{"id":198156,"date":"2026-04-15T15:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/198156\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T15:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:30:21","slug":"city-run-grocery-stores-to-be-in-every-borough-in-nyc-mayor-mamdani-says-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/198156\/","title":{"rendered":"City-run grocery stores to be in every borough in NYC, Mayor Mamdani says"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a> said over the weekend that he will go forward with his plans to open five city-run grocery stores.<\/p>\n

The first grocery store will be set up in East Harlem next year, according to The Washington Post.<\/a><\/p>\n

When Mamdani ran for mayor in 2025, he ran on a democratic socialist platform with promises of city-run grocery stores and freezing the rent.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI was elected as a democratic socialist, and I will govern as democratic socialist,\u201d Mamdani said over the weekend. \u201cWith what we accomplished in 14 weeks, imagine what we can do in four years. Government is a series of choices, and socialism is the choice to fight for every New Yorker.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mamdani said that the groceries at the city-run stores will be cheaper than other grocery stores like Aldi, Costco and Target.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt our stores, eggs will be cheaper,\u201d he said. \u201cBread will be cheaper. Grocery shopping will no longer be an unsolvable equation. Now, some will insist that city-owned businesses do not work. That government cannot keep up with corporations. My answer to them is simple: I look forward to the competition.\u201d<\/p>\n

Members of United Bodegas of America said last year that city-owned grocery stores would be harmful to private businesses, according to NBC 4 New York.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no way that New York City can take over and install bodegas run by the government,\u201d said Fernando Mateo, the spokesperson for UBA.<\/p>\n

There was a city-owned grocery store in Kansas City, Missouri but it was closed due to steep losses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said over the weekend that he will go forward…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[18817,78958,7511,6808,9,24,55,54,56,78959,78960,82],"class_list":["post-198156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-affordable-groceries","tag-city-run-grocery","tag-democratic-socialism","tag-east-harlem","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-private-businesses","tag-united-bodegas-of-america","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198156","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=198156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}