{"id":57,"date":"2023-08-14T18:58:50","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T18:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/?p=57"},"modified":"2026-01-22T19:26:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T19:26:34","slug":"ny1-city-councilmember-lynn-schulman-discusses-illegal-smoke-shops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/2023\/08\/14\/ny1-city-councilmember-lynn-schulman-discusses-illegal-smoke-shops\/","title":{"rendered":"NY1 &#8211; City Councilmember Lynn Schulman discusses illegal smoke shops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><mark style=\"background-color:#ffffff\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">By\u00a0Spectrum News Staff<\/mark><\/p>\n<p>Under a new law, landlords can be fined up to $10,000 if they knowingly rent out commercial space to unlicensed marijuana sellers.<\/p>\n<p>The fines are part of a larger citywide push to crack down on illegal smoke shops. There are 8,000 of them throughout the five boroughs, according to City Council data.<\/p>\n<p>City Councilmember Lynn Schulman, who sponsored the bill that is cracking down on the shops, joined host Bobby Cuza on &#8220;Inside City Hall&#8221; Monday night to discuss illegal smoke shops.<\/p>\n<p>Schulman&#8217;s District 29 in Queens includes the neighborhoods of Rego Park, Forest Hills, Kew Gardens and Richmond Hill. She is the chair of the City Council Committee on Health.<\/p>\n<p>Link to story: <a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/inside-city-hall\/2023\/08\/14\/city-councilmember-lynn-schulman-discusses-illegal-smoke-shops\">https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/inside-city-hall\/2023\/08\/14\/city-councilmember-lynn-schulman-discusses-illegal-smoke-shops<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Spectrum News Staff<\/p>\n<p>Under a new law, landlords can be fined up to $10,000 if they knowingly rent out commercial space to unlicensed marijuana sellers.<\/p>\n<p>The fines are part of a larger citywide push to crack down on illegal smoke shops. There are 8,000 of them throughout the five boroughs, according to City Council data.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/2023\/08\/14\/ny1-city-councilmember-lynn-schulman-discusses-illegal-smoke-shops\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":351,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/351"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}