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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“I’m convinced everything Muslim Brotherhood Mamdani does is specifically for the purpose of creating chaos.”
I bet they won’t feature pork in the butcher display. And goat will sell at a premium. Good chance the kids riding animals outside the front door are camels.
wy69
“He thinks the move will lower food costs for poorer New Yorkers.”
Oh, I’m sure it will - walk in, grab stuff, walk out.
“…and be up and running for business by the end of his first term in 2029…”
Clever. It won’t have time to fail miserably before the election. It could easily open in a matter of months but Mamdani knows what’s always happens is gonna happen.
More lies from the Communists. The peasants will lick it up and ask for more.
Run by the efficiency of government workers.
What could go wrong?
I don’t know. Looking at my local supermarket, I’d estimate their inventory to be worth $30 million. That’s just one store.
If only they could implement private-sector efficiency incentives in such stores. Oh, wait...
This should be interesting to watch. The rest of the country will be watching as well as New Yorkers. I personally don’t give it a lot of hope.
And higher taxes
Free is one of many misused words the democrats love to use.
It'll take more than three years to establish one grocery store? Sounds like typical socialist government efficiency.
2029 is a long time to wait to eat. People will be starving and dying in the streets by then. He wants to starve the black, brown and lgbt2sqqai+ communities.
Isn't that the normal NYT reporting?
I will show you my business plan.
There is a free grocery store... It’s called a local food bank. This is not new
The grocery wholesalers don’t give their stuff away for free.
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Granted that but city owned doesn’t need the profit margins
that a operation for profit needs to keep going. But time will
tell as to how the money flows.
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