Welcome
New Yorkers are passionate, creative, and resilient. Now more than ever, we need to put our varied talent and expertise to work to support and protect our vibrant small business community. To that end, we are relaunching Neighborhood Challenge as an open innovation platform to surface common business challenges and crowdsource solutions from technologists.
We aim to:
Connect the public, private, and nonprofit sectors and facilitate their collaboration;
Enhance the near-term recovery and long-term resiliency of small businesses;
Spur open innovation and creative problem-solving;
Pilot solutions at the local level that can be scaled or replicated; and
Foster the innovation ecosystem and tech talent in NYC.
Let's innovate together and make New York stronger.
Active Campaigns
Solutions - Storefront Business Campaign
Do you have ideas on how we can we leverage technology and the innovation community to support NYC's commercial districts and small storefront businesses, and help them recover and grow more resilient?
Number of Ideas: 45
Challenges - Storefront Business Campaign
NYC's commercial districts and small storefront businesses are facing severe impacts due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which threatens their survival. What specific challenges do you see your neighborhood commercial district and its small businesses experiencing during this difficult time?
Number of Ideas: 47Popular Ideas
Hyper Local Delivery of Retail &...
Amanda ZentenoRestaurants lose a tremendous amount of profit utilizing services such as grubhub, seamless and other delivery applic...
Net Votes: 20 Number of Comments: 18
Technology & Social Media Traini...
Lauren CollinsMany businesses in my districts don't have an online presence which could have helped cushion the blow from the curre...
Net Votes: 18 Number of Comments: 21
Reopening Challenges in COVID-19...
Brandon ZwagermanOnce businesses are allowed to open in some fashion post-PAUSE, forms of social distancing, testing, contact tracing,...
Net Votes: 15 Number of Comments: 8
Reopening Restaurants While Main...
Jonathan HawkinsThere will be a significant time period prior to a vaccine/elimination of the virus when businesses are allowed to gr...
Net Votes: 15 Number of Comments: 5