NYC losing popular Hallmark card store to pot shop

[@claudtalkz2194]

I’m a landlord, I haven’t raised my tenants rent, ever. Shame on these jerks, and for a weed shop.

[@Elkcib]

Life is so boring now after Amazon destroyed these stores and malls.

[@jerseykevin27]

No these stores and the prices and the rent and the rent prices destroyed these things... People forget how expensive greeting cards were in a Hallmark store. I were like $8. In 2015

[@Jam3sin]

People prefer them because they are cheaper

[@FinnHutcherson]

This isn't a small business

[@RobynHood1021]

landlords are destroying the fabric of this country

[@Elkcib]

@@RobynHood1021 Don’t just blame the landlords. Have you seen how much the city charges for property tax and how much it increases each year?

[@AnythingJW]

Pot shop thrives until Amazon can also sell pot online...

[@NeonPolygons]

This Hallmark was more than just a Hallmark. This was a true local shop that meant more to the Tudor City community and has been a vital part of so many people's memories. The staff here is amazing and really made the store special. It's absolutely criminal what the landlord has done and kicking out this tenant after so many years of goodwill. NO ONE in the neighborhood wants the canabis store and is going to ruin the fabric of all the other local small businesses in the area. Thank you Amreen's Hallmark for everything your store has done for our home.

[@thekid1597]

People just aren't feeling very Hallmark anymore 😢

[@cezarypruszkowski9523]

Demography is destiny. Ghetto is moving in.

[@MameLongas-x7d]

40k for rent , how tf is the cannabis shop doing that , but how tf is this card shop making that 😂

[@zoeking95]

Money laundering obviously

[@kisskidnova1436]

U not from NYC u wouldn't know and fyi that weed shop will be pulling in over a hundred grand a month easyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

[@MameLongas-x7d]

@@zoeking95 very unfortunate

[@MameLongas-x7d]

@@kisskidnova1436 I am and open one up and tell me how much u make 😂 I live in the Bronx I see them open and close

[@Enjoythewoods]

They make 20k a day selling it

[@drquinnmedicinewoman7786]

I remember when my lover sent me a hallmark ,"cat in a cup" it was the best ornament I ever had and rewarded my lover with a special b. job!

[@Pavillionairez]

I can buy you 10 more if you'd like

[@Jam3sin]

I’d say he earned it because who gives out cards anymore

[@ROYDEMEOSMIND]

@@drquinnmedicinewoman7786 come again

[@ROYDEMEOSMIND]

Smoke that weed roll it in a greeting card. 👋 👋 🌳 🚬

[@Angz-g9f]

Not

[@ROYDEMEOSMIND]

@Angz-g9f shut up and light my blunt skunt 🔥 🌳 🚬

[@teresamorland8414]

Greed is ruining our country.

[@bernardrubin5816]

Awful that they are being forced to leave.

[@bbygrlpt2]

Thats horrible! I remember there used to be on in Queens too. Canabis stores dont even do good, theres two near my house and its always empty ppl barely go in

[@myndgodandpsyche]

No you just don't see them. You're not supposed to that's the whole point

[@bbygrlpt2]

@ Yea bc its illegal and theyre celebrities right lmao

[@snozberries630]

You go in and out of cannabis shops, it's very quick.

[@Mega911Gamer]

This would've been BIG news like 3-4 years ago lmfao nowadays no one cares about storefronts being replaced by dispensaries

[@ROYDEMEOSMIND]

Pass the blunt bro

[@snozberries630]

lmao we want more dispensaries

[@ravisriram6746]

It's really quite disheartening to hear as this is happening in many parts of the city and Turtle Bay happens to be a nice area. For what it's worth, a weed shop in Jackson Heights, Queens finally closed, which I am sure is of great relief to the neighborhood as it just seemed to bring squalor to the area by attracting the wrong element. No other way to put it, I'm afraid.

[@daut8131977]

I feel bad they are being forced out, but like everything else, businesses come and go (Woolworth, Rock Bottom, Genovese, Eckerd, Crazy Eddie, The Wiz, Tower Records, Virgin Megastore, etc.). It's a sign of the times where a Hallmark shop can't keep their business thriving, but a weed store can. Maybe the next step for all current business owners is to see if they can figure out a cannabis infused restaurant and become the first weed restaurant in the city?

[@Jam3sin]

They have that in Long Island already

[@KelcIzahoe]

Sign of the times is right - no one wants to send cards, everyone just wants to get high. Sad, sad state of the world. btw the comment about greed is kind of ridiculous. If someone came to you and offered you an extra $7k (I think) a month, you’d say ‘no’? In today’s state of things, I don’t think anyone would turn that down, even the woman who made the comment SMH

[@peanutmansemporiumofrandom7472]

From a Hallmark store to a smoke shop? What a shock

[@Zero11_ss]

I hate these weed shops. All the weed got the city smelling like shit on any rainy day

[@Enjoythewoods]

Ok grampa

[@lhop6235]

Hope the neighborhood enjoys the 🦨 smell that is increasingly harder to get away from in the city. You can't walk a block without getting a whiff of it. 🤢

[@rc6071]

These stores were the essence of nyc i loved it hallmark stores now to say goodbye smh man after covid happened everything is done in nyc and rents r going up

[@RacingWithSTARS]

that's right all sales are final!!!!! there is no such things as returns in hallmark. never, and never was, outrageously impossible.

[@DRACOFURY]

I jus blame society and technology 😔... Instead of just writin to someone they just text 😔... *Sad 😢*

[@MalcolmMoreaux]

Although I’ve never stepped foot in one of these in my entire life. I do enjoy them being around because at least someone gets to live a Harllmark life. Everything doesn’t have to be a brain dead ghetto fest.

[@BlimpCityFeeder]

Sad for Turtle Bay & Hallmark customers. Shame there's no regulation on commercial rents. Guess that 2nd Ave Mary Jane won't be cheap, paying $40K in monthly rent.

[@Edoshmek]

Weed is better than cards.

[@snozberries630]

Jesus Perez does not know what he's talking about. NYC needs MORE legal cannabis shops!

[@Matthew-p2h]

This is a news story?

[@paulgrimaldi1751]

Art warned us that computers will eventually destroy us. Little by little...

[@CommanderRick]

How are they making so much mkney selling cards and trinkets 🤔. Something isnt adding up

[@musicforall4202]

hallmark is very expensive

[@peterrex8191]

People have made the choice to shop online..for convenience and price..most people barely leave home..studies are proving people young and old are spending more time now isolated and indoors than anytime in our history…it’s sad..but that’s what people have chosen…alone with our tech toys…I travel a lot and around the country except for a few tourists places ..most places ..cities and towns..no one is around after 9 or so…for this 80s kid it’s very strange..but it’s reality now.

[@S3V3N17]

It is what it is , you cant force people to go out

[@TonyManzi-e1i]

Hall Mark stores r the best

[@RacingWithSTARS]

i would spend 6-12 hours in hallmark finding it.

[@georgediaz5522]

A sad Adele song in the background, talk about timing. It's sad to lose longtime neighborhood businesses. Then Eye of the Tiger near the end of the clip! That makes you feel

[@madelinefigueroa887]

Ohh my goodness for a pot shop 😢😢😢 they don't care all about money 💰💰 so dad

[@GenF91]

So sad.

[@josieOlkl-ri7qq]

Noo I love this store! 😔

[@zed316]

So the UN is afraid of a legal pot shop? Okay Gramps. Marvin needs to retire, he's been doing this since I was in grade school.

[@ChaseMavrick]

Geezus Christ, I can’t believe Marvin Scott is still doing the News!

[@kennydude7971]

Did you notice him shuffling his feet while walking? He's been around forever.

[@stelity]

Sorry to hear that it's closing. Pot stores don't usually bring good people.

[@remynyc149]

Legal dispensaries require security at the door that check ids. They don’t have a bunch of nonsense going on in front of them. Urs those illegal ones that bring chaos

[@c0pyimitati0n]

That's such a ridiculous comment boomer. Go drink your alcohol.

[@stelity]

@@remynyc149 legal ones still attract robbers and turf battles. it also outputs more potheads which decreases their intelligence.

[@snozberries630]

lmfao yeah okay bud

[@kisskidnova1436]

Who cares the worlds falling apart and u here worrying about a card shop man f that store

[@ROYDEMEOSMIND]

@@kisskidnova1436 roll it light it smoke it bro

[@diamonds0613]

So much to say but NY officials need to make up their mind. Is it legal or illegal to sell 🪴I know there have been so many stores closed and their merchandise confiscated so what’s the point. This landlord is greedy!!!

[@remynyc149]

Licensed dispensaries are legal. They were shutting down all the unlicensed illegal shops. They want their tax dollars from these places

[@mamastay164]

lol 🤣🤣🤣

[@sheismymom]

lost their lease

[@Reconseal4050]

Weed is more important than small business. lol

[@ByronYanez-l7r]

By law you should stay

[@vm9370]

Lol landlord greedy

[@dalegribble368]

Thats messed up

[@David-r8k3u]

Get some bud set up shop them old white folks stuck in time

[@myndgodandpsyche]

I'm sorry but Hallmark is quite expensive. I could go to Dollar tree get two cards for a dollar from the Hallmark collection buy a bag of weed from the same store and give it as a gift!

[@SamanthaOrtiz-g1c]

💔🙏🙏🙏

[@alexrivera1282]

Oh please..First Hallmark is dying off in general..The one in my neighborhood in Ridgewood was around for 40 years plus and just recently closed..And for his claims of being the only Hallmark in NY is just plain bullshit .....

[@alexrivera1282]

Btw the OCM has rules regarding a smoke shop and schools..As long as the place is 500 feet from a school it's fine..Being near the UN just means international customers.....

[@kennydude7971]

He probably said NYC, as in Manhattan.

[@Crazy-Clown-In-Town]

​@@kennydude7971 I think there's another Hallmark in Port Authority on the 2nd floor.

[@Dizzymarvel]

I didn’t even know greeting cards stores were still relevant. Sending email or text works better as a greeting

[@ronbennett7885]

40 years and doesn't own the space. This is the tradeoff of leasing. Shame so many little businesses are being driven out.

[@c0pyimitati0n]

Yeah, that poor small business that is Hallmark

[@kennydude7971]

It's a big residential property with ground floor commercial space. Maybe if he had like 200 million he could buy it.

[@TimothyPerron-l1b]

Hip Hip Hooray.....

[@moe5415]

LET’S KEEP IT REAL!!!!! people not shopping for cards everyday, and now that marijuana has been legal, everybody smokes weed.🤷🏽‍♂️ This store would have definitely, been going to close sooner or later. And you can’t blame just online shopping because of it.

[@luthen4464]

According to Gallup only about 17% of Americans use Marijuana. That’s hardly “everybody”.

[@samuelwilson8181]

@moe5415. You’re incorrect!! Google is your best friend!!

[@moe5415]

@@samuelwilson8181 You can’t just go by google all the time. Clearly whoever bought that space felt, like it would benefit them from making it a pot shop. 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@kennydude7971]

They sell more than cards, you know that right?

[@moe5415]

@ I know but the fact is that, what they sell isn’t a necessity, or selling end of conversation. The store is closing point blank period.🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️