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Title: Asian man is pushing hard for city owned grocery stores to cut down cost??
Post by: theking on May 29, 2026, 11:30:38 PM

Mamdani’s East Harlem grocery store site already got $25M in NYC taxpayer funds years ago — setting stage for $55M boondoggle
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan to open a $30 million, city-owned grocery store in East Harlem is aimed for a site that was already approved for a $25 million public upgrade years ago — setting the stage for a bizarre boondoggle that has perplexed local business leaders, The Post has learned.

La Marqueta, the food-focused market between East 111th and East 119th streets under the elevated Metro North tracks on Park Avenue, is where Mamdani last month proposed to open a government-owned supermarket. Unlike neighboring stores, the new grocer would be able to offer rock-bottom prices because it wouldn’t pay rent or taxes.

That same site, however, already won approval from the city’s Economic Development Corporation nearly a decade ago for a $25 million project to redevelop La Marqueta — bringing the total price tag of the market’s proposed makeover to a staggering $55 million, city officials confirmed.

Title: Re: Asian man is pushing hard for city owned grocery stores to cut down cost??
Post by: Visualmon on May 30, 2026, 01:11:43 AM

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