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The city’s housing agency is also suing, seeking to have heat and hot water restored to residents suffering multiple plagues.
The task force revisited only two of the first 53 locations it raided. Both were selling pot again.
The new licensed operations have had lines out of the door — but the unlicensed ones have been making money for months. Not everyone is happy about that.
A series of renderings offer a glimpse at a proposal that could be what a resiliency expert called “the largest transformation of our waterfront since the Robert Moses era.”
City law enforcement officials and City Council members probed the grimmer side of NYC’s rowdy cannabis gray market.
Many nurses at Mt. Sinai and Montefiore walked off the job Monday morning to try and force their employers to treat them like “valuable people” and improve staff-to-patient ratios.
The proposed new sites, at Verdi Square and in Fordham Heights, would join one already announced at City Hall Park in converting vacant newsstands into charging and rest stations.
The crowd on hand downtown thrilled to the legality of it all. Just a few hours later, a shop in Hell’s Kitchen experienced another side of NYC weed sales, as authorities seized cannabis goods from an unlicensed seller.
Work to shut the isolated jail facilities in favor of smaller borough jails is moving ahead — even as the mayor calls for more people to be jailed.