business Saturday with an art-involved scavenger hunt.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-two businesses along Fulton Street were involved. Shoppers were encouraged to visit each store and collect a card. Those cards were then entered into a raffle where the winners went home with Bose speakers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re bringing foot traffic to the businesses,&#8221; said Dale Charles, executive director of the Bed-Stuy Gateway BID. \u201cThis is a day we shop local, we shop small, we shop on Fulton Street.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce says there are 70,000 small businesses in the borough. However, many business owners told News 12 that they continue to struggle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlong with taxes and now tariffs \u2013 it really is a struggle, so we\u2019re just hoping there are some changes ahead,&#8221; said Monique Nicholas, owner of Nicholas Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>Shoppers will have two more chances to win on Saturday, Dec. 6 and Saturday Dec. 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bed-Stuy Gateway Business Improvement District kicked off Small Business Saturday with an art-involved scavenger hunt. Twenty-two businesses&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1149,4982,30396,4986,4987,98,100,99,969,12722,9,24,63,2990,14951,4799,2083,2780],"class_list":{"0":"post-56198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-art","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-artwork","11":"tag-bed-stuy","12":"tag-bedford-stuyvesant","13":"tag-brooklyn","14":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","15":"tag-brooklyn-news","16":"tag-holidays","17":"tag-local-businesses","18":"tag-new-york","19":"tag-new-york-city","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-small-business","22":"tag-small-business-saturday","23":"tag-small-businesses","24":"tag-tariffs","25":"tag-taxes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56198","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=56198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}