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Posted on 04/12/2026 4:48:08 PM PDT by Libloather
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s first city-owned grocery store will be in East Harlem and cost about $30 million, a report said Sunday.
The store will be in La Marqueta, a marketplace under the train tracks running over Park Avenue, and be up and running for business by the end of his first term in 2029, according to the New York Times.
La Marqueta is already owned by the city.
Mamdani was expected to announce the Manhattan market plan at the party he was throwing at a Queens concert hall Sunday to celebrate his first 100 days in office, a milestone that passed Friday.
The store would be the first of five city-owned groceries the mayor made bold promises to build during his campaign.
Mamdani’s proposal for the East Harlem store would eat up nearly half of the $70 million he proposed for the five-store program as recently as February.
His plan was to put one market in each of the five boroughs.
He thinks the move will lower food costs for poorer New Yorkers.
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Could someone please pass the popcorn? I need enough to last, say, about three months!
Well, he is a Democrat. That means he is totally inept at everything except flapping his lips with interminable gibberish.
Pool - How many days until the store closes?
Store broke in three months and closes
“It doesn’t take three years to open a legitimate grocery store. Probably doesn’t cost $30 million, either.”
Deja vu all over again. The Wollman Rink fiasco, but I don’t think Donald Trump will rescue them this time.
What a Sh@tsshow tthat will be. Any and all NYC Freepers need to find another place to spend the day.
It takes almost four years to build out a grocery store? I’m sure I’m missing something here.
Great idea. Too many of us were raised wrong and don’t know how to steal properly. Shoplifting glasses will be a great help. Do we come armed? Or just dangerous?
Not only a Democrat, but an incompetent young boob who has never done ANYTHING in his life.
But these are the most dangerous sorts of people. They think they know it all and are immune to the laws of physics and economics.
“...the end of his first term in 2029...”
Who says there will be a second term? By the time they reach that date there won’t be anyone with money to tax left in the state.
wy69
I lost my arms in a boatign accident, so ill just have to go dangerous
It just needs to be open for a few days before the voting starts. So that he can claim that he did it, and then the moment the election is over, it’ll have some sort of “problem”, and have to be closed.
Will it open before the $30 million is all gone?
Will they install live feed security cameras for public entertainment purposes?
“Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s first city-owned grocery store will be in East Harlem and cost about $30 million, a report said Sunday.”
I will be very interested to read a follow-up report on the store in about six months.
‘The People’s Republik of Madistan’ (WI) has been flirting with this, too.
It’s going on three years, now. No grand opening. No free food.
*SMIRK*
The store will be in La Marqueta, a marketplace under the train tracks r
The market was originally an informal gathering place for pushcart vendors and other merchants, but since 1936 it has been officially sanctioned,[2] and vendors rent their stalls from the city. It was once possible to buy food, traditional medicines, recordings of Latin music, and supplies for charms and curses at La Marqueta.[1] It was also the meeting place for the neighborhood after urban renewal displaced countless small businesses, replacing them with only large scale housing. Today, three of the original five buildings that housed the market have been burned or torn down, and a fourth is shuttered. As of May 2008, only four vendors were operating out of the last building,[1] but the number later increased, reaching ten in early 2011.[3]
Atlanta opened a government owned Azaela market 15 months ago. It had a lot of free publicity the first 3 months. It is close to both thousands of GSU students/faculty and office employees.
Now, 15 months later it has been out of the news. Yelp lists the 86 best markets in “downtown” Atlanta. The downtown Publix and Kroger are listed first, then PigglyWiggly, then a mix of downtown & many midtown, large & small, general & specialty then farther out in all directions.
Out of 86 no city owned store in Yelp’s list no city owned store. In 12 months, not a peep out of anyone on how the store is doing. Movement types that are always trying to grab attention never seen associated with this government owned store. No idea how it is doing.
What about the bodegas in NYC?
“What’s the rush????”
All the bribes have to get paid in advance.
Shoplifters Welcome!
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