Leslie Feinberg opened the popular Prohibition Bakery on the Lower East Side in 2012, with a five year lease on their storefront location. When the lease came up, the landlord told her she was welcome to re-up – at a 45% rent increase. Luckily for her, she had just opened a second business nearby, a bar.  She had to change her plan for Prohibition, turning it into an online catering company, and she baked her cupcakes in the bar. In neighborhoods all across Manhattan, and now, Brooklyn, storefronts are vacant and many business owners blame out-of-control landlords who would rather see a space sitting empty in anticipation of a bigger, richer business willing to pay pretty much any price than rent at lower rates (something many landlords dispute). But there are a lot of reasons businesses fail, from poor planning to incomprehensible regulations and, of course, the growth of online shopping. Gregg Bishop, Commissioner of NYC Department of Small Business Services, is determined to slow the trend by helping entrepreneurs turn their big ideas into reality. Bishop and Feinberg discuss the problems faced by small business owners in New York, and offer insights into how to fix them.