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New York City\u2019s first city-owned grocery store will open in the Bronx neighborhood of Hunts Point next year, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Monday, making good on a high-profile campaign promise to expand the role of government in the Big Apple.<\/p>\n

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The mayor\u2019s plan includes five city-owned grocery stores, one in each borough. He previously announced the city\u2019s first location set to be at La Marqueta in East Harlem in Manhattan, with hopes to open the store by 2029. The new store will be within Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s (D., N.Y.) district \u2014 a staunch defender of the government grocery plan.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith only one full service supermarket within a quarter mile, thousands of New Yorkers only have only limited options,\u201d Mamdani said in a press conference Monday. \u201cWe are here together today to change that and to chart a new course.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn these stores, prices will be cheaper, workers will be paid fairly and treated with dignity,\u201d Mamdani said.<\/p>\n

The store, however, requires funding approval from City Council, and according to the mayor\u2019s plan, includes $70 million in capital to fund the project.<\/p>\n

Sites are chose based on \u201cgrocery store density, income inadequacy and population density,\u201d according to the mayor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

Compare Foods Supermarket is located a quarter mile from the city\u2019s newest planned grocery store location.<\/p>\n

The 20,000 square foot market space is set to be located at the Peninsula, an affordable housing development in the Bronx. The area is said to have a high poverty rate. It is set to include 740 housing units, ranging from $740 to $2,298 per month, with community spaces and retail space for the mayor\u2019s city-owned grocery store.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaking sure every New Yorker can buy fresh, affordable groceries in their own neighborhood is a key part of our affordability agenda,\u201d Mamdani said in a statement. \u201cWe are proud to begin this work in the South Bronx and remain committed to opening a store in every borough before the end of our first term.\u201d<\/p>\n

Frank Garcia, the chairman of the Multicultural Business Coalition, strongly opposes the city-owned grocery stores, and has raised at least $1 million through his nonprofit to campaign against the plan.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is a waste of our tax dollars,\u201d Garcia told The New York Times<\/em>. \u201cThe mayor should sit down with us, and we can give him a real plan to bring down prices.\u201d<\/p>\n

Garcia\u2019s group plans to hold a rally at City Hall at the end of May, on the same day the city is holding a hearing on the Economic Development Corporation, the group handling the city-owned grocery store plan. Next steps could include filing a lawsuit against the city to stop the grocery stores, according to Garcia.<\/p>\n

Critics are concerned city run grocery stores will push out local bodega owners and chaos in the city.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese stores are going to get jam packed, they\u2019re only four or five in the entire city of 8 million people,\u201d Fernando Mateo with United Bodegas of America previously told ABC7. \u201cWhat do you expect is going to happen? You\u2019re going to have people rushing to these stores early in the morning to late at night, waiting on long lines. You know, it\u2019s going to be more turmoil than anything else. It\u2019s a great punch line for him and for the socialist movement. But New York is not a socialist city.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mamdani said he will \u201cuse the power of government\u201d to lower prices of groceries for New Yorkers.<\/p>\n

\u201cStanding here this morning, I cannot help but think of the word\u2019s of our fortieth president, Ronald Reagan. He famously said, \u2018The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I\u2019m from the government, and I\u2019m here to help,’\u201d Mamdani said. \u201cIt\u2019s a good quote, but I disagree. I think nine more terrifying words are actually \u2018I worked all day and can\u2019t feed my family.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Mamdani has consistently blamed high grocery prices on greedy corporations despite the famously thin margins that obtain in the industry: The average store making just a 1.6 percent profit, according to the Food Industry Association.<\/p>\n

Government-run stores have been tried and failed elsewhere. A city-operated store in Baldwin, Florida closed in 2024 after five years, because it consistently failed to reach the break-even point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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