New York City Dispensaries: 309 Licensed Stores, the Most Expensive Wyld Tin in America, and How to Tell a Real Shop From the Rest

New York City is Denver turned inside out. Denver has a collapsing supply side and a $14.95 Wyld tin. New York City has 309 licensed stores open as of November 1, 2026, by the state's own licence file (104 in Manhattan, 85 in Brooklyn, 81 in Queens, 23 in the Bronx and 16 on Staten Island), 83 of them opened this year, and the same 100mg Wyld tin costs $22.50 at the cheapest licensed counter we could find, Housing Works at 750 Broadway, and $31 for the ratio flavors at Lenox Hill on the Upper East Side, before whatever the register adds.

The register is not the story. New York's 13 percent is half of Denver's 26.75. The price is upstream: a 9 percent distributor tax paid before the product reaches the store, an in-state-only supply chain three years old, and a retail market the city's own budget office describes in one sentence, "Sales per store in NYC have been dropping each quarter since the end of calendar year 2025," while roughly eight new stores open a month. New York is building the shelf and the customer at the same time, and the customer is paying for the construction.

So the advice is short. Shop licensed, which in this city is a skill, and the page teaches it below. Shop Housing Works or Stoops for Wyld, Conbud for the in-state brands and the one fast-acting tablet in town, and get a medical certification if you buy every month. And do not trust a dispensary count from anyone, including the state, which published 698, 712 and 744 open stores in three documents inside a month depending on how it counted. All three are printed here with their methods.

How many licensed dispensaries does New York City have?

309 open as of November 1, 2026, by the Office of Cannabis Management's licence file: every retail-purpose licence (retail dispensary, conditional retail dispensary and microbusiness with retail sales) with both licence status and operational status marked Active, inside the five counties. Another 110 city licences are active but not yet open, and 101 more are in process.

The state's own documents give three statewide totals in one month, and the gap is method. The licence file, counted as above, gives 698. The Cannabis Control Board's October 2 release says "712 retailers have reported opening statewide, while 327 licensed retailers have not yet opened," out of 1,039 licensed. The Governor's October 27 release says 744 "licensed adult-use retailers open for business." Self-reported openings, an operational flag in a database and a press-release tally land 46 stores apart, and anyone quoting one of them as the number is choosing.

The direction is not in dispute. The city's budget office counted 105 stores at the end of 2024 and 211 at the end of 2025, with eight opening a month since July 2025; OCM's annual report had 214 in the city as of November 30, 2025; the file has 309 now. The file also records the exits: seven city stores opened and then went Inactive by this fall, among them Gotham Williamsburg at 300 Kent Avenue (expired September 20), Culture House Midtown (January 12), and Hudson Economics at 1981 86th Street in Brooklyn, which opened on January 6, 2026 and whose licence expired on February 28. That is a 53-day dispensary, and it is in the public record for anyone who reads it.

How do you know a New York City dispensary is licensed?

Check the state's licence file before you walk in. The Office of Cannabis Management publishes every licence as an open dataset, updated weekly, with status, address and opening date. A licensed store posts its OCM licence inside the door and sells products that carry the state's universal symbol and a milligram line. An unlicensed shop has neither, and its gummies have no 10mg serving.

1. Look the address up in the Current OCM Licenses dataset on data.ny.gov. A legal store shows licence status Active and operational status Active, with a licence number like OCM-CAURD-23-000002 or OCM-RETL-25-000355. Every store named on this page was checked against the November 1 file.
2. Inside the door, look for the posted licence. 9 NYCRR 123.10(a)(2)(ii) requires the licence and the "allowable possession and purchase limits" posted "in a conspicuous location inside the retail dispensary."
3. On the package, look for the universal symbol, at least 1.25 inches tall in its square form under 128.5(b)(6), and the required warnings under 128.5(f), including the one for anything swallowed: effects delayed by four or more hours.
4. On the label, 128.5(a)(1) requires milligrams of total THC per serving and per package, the number of servings and the serving size. A New York edible is capped at 10mg per serving and 100mg per package under 123.6(f)(1), and the lab result has to land within 85 to 115 percent of the label under 123.6(f)(2). A 500mg bag is not a legal New York product.
5. The tells of a smoke shop: no licence posted, hemp-derived or delta-8 labels, bags in the hundreds of milligrams, a menu with no THC-per-serving figure, a counter that sells without scanning an ID. Any one of them and you are in a smoke shop, however good the lighting.

The licensed shelf is the only one where the serving cap, the variance rule, the lab panel and the warning apply. For an edibles buyer that is the whole difference between a dosed product and a guess, and the state-by-state legality page and the dosing guide both assume you are holding the first kind.

What does a Wyld tin cost in New York City this week?

$22.50 to $31 for a 100mg tin on the five licensed menus we read on November 2, 2026: $22.50 for the plain flavors at Housing Works on Broadway, $24 at Stoops and $28 at Lenox Hill, and $26 to $31 for the ratio tins, with Conbud's Pear at $30. Denver's cheapest tin was $14.95 on October 21, Chicago's $20 in September, San Francisco's Elderberry $16.99.

One caution: the Denver, Chicago and San Francisco figures are menu prices before tax, and the New York listings do not say whether the 13 percent is folded in, so treat the gap as the smallest it can be. Camino runs $28 to $30 at Housing Works and Stoops, $30 to $32 at Lenox Hill and $32 to $34 at Smacked on Bleecker. Ayrloom, the Central New York orchard brand, is the cheapest dose in the city: $3.50 for the 5mg Black Cherry 1:1 can at Housing Works, $5 for the 10mg cans at Stoops, $6 at Smacked. The in-state shelf at Conbud is where the price finally behaves: Mac Pharms Orange Burst gummies, ten 10mg pieces, $18; a Cannabals 100mg brick, $19; MFNY live resin gummies, $25; 1906 Boost 5mg tablets, $5 for two. Wana was on one menu of the five, Lenox Hill, where every Classic and Quick tin was $29.

Why are edibles so expensive in New York City?

A 9 percent distributor tax paid before the product reaches the store, an in-state-only supply chain three years old, and sales per store that fall every quarter as the state opens roughly eight new city dispensaries a month. The 13 percent at the register, 9 percent state and 4 percent local, is the visible part and the smaller one.

The stack, from the Department of Taxation and Finance: a retail tax of 13 percent, "9% state excise tax + 4% local excise tax," with no sales tax on top; and a 9 percent distributor tax on the transfer to the retailer, which on June 1, 2024 replaced a potency tax of three cents per milligram of THC on edibles. Under the old rate a 100mg tin carried $3 of tax before it reached a shelf; under the new one it carries 9 percent of a wholesale price nobody prints. Headset put the state's average item price at $28.62 in September, which the New York state page covers at length. The city's February financial plan forecasts $24 million in adult-use tax for the 2026 fiscal year and $33 million for 2027, then says the quiet part: "Collections growth has not been as rapid as the expansion in store openings because of competition among suppliers as well as lower cannabis prices." Lower prices for whom is a fair question from a $31 tin.

Run the register on a $30 tin: $3.90 for an adult-use buyer. For a certified medical patient the same tin carries a 3.15 percent excise imposed on the registered organization, which the Tax Department says "cannot be added as a separate charge or line item on a sales slip," so it lives inside the price and never on the receipt. The Denver guide is the contrast: a 26.75 percent register on a tin that costs eight dollars less to begin with.

What are the rules for buying and using edibles in New York City?

You must be 21 with valid identification, which 9 NYCRR 123.10(d) spells out as a driver's licence or non-driver ID, a passport, or "a valid federal, state, or local government identification, including IDNYC." Possession is three ounces of flower and 24 grams of concentrate, which is also the ceiling for a single delivery order. Consumption follows the smoke-free air laws.

The city's health department puts the consumption rule plainly: adults can smoke or vape wherever tobacco smoking is allowed, and "it is illegal to smoke or vape cannabis in motor vehicles, even if they are parked. It is also illegal in restaurants, parks, event spaces or any business, including cannabis dispensaries." An edible produces no smoke and the rule is written for smoke; the possession limit still travels with you. Delivery is legal and common: a licensee can deliver "to residential properties, including short and long-term residences and private businesses anywhere in New York State," never to public buildings or parks, after verifying identity and age at the door under 123.20. In the licence file, 270 of the 309 open city stores carry the delivery authorization. Home cultivation has been legal for adults since June 26, 2024: three mature and three immature plants per person, six and six per residence.

Is the city still padlocking unlicensed shops?

Yes, at a slower pace. Operation Padlock to Protect began on May 7, 2024 against what the mayor called roughly 2,800 unlicensed shops; by May 14, 2025 the city said it had sealed nearly 1,400 and seized over $95 million in product. The sheriff's office closed 358 shops in 2025 and 89 in the first four and a half months of 2026, and has had a new sheriff since May 29.

The numbers come from the agencies that produced them. NBC New York put the 2024 estimate at some 2,900 unlicensed vendors against around 60 licensed dispensaries then operating. The Queens District Attorney on May 19, 2026: 352 Queens shops padlocked since May 2024, and a Bayside raid that took 526 pounds of flower, 417 pounds of THC vapes and 284 pounds of edibles out of a storefront and the apartment above it. Mayor Mamdani appointed Edwin Raymond, a retired police lieutenant, as sheriff on May 29, 2026. Statewide, the Governor's October 27 tally is 2,257 storefront inspections, 738 shops padlocked and $276.9 million of product seized, and OCM counts 2,017 enforcement actions in 2025 alone.

Read them together. The city sealed about 1,400 shops to protect a licensed market that had roughly 60 stores when the padlocks started and charges $22.50 for a tin Denver sells for $14.95. The shops reopen, the sheriff goes back, and 309 licensed doors now stand where 60 did. The targets on this page are the brochures and the count, never the licensees who waited two years for a door.

Should you get a medical certification in New York?

If you buy every month, yes. Medical cannabis sits outside the 13 percent retail tax and the 9 percent distributor tax and carries a 3.15 percent excise paid by the registered organization that cannot appear on your receipt. Any New York practitioner who can prescribe controlled substances can certify you for "any condition deemed clinically appropriate," and certifications now run two years.

The program is small in a state with 744 open adult-use stores: 67,997 registered patients and 4,848 certifying practitioners as of November 1, 2026, per OCM's own page. There is no card any more; the certification carries the registry number and you present it with photo ID. The bill signed in November 2025 extended certifications from one year to two and added reciprocity for out-of-state patients. The city's medical counters are Cannabist at 44 Court Street in Brooklyn, Verilife at 25-27 West Fordham Road in the Bronx, Vireo at 89-55 Queens Boulevard in Elmhurst, and Sunnyside at 178 North 4th Street in Williamsburg, plus Curaleaf at 107-18 70th Road in Forest Hills, which has sold adult-use beside medical since July 26, 2024 per Curaleaf's SEC filing. Edibles for medical use and the condition pages cover what a certification is for once you have it.

The stores worth knowing

Every store below holds a licence marked Active and operational in the November 1, 2026 file, and the licence numbers and opening dates are the file's. The sentence after each is about the edibles shelf or the price, which is what this site is for.

Housing Works Cannabis Co. 750 Broadway, Manhattan, OCM-CAURD-22-000001, the state's first licensed store, opened December 29, 2022; a second store at 846 Avenue of the Americas opened December 16, 2024. The cheapest Wyld tin we read in the city at $22.50, and a $3.50 Ayrloom 5mg can.

The Travel Agency. Union Square at 835 Broadway (OCM-CAURD-23-000003, opened February 13, 2023), Downtown Brooklyn at 118 Flatbush Avenue (OCM-CAURD-24-000091, February 26, 2024), SoHo at 598 Broadway (OCM-RETL-25-000355, May 7, 2025). A deep Wyld shelf and no prices we could read, so none appear here.

Stoops NYC. 182 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, OCM-CAURD-24-000082, opened June 27, 2024 in a former 7-Eleven, per amNY's October 27 profile of founder Chris Kuilan. Wyld from $24, Good Tide Mango $26, Camino $28 to $30, Ayrloom 10mg cans $5. The best middle of the city's price range.

Conbud. 85 Delancey Street, Manhattan, OCM-CAURD-23-000021, opened October 19, 2023, with a Bronx store at 2412 Third Avenue (OCM-CAURD-24-000083, April 18, 2024). The deepest in-state edible shelf we read: Mac Pharms $18, Cannabals $19, MFNY $25, 1906 Boost $5, beside Wyld Pear, Camino and Good Tide at $30.

Gotham. Bowery at 3 East Third Street (OCM-CAURD-23-000009, May 10, 2023) and Chelsea at 146 Tenth Avenue (OCM-CAURD-25-000238, April 4, 2025); the Williamsburg store is Inactive in the file. The menu runs on an embed we could not read.

Lenox Hill Cannabis Co. 334 East 73rd Street, Manhattan, OCM-CAURD-23-000038, opened January 2, 2024. The highest Wyld prices in the table at $28 and $31, and the only menu of five that stocks Wana, at $29 across the line. The Upper East Side pays for the Upper East Side.

Mighty Lucky. 259 Bowery, Manhattan, OCM-CAURD-24-000065, opened April 18, 2024. Nicklz. 797 Eighth Avenue, Manhattan, OCM-CAURD-24-000151, opened June 13, 2024, the Theater District counter. Both run menus we could not read.

Smacked. 144 Bleecker Street, Manhattan, OCM-CAURD-23-000002, the state's second licence, opened September 22, 2023. Camino $32 to $34, 1906 Bliss tins $33, Ayrloom 10mg beverages $6; no Wyld on the menu we read.

Terp Bros. 36-10 Ditmars Boulevard, Astoria (OCM-CAURD-23-000020, October 17, 2023) and 135-26 Crossbay Boulevard, Ozone Park (OCM-CAURD-25-000294, October 6, 2025). The Queens pick.

Good Grades. 162-03 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, OCM-CAURD-23-000007, opened November 15, 2023. The Cannabis Place. 74-03 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, OCM-CAURD-24-000080, March 8, 2024, delivery authorized. Matawana. 533 Fifth Avenue, Park Slope, OCM-CAURD-24-000071, February 29, 2024. Bud & Honey. 241 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, OCM-CAURD-24-000142, March 8, 2025. Dazed. 33 Union Square West, OCM-CAURD-23-000008, November 9, 2023; both brand domains are dead. Pure Blossoms. 716 Amsterdam Avenue, OCM-CAURD-25-000312, opened February 28, 2026, the store the state celebrated as its six hundredth.

Own a New York dispensary? Get listed. Every store above is a free record in our New York directory or a candidate for one.

Does the federal hemp ban change anything in New York City?

Very little on a licensed shelf. New York banned delta-8 and the other isomerized cannabinoids in December 2023 and capped hemp products at 0.3 percent total delta-9 THC with a 15:1 CBD ratio, so the December 11, 2026 federal definition mostly catches products the state already prohibited. The practical effect lands on the unlicensed shops, which is where the hemp-derived bags are.

The mail-order buyer elsewhere loses a product on December 11; the hemp ban page tracks the date and the guide to hemp gummies after the ban walks that buyer to a licensed counter. In most of Manhattan and Brooklyn the counter is already within walking distance, and the ban's local effect is to remove one more argument for the smoke shop between you and it.

Where should you go first?

For the Wyld buyer, Housing Works on Broadway at $22.50, then Stoops at $24. For the in-state brands and the one fast-acting tablet in town, Conbud on Delancey. For a sleep patient, the Camino Midnight Blueberry and Blackberry Dream tins at Stoops and Conbud, or an Ayrloom 2:1 can for $5, and the CBN ranking for why the second matters. For a monthly buyer, a medical certification first and a dispensary second. For Brooklyn and Queens, Matawana, The Cannabis Place and Terp Bros, checked against the file the morning you go.

That check is the habit this city asks for. The file updates weekly, a store can be open on Google and expired in Albany, and the gap between the licensed tin and the smoke-shop bag is the only reason to pay $22.50 for 100 milligrams. Read the file, read the menu, then go.