Donate NowNew York City’s first licensed recreational marijuana dispensary served over 500 customers during its grand opening on Thursday, but thoseAmid the hubbub over the start of legal, recreational-use sales, the Sheriff’s Interagency Enforcement Task Force was on the lookout for illegal storefront operations. It conducted nine store inspections in the northern part of Midtown on Wednesday and Thursday.
The enforcement coincided with the carnivalesque atmosphere on Thursday in the East Village, where customers, curiosity seekers, state and local officials, and others heralded the era of legal recreational cannabis sales — which, for now, are limited to a single shop in the city.its doors at East Eighth Street and Broadway at 4:20 p.m. and was initially scheduled to close at 7:10 p.m. Instead, it stayed open past 8 p.m.