Photos by Stacie Joy
A licensed cannabis retail shop is the next tenant for the SE corner of Avenue B and Second Street.
Workers have been doing interior renovations in recent weeks...
Paperwork from last August states that this is a Conditional Adult-use Retail Dispensary (CAURD). Per the Office of Cannabis Management: "CAURD licensees are the first retail dispensaries to open for legal adult-use cannabis sales in New York State, establishing businesses owned by justice-involved individuals at the bedrock of New York's adult-use cannabis market."
This corner space was most recently Luzzo's La Pizza Napoletana, which went dark in the fall of 2023. The Avenue B address was previously home to the Wafels & Dinges cafe (and corporate office) for nearly eight years. W&D, which still operates from kiosks and food trucks around the city, moved out in March 2021.
3 comments:
Why on earth would a building with expensive lofts upstairs let a cannabis shop come in downstairs!?
That is the worst possible thing to open there for the neighborhood another pot shop which causes nothing but trouble.
I know it’s extraordinarily hard for CAURD (legal shops) to get through all the red tape to actually open. I would assume they’d want to make sure they are doing everything right once they open. Out of curiousity, is there trouble at these *legal* places? I occasionally walk by the new place on ave b & 13th and Broadway & 8th—maybe it’s just my timing but I barely notice they are pot shops. Granted, I don’t smoke the stuff so I’m not on the lookout.
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