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Beauty Stores & Retail
Pop-Up / Event Retail
Mented Cosmetics Pop-Up
New York, NY
Location varies: follow @mentedcosmetics for announcements
KJ Miller and Amanda Johnson's inclusive makeup brand holds regular pop-ups in NYC, focused on nudes and pigme…
Natural Beauty Boutique
Harlem Natural
New York, NY
283 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY 10027
A Harlem community staple stocking natural and organic beauty products, herbal wellness items, and skincare fr…
Beauty Supply
Paris Beauty Supplyz
Brooklyn, NY
3211 Church Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11226
Founded 2020 by Paris McKenzie at age 16; youngest Black owner
Beauty Supply
Black Girls Divine Beauty Supply & Salon
Brooklyn, NY
3904 Church Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11203
A Black-owned beauty supply store serving the Brooklyn community.
Beauty Supply
IBI Beauty Supply Store
St. Albans, NY
20013 Linden Blvd, St. Albans, NY 11412
A Black-owned beauty supply store serving the St. Albans community.
Beauty Supply
Vivrant Beauty
New York, NY
220 Saint Nicholas Ave, New York, NY 10027
Harlem
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Salons, Nails & Spas
Nail Salon
The Beauty Cave
New York, NY
Black-owned nail salon in East Harlem. A neighborhood staple offering quality nail care in Upper Manhattan.
Nail Salon
Eve Milan New York
White Plains, NY
Upscale Black-owned wellness spa and social club in White Plains offering nail services, advanced skincare, bo…
Nail Salon
The Laq Lab
Brooklyn, NY
Black women-owned luxury nail salon in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Specializes in Apres Gel X and nail art. Also off…
Nail Salon
Adore Nailz
New York, NY
Black-owned luxury nail studio in East Harlem, by appointment only. Founded by Florence Watson.
Beyond Beauty
Eat, Stay & Explore
Restaurants
Red Rooster Harlem
Marcus Samuelsson
The restaurant that put Harlem on the fine dining map. Marcus Samuelsson built Red Rooster as a comm…
Restaurants
Hav & Mar
Marcus Samuelsson
Samuelsson's Chelsea seafood restaurant blending Swedish and Ethiopian influences -- what he calls '…
Restaurants
Kokomo Caribbean
Ria & Kevol Graham
Michelin Guide-recognized pan-Caribbean restaurant in Williamsburg redefining what Caribbean cooking…
Restaurants
Tatiana by Kwame Onwuachi
Kwame Onwuachi
Named the number one restaurant in New York City by the New York Times in 2024. Bronx-raised Chef Kw…
Restaurants
Scarr's Pizza
Scarr Pimentel
Named the best pizza in New York City in 2025. Scarr Pimentel built his Lower East Side slice shop o…
Restaurants
Harlem Hops
Harlem Hops
Manhattan's first 100% Black-owned craft beer bar. Harlem Hops rotates rare and independent brews al…
Restaurants
La Cachette du Coin
Eva Volmar
Eva Volmar poured her life savings into transforming a raw space at 625 Rogers Avenue in Prospect Le…
Travel & Hospitality
Akwaaba Bed & Breakfast Inns
Monique Greenwood
Former Essence Editor-in-Chief Monique Greenwood left the magazine world to open Akwaaba Mansion in …
Art & Design
Kehinde Wiley Studio
Kehinde Wiley
The first Black artist commissioned to paint an official U.S. Presidential portrait -- Barack Obama,…
Art & Design
Derrick Adams Studio
Derrick Adams
Multidisciplinary artist represented by Gagosian whose paintings center Black joy, leisure, and the …
Art & Design
Translation
Steve Stoute
Steve Stoute founded Translation to bridge culture and commerce -- creating Jay-Z's Made in America …
Books & Publishing
The Lit. Bar
Noelle Santos
The only general-interest bookstore in the entire borough of the Bronx. Noelle Santos fought for yea…
Fitness & Movement
Bfunk
Chris Samba
Chris Samba -- born in Guinea, raised in Harlem -- built Bfunk as an Afrobeats dance fitness experie…
Finance & Wealth
Carver Federal Savings Bank
Founded by Harlem community
Founded in 1948 to serve Black and Latino New Yorkers who were systematically denied access to mains…
Finance & Wealth
Harlem Capital
Henri Pierre-Jacques & Jarrid Tingle
Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle met at Harvard Business School and set out to change who gets…
Finance & Wealth
Blaylock Van
Ronald Blaylock
The longest-operating Black-owned investment banking firm on Wall Street. Ronald Blaylock founded Bl…
Retail Food & Beverage
Brooklyn Tea
Jamila & Alfonso Wright
Brooklyn's premier Black-owned tea brand, co-founded by Jamila and Alfonso Wright with a mission to …
Home & Lifestyle
CRUXGG
Ghetto Gastro x Crux
Kitchen appliance brand born from the collaboration between Bronx culinary collective Ghetto Gastro …
Retail Food & Beverage
Ghetto Gastro
Jon Gray, Pierre Serrao & Lester Walker
The Bronx collective that turned food into a political act. Ghetto Gastro has cooked for the MoMA, c…
Retail Food & Beverage
Sol Cacao
Conrad Dao & Dominic Dao
Bronx-born bean-to-bar chocolate company using single-origin cacao from Trinidad, Ghana, and the Dom…
Retail Food & Beverage
Cloudy Donut Co.
Derrick Faulcon & Zewiditu Ruffin
Derrick Faulcon spent 11 years incarcerated before opening Cloudy Donut Co. -- a 100% vegan, small-b…
Grocery
Earnest Foods
Earnest Flowers
Organic and all-natural supermarket on Merrick Boulevard in Jamaica, Queens, stocking 40+ BIPOC-owne…
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