{"id":235526,"date":"2026-05-18T17:21:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/235526\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T17:21:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:21:14","slug":"nycs-first-city-run-grocery-store-set-to-open-in-bronx-next-year-mamdani-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/235526\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC’s first city-run grocery store set to open in Bronx next year, Mamdani says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday announced another location for one of the city\u2019s planned government-run grocery stores, this one set to open in the Bronx next year.<\/p>\n

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a> on Monday announced another location for one of the city\u2019s five planned government-run grocery stores.<\/p>\n

The store will be located in the Bronx at what Mamdani called The Peninsula, a planned mixed-use campus that will also offer affordable housing and a health and wellness center in the Hunts Point neighborhood. It is scheduled to open some time in 2027.<\/p>\n

“This store will be the first of the five city-run grocery stores to<\/a> open,” Mamdani told reporters during a press conference. “Bronx residents will be able to begin shopping here next year.”<\/p>\n

“It is going to be a 20,000 square-foot location, and its ambition is perfectly placed at The Peninsula, which will house 740 units of 100% affordable housing by the time that it’s fully built,” the mayor continued.<\/p>\n

SOCIALIST MAMDANI TOUTS GOVERNMENT-RUN GROCERY PLAN AS \u2018GRAND EXPERIMENT\u2019’ AT GROCERY NEW SITE<\/a><\/p>\n

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Zohran Mamdani, mayor of New York, speaks during a news conference presenting the fiscal year 2027 executive budget at City Hall in New York, on Tuesday, May 12, 2026. (Michael Nagle\/Bloomberg via Getty Images \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The Peninsula will be located on the site of the former Spofford Juvenile Detention Facility.<\/p>\n

Mamdani previously announced an East Harlem location for the city’s flagship 9,000 square-foot Manhattan location, but that store will be built from the ground up and is slated to open in 2029.<\/p>\n

The East Harlem site is estimated to cost $30 million, according to the New York Times<\/a>. It was unclear how much the location at The Peninsula would cost.<\/p>\n

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks at a press conference at Deno’s Wonder Wheel on Coney Island in the New York City Borough of Brooklyn, New York City, on Feb. 15, 2026. (\u00a0Kyle Mazza\/Anadolu via Getty Images \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n

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The total budget allocated for the development of the five city-run grocery stores is $70 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mamdani has touted the city-run grocery store plan<\/a> as a “grand experiment” that would reduce the cost of everyday items like bread and eggs.<\/p>\n

He has previously promised to open one such store in each borough, saying the city will subsidize basic grocery items while a private operator runs the stores under city rules requiring lower prices.<\/p>\n

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Mamdani has previously promised to open one such store in each borough, vowing to reduce the prices of items like bread and eggs. (iStock \/ iStock)<\/p>\n

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Mamdani has said the city-run stores would be part of a broader “ecosystem” and would not replace existing grocers, including bodegas and neighborhood supermarkets, amid questions about their impact on\u00a0small businesses<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital\u2019s Michael Dorgan contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday announced another location for one of the city\u2019s planned government-run…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-235526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235526","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=235526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}