{"id":206569,"date":"2026-04-22T22:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/206569\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T22:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:34:08","slug":"news-12-new-jersey-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/206569\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Some Throggs Neck residents are concerned about the upcoming opening of a new cannabis dispensary near the corner of East Tremont Avenue and Philip Avenue, which ownership tells News 12 is planned for some point before July.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;I feel very disturbed about it, and I hope I don&#8217;t have to maybe eventually sell my house,&#8221; said Fernando Cofresi, a longtime resident of the area.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Once Victory Dispensary opens, there will be two licensed cannabis stores a block apart.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;On this block, you have a lot of the same things, like you&#8217;ll see there&#8217;s a nail salon from block to block,&#8221; said Shana Mojia, another resident, &#8220;So when I saw the first dispensary, I wasn&#8217;t surprised to see there was a second one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The application was approved by <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/bronxcb10\/downloads\/pdf\/minutes\/2025\/minutes_ph-cb_20250105.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bronx Community Board 10 last May<\/a>, despite the objections of some residents, like Cofresi.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;If you look at certain neighborhoods that have brought those particular dispensaries up, the prices, the value of the houses go down,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The area becomes a little &#8216;fugazi&#8217; as New Yorkers say.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Neighbors also have concerns with the specific location, which has at least four schools within a half-mile radius.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">People in the area say students like to take the bus to the corner where the dispensary will be, then hang out at the McDonald&#8217;s across the street.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;(I&#8217;m worried about) the influence on the youngsters &#8211; (from) the non-desirables that come around,&#8221; Cofresi said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;We have the same concerns with liquor stores, smoke shops, this is just another thing to add to the list to as parents make sure we&#8217;re educating our kids,&#8221; Mojia agreed.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">One of Victory&#8217;s owners already has another dispensary in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\"><a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/bronxcb10\/downloads\/pdf\/2025\/Victory-Dispensary-LLC.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In proposals <\/a>and testimony to the Community Board, ownership promised armed security at all hours it is open, and ID scanning to make sure everyone coming inside is 21.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;It&#8217;s really on the businesses to make sure that they&#8217;re being ethical in their approach,&#8221; said Mojia.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Owners also said the plan to hire 10-15 people, who will all be from Throggs Neck, and would help authorities locate illegal cannabis dealers in the area, which they warn could be selling unregulated and unlicensed products.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;Are they really gonna be able to do that? It could sometimes bring about violence,&#8221; said Confresi. &#8220;You&#8217;re talking about a competitive market. Whether it&#8217;s illegal or not illegal, it&#8217;s just a bad look for the neighborhood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Proposals also said that on-site consumption will not be allowed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some Throggs Neck residents are concerned about the upcoming opening of a new cannabis dispensary near the corner&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-206569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}