NYC's illegal weed shops advertise city's open to criminals
It's but a brisk four-minute walk from the Exotic Smoke Shop on Manhattan's Columbus Avenue, over West 84th Street, to the deceptively labeled Holi...
It's but a brisk four-minute walk from the Exotic Smoke Shop on Manhattan's Columbus Avenue, over West 84th Street, to the deceptively labeled Holiday Candy Convenience store on Amsterdam Avenue. Along the way are PS 9, a once-estimable elementary school, plus a Success Academy grammar school and four mini high schools, all shoehorned into the old Louis D. Brandeis HS building along the north side of 84th. The two storefronts are among 1,500 or so unlicensed, unregulated and pretty much illegal weed shops now crowding the five boroughs.