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Mamdani names small business czar

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Mayor Mamdani has chosen New York City’s small business chief. It's Kenny Minaya, a housing lawyer and longtime city official, as commissioner of the Department of Small Business Services. The department gives out grants and helps small businesses get through bureaucracy. It also oversees the city’s business improvement districts. The agency will be a critical factor in Mamdani’s plan to cut fines and fees on small businesses in half.

Janice Kirkel is a lifelong award-winning journalist who has done everything from network newscasts to national and local sports reports to business newscasts to specialized reporting and editing in technical areas of business and finance such as bankruptcy, capital structure changes and reporting on the business of the investment business.