{"id":195807,"date":"2026-04-13T19:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/195807\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T19:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:12:08","slug":"staggering-8-figure-sum-nyc-taxpayers-will-pay-to-fund-mamdanis-first-city-owned-grocery-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/195807\/","title":{"rendered":"Staggering 8 figure sum NYC taxpayers will pay to fund Mamdani&#8217;s first city owned grocery revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/12\/us-news\/nycs-first-city-owned-grocery-store-under-lefty-mayor-mamdani-to-open-in-east-harlem-report\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first-unveiled city-owned grocery store<\/a> will cost $30 million to build from the ground up at East Harlem\u2019s longstanding La Marqueta, officials confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The La Marqueta site \u2013 announced by Mamdani during a Sunday celebration of his first 100 days in office \u2013 may be the first site selected for the mayor\u2019s promised five city-owned grocery stores, but other locations will be picked and opened sooner, City Hall officials told The Post on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani\u2019s administration is currently scouring the city for locations that don\u2019t require a full ground-up build, officials said. The city has budgeted an initial $70 million to fund the city-owned stores.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.66699219;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39074087\" width=\"394\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-8-1.jpg\" alt=\"Mamdani grocery store\" class=\"wp-image-39074087\"  \/>Mayor Mamdani\u2019s first city-owned grocery store comes with a hefty price tag for NYC taxpayers. Zohran Mamdani \/ TikTok<\/p>\n<p>The selection of La Marqueta, however, carries symbolic weight that Mamdani was keen to point out \u2013 his idol, former Mayor Fiorella La Guardia, had established the marketplace as a location during the 1930s where working people could save money on fruits and vegetables.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will continue his legacy,\u201d Mamdani said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are building a brand-new store on city-owned land currently sitting empty in East Harlem, a neighborhood where nearly 40% of households received public assistance or SNAP in the past year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.33333333;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39074085\" width=\"787\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/grocery1.jpg\" alt=\"East Harlem Mamdani grocery store NYC\" class=\"wp-image-39074085\"  \/>The East Harlem location for the city\u2019s first grocery store. Luiz Ribeiro for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>La Marqueta is one of <a href=\"https:\/\/publicmarkets.nyc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">six public markets<\/a> in New York City, including Essex Market and the Jamaica Farmers Market.<\/p>\n<p>This is a breaking story. Please check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s first-unveiled city-owned grocery store will cost $30 million to build from the ground up at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[57,9,24,56,63,65,64,58,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-195807","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-new-york-city","11":"tag-ny","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-nyc-headlines","14":"tag-nyc-news","15":"tag-us-news","16":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195807","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=195807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}