# Gotham Buds, New York NY: Reviews

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ny/new-york/gotham-buds-new-york-ny. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-09-16.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ny/new-york/gotham-buds-new-york-ny

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## In short

Gotham Buds is a cannabis dispensary in New York, NY. Its AI Score is 23 of 100, which is poor.

What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Cannabis dispensary |
| Address | 248 W 125th St, New York, NY 10027, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Sun 10 AM to 10 PM |
| Phone | (646) 410-0200 |
| Rating | 4.2 across 661 reviews on Google |
| Quietest time | Tuesday |
| Updated | September 16, 2026 |


## All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Location info | Address | 248 W 125th St, New York, NY 10027, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | Gotham Buds is the First licensed adult-use cannabis dispensary located at 248 W 125th St. in Harlem, NY. We offer tested, legal cannabis from some of the top, most reputable cannabis brands in New York, as well as unique smoking accessories and branded products. We also create and sell high quality, luxury clothing and create mind-bending hip-hop music. Come see us! We're open from 10am-10pm Monday-Sunday. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Sun 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Gotham Buds | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (646) 410-0200 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Cannabis sales | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Smoking accessories | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Smoking accessories sales | AI guess |  |
| Links | Website | https://gothambudsny.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


## Services and prices

These are the 1 service Gotham Buds offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.

| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Smoking accessories |  |  |  | From their website |


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## The team

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## Visiting Gotham Buds

Address: 248 W 125th St, New York, NY 10027, USA. Phone: (646) 410-0200. Hours: Mon to Sun 10 AM to 10 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

From Google Business Profile: "Gotham Buds is the First licensed adult-use cannabis dispensary located at 248 W 125th St. in Harlem, NY. We offer tested, legal cannabis from some of the top, most reputable cannabis brands in New York, as well as unique smoking accessories and branded products. We also create and sell high quality, luxury clothing and create mind-bending hip-hop music. Come see us! We're open from 10am-10pm Monday-Sunday."


### When to go

Quietest day: Tuesday. Busiest day: Friday. From the popular times on its Google listing.


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dave's Hot Chicken | Chicken restaurant | 1 min walk |
| The Victoria Theater Restaurant | Restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Apollo Theater | Performing arts theater | 1 min walk |
| Chick-fil-A | Fast food restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Impark - 215 West 125 Street Lot 12 | Parking garage | 2 min walk |
| W 125 St/Frederick Douglass Blvd | Bus stop | 2 min walk |


## Reputation

4.2 average across 661 reviews: Google 661. (Confirmed, read September 16, 2026.)

Gotham Buds struggles with staff demeanor and product quality, despite some positive customer interactions. (AI guess, from 661 reviews.)


### What people do not like

- Rude front desk staff
- Expired or stale products
- Long waits and poor service


### Press

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## Questions people ask


### same day slots, does that ever happen here


### anything I should sort out before a first visit at Gotham Buds?


### do regulars get anything here


### what else is on 125th around this place?


### when is this place actually dead?


### anyone been to both here and Superfly New York City?


### bad experiences at Gotham Buds, anyone?


### best cannabis dispensary in New York


### how do I reach Gotham Buds to sort something out?


### Worth the hype at Gotham Buds?


### opening hours at Gotham Buds in New York, what are they these days?


### address for this place, anyone have it?


### On a budget in New York, is Gotham Buds the one?


### last update from here was when?


### the good stuff about this place, what is it?


### going rate for dispensaries locally, any idea


## The AI Score: 23 of 100

It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. New York cannabis dispensaries run 22 to 27. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Gotham Buds scores 23, below the New York average of 25. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Gotham Buds |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 0 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 40 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 82 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 56 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 5 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Poor |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 50 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Fair |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology

How AI decides what to say about a cannabis dispensary: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business


## Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Gotham Buds |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gotham Buds | LocalBusiness | #business | https://gothambudsny.com/ | Subject of this page |
| New York, New York | City | #city |  | City Gotham Buds is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page |


## Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the cannabis dispensaries in New York, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best cannabis dispensaries in New York: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ny/new-york/cannabis-dispensary
- Best businesses in New York: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ny/new-york


### Nearby

- /poughkeepsie: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ny/poughkeepsie
- /middletown: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ny/middletown
- /flushing: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ny/flushing
- /kingston: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ny/kingston
- /huntington: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ny/huntington
- /rochester: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ny/rochester


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in New York: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ny


## References


### Sources cited

- [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJibNiyV_3wokR_Y5c522Af0w (accessed Sep 16, 2026)
- [2] gothambudsny.com, https://gothambudsny.com/smoking-accessories/ (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [3] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 16, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 20, 2026)