
Rockland County business licenses and permits: what you need before opening
There is no single county business license in Rockland. Approvals come from your town or village, the state, and sometimes the county — here is how the pieces fit.
Rockland employers and storefronts: openings, closures and the costs standing behind them.

There is no single county business license in Rockland. Approvals come from your town or village, the state, and sometimes the county — here is how the pieces fit.

From registering with New York State to a village sign permit in Nyack or a health permit in Ramapo — the sequence of approvals a Rockland entrepreneur actually faces.

Each Rockland river town and village runs its downtown a little differently — here is how the main business corridors work, and who keeps them running.

Listing aggregators put Rockland County's entire office inventory at roughly 6.3 million square feet, with asking rents in the low $20s — numbers that say more about the county's structure than any single deal.

From a waterfront dining room on Spear Street to Southeast Asian cooking on Main Street, Rockland's dining scene keeps adding seats as operators bet on river towns and hamlet centers.