{"id":196249,"date":"2026-04-14T01:04:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T01:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196249\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T01:04:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T01:04:33","slug":"why-zohran-mamdanis-tribute-to-fiorello-la-guardia-is-self-damning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196249\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Zohran Mamdani&#8217;s tribute to Fiorello La Guardia is self-damning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm: $30 million to build a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/13\/us-news\/staggering-8-figure-sum-nyc-taxpayers-will-pay-to-fund-mamdanis-first-city-owner-grocery-revealed\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">single grocery store<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Zohran Mamdani made a big deal of siting his first city-owned grocery by La Marqueta, the marketplace his distant predecessor Fiorello La Guardia opened in East Harlem to help locals save on fruits and vegetables, but the tribute\u2019s barely worth TikTok-level scrutiny. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No way would Mayor La Guardia smile on the \u201csewer socialism\u201d that Mamdani is pitching: Such gold-plated boondoggles would only earn contempt from New York City\u2019s Depression-era chief executive.<\/p>\n<p>Not least because La Guardia never would\u2019ve indulged a vanity project that\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/13\/business\/mamdanis-30m-plan-to-open-nyc-owned-supermarket-stuns-grocery-executives\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">likely to undercut other hard-working grocers <\/a>in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, La Guardia never considered himself a socialist: He was, in fact . . . <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/01\/16\/poll-shows-new-yorkers-want-their-new-mayor-to-fix-nyc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a Republican<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hmm: $30 million to build a single grocery store? Mayor Zohran Mamdani made a big deal of siting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[304,42589,1442,9,24,63,299,122,124,123,1211,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-196249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-editorial","9":"tag-great-depression","10":"tag-mayors","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-opinion","15":"tag-queens","16":"tag-queens-headlines","17":"tag-queens-news","18":"tag-socialism","19":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196249","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=196249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}