GoNyack Community Resource app for iPhone and iPad

1. Protect Local Character and Prosperity
Nyack is unlike any other city in the world. By choosing to support locally owned businesses, you help maintain Nyacks diversity and distinctive flavor.

2. Community Well-Being
Locally owned businesses build strong neighborhoods by sustaining communities, linking neighbors, and by contributing more to local causes.

3. Keeping Dollars in the Local Economy
Your dollars spent in locally owned businesses have three times the impact on your community as dollars spent at national chains. When shopping locally, you simultaneously create jobs, fund more city services through sales tax, invest in neighborhood improvement and promote community development.

4. Local Decision Making
Local ownership means that important decisions are made locally by people who live in the community and who will feel the impacts of those decisions.

5. Job and Wages
Independently owned small businesses are the number one employer in the United States. Locally owned businesses create more jobs and in some sectors, provide better wages and benefits than chain stores.

6. Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship fuels Americas economic innovation and prosperity, and serves as a key means for families to move out of low-wage jobs and into the middle class.

7. Public Benefits and Cost
Local stores require comparatively little infrastructure and make more efficient use of public services relative to big box stores.

8. Competition
A marketplace of tens of thousands of small businesses is the best way to ensure innovation and low prices over the long term.

9. Product Diversity
A multitude of small businesses, each selecting products based not on a national sales plan, but on their own interests and the needs of their local customers, guarantees a broader range of product choices.

10. Better Service
Local owners expertise and passion for their trade far surpasses that of an employee or manager of a national chain. They care about building a solid customer base through personal relationships and strong customer service.

This is a community site for the city of Nyack , NY.