by Emma Davey The 600 block of Manhattan Avenue already looks very different in just a few months.
First, the family-owned Natural Vitamins (671 Manhattan Ave.) announced it would close after 50 years in business. Next, another family-owned business, Dream Fishing Tackle (59 Norman Ave.), left its 673 Manhattan Avenue storefront for a new space around the corner. Now, the Greenpoint location of the Vietnamese chain Mama Pho(685 Manhattan Ave.) has closed for good. As with so…
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Thank you for acknowledging that smoke shops are a blight on our beloved community! We need everyone across city and state agencies and law enforcement to shut them down before the damage becomes irreversible and our communities are no longer welcoming to the vast majority of residents who don’t ingest this poison.
You should have voted for Martha Rowen. You guys complain and keep voting for the (D).
Our brain dead, ignorant pols. got one of the four key things one must do when dealing with vice, dangerous object.. They made pot legal but blew it on responsibility, regulation and non promotion. Total anarchy out there with Manhattan Ave. and to a lesser extent Franklin smelling like a sewer system with total unregulated, illegal pot shops.