{"id":194769,"date":"2026-04-12T23:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T23:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/194769\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T23:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T23:18:09","slug":"nycs-first-city-owned-grocery-store-under-lefty-mayor-mamdani-to-open-in-east-harlem-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/194769\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC’s first city-owned grocery store under lefty Mayor Mamdani to open in East Harlem: report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s first city-owned grocery store will be in East Harlem<\/a> and cost about $30 million, a report said Sunday.<\/p>\n

The store will be in La Marqueta<\/a>, 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<\/a>.<\/p>\n

La Marqueta is already owned by the city.<\/p>\n

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is expected to announce plans to open the first city-owned grocery store in East Harlem. Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The market at La Marqueta aims to open by 2029, part of Mamdani\u2019s five-borough plan. Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Mamdani was expected to announce the Manhattan market plan<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

The store would be the first of five city-owned groceries the mayor <\/a>made bold promises to build during his campaign.<\/p>\n

Mamdani\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

His plan was to put one market in each of the five boroughs.<\/p>\n

The East Harlem store uses nearly half of the $70M program budget and offers discount groceries. Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Mamdani\u2019s NYC grocery stores scheme draws fresh scrutiny as a video of empty, city-owned Missouri market goes viral. KSHB<\/p>\n

He thinks the move will lower food costs<\/a> for poorer New Yorkers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cannot accept a status quo where even the most basic necessity \u2014 putting food on the table \u2014 feels out of reach,\u201d Mamdani told the Times in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is about ensuring that every New Yorker, regardless of income or ZIP code, has access to fresh, healthy food at a price they can afford,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The store would operate out of La Marqueta for no rent and offer groceries at a discount rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s first city-owned grocery store will be in East Harlem and cost about $30 million, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[57,9,56,63,65,64,9936,58,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-194769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-metro","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-ny","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-nyc-headlines","13":"tag-nyc-news","14":"tag-supermarkets","15":"tag-us-news","16":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}