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.
Why on earth would a building with expensive lofts upstairs let a cannabis shop come in downstairs!?
ReplyDeleteThat is the worst possible thing to open there for the neighborhood another pot shop which causes nothing but trouble.
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteI think its great. I love the inclusion of minorities. Any one who is not breaking the law have the rite to pursue there dreams. Stop being haters
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