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Inside a family-owned Brooklyn bakery where they've been hand rolling cannoli the same way for 50 years

Fri, 05/08/2026 - 11:14

Tech Insider : Business

Food, video-to-text, Bakery, cannoli, brooklyn, baked-goods, Food

Making 300,000 cannolis a year by hand

Fri, 05/08/2026 - 08:23

Fortunato Brothers Bakery has been hand-making cannolis, cookies, and sfogliatelle in Brooklyn since 1976, using the same recipes the founders brought from Naples, Italy.

Food, Small Business, small-business, linkedin, cannoli, naples, Italy

Inside Brooklyn's Little Italy pasta shop that uses a machine over 115 years old

Mon, 05/04/2026 - 11:19

Tech Insider : Business

Food, brooklyn, Pasta, small-business, Food, restaurants, video-to-text

The ravioli king of Brooklyn making nearly $2 million a year

Mon, 05/04/2026 - 09:42

Tech Insider : Business, Style

George Joseph Switzer III runs Queen Ann Ravioli, a Brooklyn pasta shop founded in 1972. Inside, vintage machines produce thousands of pounds of pasta each week, including up to 2,000 boxes of ravioli a day.

Small Business, Video, small-business, Food, Pasta, Machines, Antiques

How one factory supplies NYC's corner store delis

Fri, 03/27/2026 - 18:03

Tech Insider : Economy, Business, Style

Bodegas are one of New York City's oldest and largest neighborhood institutions, with more than 10,000 spread across the city's five boroughs. But this century-old industry is fighting to stay alive under rising rents, cutthroat competition, and Zohran Mamdani's city-run grocery initiative.

Small Business, economy, culture, Food, Video, new-york-city, NYC

A new Brooklyn shelter offers unhoused families with kids a chance at more stability

Tue, 03/03/2026 - 04:44

Tech Insider : Economy, Business, Style

A playground that's part of the Westhab Family Center in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. — The Fort Greene Family Center, a Brooklyn homeless shelter, has 105 units for families with kids.
Courtesy of Westhab

economy, Real Estate, Homeless, homeless-shelters, brooklyn, new-york-city

Forget booking a sightseeing tour. I lived in New York for 20 years, and this $4.50 ferry is the best way to see the city.

Sat, 08/16/2025 - 07:37

Tech Insider : Travel, Business

A NYC Ferry traveling on the East River with the Manhattan Bridge and skyscrapers in the background. — As a longtime local, I think the NYC commuter ferry is the best way to sightsee in the city.
John Penney/Shutterstock

Travel, Freelancer, freelancer-le, amanda-shammas, new-york, nyc-ferry, ferry

health, as-told-to, teacher, middle-school, the-bronx, brooklyn

Boutique investment bank Moelis has placed a senior banker on leave after a video circulated online appearing to show him punching a woman

Mon, 06/10/2024 - 12:12

Tech Insider

A view of the skyline of Lower Manhattan and the buildings of the Financial District including the Trump Building as seen from the Hudson River on June 5, 2005 in New York, New York. — A senior Moelis employee has been placed on leave, the bank confirmed on Monday.
Tom Szczerbowski/Getty