Stoops NYC occupies 182 Fifth Avenue, across from the Flatiron Building and a block from Madison Square Park. It is a CAURD-licensed shop (the website lists license OCM-CAURD-24-000082) that the Flatiron NoMad Partnership welcomed in its April 2025 new-neighbor roundup, describing it as Latinx-owned. The name and the branding lean on a very New York image: the front stoop, where neighbors sit, talk and keep an eye on the block.
Co-founder Chris Kuilan grew up in the Bronx and, according to a 2026 episode of the Joint Session podcast's licensee series, spent time in California's legal cannabis market before coming home to open Stoops. The same episode frames it as one of Manhattan's early social-equity dispensaries and spends time on the real pressures of running one: compliance, taxes and building an audience largely through social media and word of mouth rather than big ad budgets.
"Farm to Stoop": what the slogan means on the menu
Stoops markets itself around a "Farm to Stoop" idea: buying directly from New York farmers and craft producers wherever it can. That's a claim you can test against the brand list on its website, which at the time of writing (October 2026) included Ruby Farms, Florist Farms, Golden Garden, Find Flower, Ayrloom, MFNY, Jaunty, Rythm, 5 Boro, L-Train, Loud Buzz, Sensei, Bloom, Baked and Cannabals, among others. That is a mix of upstate farm brands, city-rooted names and a few larger multistate labels, so "local" here means New York-grown across the board (as state law requires) with an obvious tilt toward smaller producers.
Categories run wide: flower, pre-rolls, vapes, edibles, concentrates, tinctures, topicals, cannabis drinks, CBD products and accessories, and the neighborhood partnership's roundup also mentioned pet-friendly items. If you want a primer on the small growers whose names turn up on lists like this one, our guide to craft cannabis in New York and the companion piece on New York-grown brands to know in 2026 are good homework.
Opening hours that bend toward the weekend
Stoops' published schedule is lopsided in a useful way. Per the shop's website, it opens at 8 a.m. Monday through Friday, closes at 10 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, and stays open until midnight Thursday and Friday. Saturday runs 10 a.m. to midnight, and Sunday is the short day, noon to 8 p.m. The early weekday start catches office workers walking up Fifth Avenue; the midnight close on Thursdays through Saturdays covers the dinner-and-drinks crowd around Madison Square and the Flatiron restaurant strip.
Hours have shifted since opening (the April 2025 neighborhood listing showed shorter evenings), so confirm on the site or at (917) 675-6360 if you're cutting it close.
Paying, pickup and the loyalty program
Stoops accepts cash, debit and Dutchie Pay, according to its website. Online orders can be placed for in-store pickup, which is the faster route on busy evenings. The site promotes a Stoops Loyalty program for rewards, exclusive discounts and early word on offers. We didn't find a clearly documented delivery service on the shop's own site, so treat pickup as the reliable option; third-party listings mention delivery, but we couldn't confirm the terms directly.
Limited-time promotions from Flatiron and Union Square shops turn up on our deals tracker as stores post them.
What the public reviews highlight
Stoops is still building a review footprint on some platforms. On Leafly it held a 5.0 rating from a small set of reviews at the time of writing, and those reviews tend to praise named staff members for being friendly and helpful, the organized layout, a large selection of Puffco gear, a convenient location, and an entertaining social media presence. An aggregator that compiles customer comments reported similarly upbeat themes around easy online ordering and quick pickup. Our earlier profile cited a much larger Google review count; we could not independently confirm that figure for this update, so we've removed it.
The neighborhood partnership's write-up also noted that Stoops hosts workshops and seminars about cannabis education and responsible use, which fits the community-first story its founder tells.
A Bronx founder's long road to Fifth Avenue
The Stoops story is a useful window into how New York's equity licensing actually works. CAURD licenses went to applicants who had been convicted of a cannabis offense, or whose parent, child, spouse or dependent had been, and many of those licensees had little capital and no retail real estate. Kuilan's route ran through California's legal market, where, according to the Joint Session episode, he picked up operating experience before returning to compete in his home state. Landing a storefront on Fifth Avenue, steps from one of the most photographed buildings in the city, is an unusually high-visibility outcome for an equity license.
On the podcast, Kuilan is candid that the business still faces the same headwinds as other social-equity shops: heavy compliance work, a tax burden that squeezes margins, and competition for attention in a crowded Manhattan market. His answer has been grassroots marketing and a strong social media voice, which, judging by Leafly reviewers who single out the shop's posts, seems to be landing. For shoppers, the practical upshot is a store with a clear point of view about what it stocks and why, rather than a generic shelf.
Flatiron's legal shops, compared
Stoops isn't alone in the area. Bud & Honey, at 241 Fifth Avenue, arrived around the same time and was featured in the same April 2025 neighborhood roundup. Housing Works Cannabis Co. runs a NoMad location at 846 Sixth Avenue, and The Alchemy Flatiron is on West 18th Street; all of these appear on the state's OCM verification list. Between them, shoppers in the 14th-to-28th Street corridor have more licensed choice than almost anywhere in the city.
Where Stoops stands out is its combination of a Bronx-rooted equity story, a menu stacked with New York farm brands, and later hours from Thursday through Saturday than many neighbors. Our list of the best dispensaries in Manhattan right now puts it in context with shops further downtown and uptown.
Getting to 182 Fifth Avenue
The 23 St station on the R and W lines lets out a block or so away, and the 23 St stops on the F/M (Sixth Avenue) and the 6 (Park Avenue South) are short walks. Union Square, with the L, N, Q, R, W, 4, 5 and 6, is about a ten-minute walk south down Broadway or Fifth. Madison Square Park sits directly across the intersection, with the Flatiron Building at the point of the triangle where Broadway crosses Fifth.
Who Stoops is for
Stoops makes the most sense for people who like to know where their flower comes from and want staff who will talk them through it, as well as for Flatiron and NoMad office workers who want an early-morning or late-evening option. It's also an easy pick for visitors to Madison Square Park and the Flatiron landmark itself. If you're mainly hunting for delivery, verify the current setup before relying on it.