{"id":314329,"date":"2026-08-05T14:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314329\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T14:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:44:10","slug":"nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-confirms-id-will-be-required-to-buy-city-owned-groceries-sparking-backlash-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314329\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani Confirms ID Will Be Required to Buy City-Owned Groceries, Sparking Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced municipal grocery stores will require ID to access discounted items to restrict non-resident use. At a July 27 press conference, he said the policy for city-owned grocery stores aims to keep discounted food available to New Yorkers. Plans on NYC.gov set a core basket priced 30 percent below regular grocery stores. Mamdani cited the RFP language against reselling, and Economic Development Corporation president and CEO Jeanny Pak mentioned a library card\u2013esque system to manage buyers. On August 3, the X account Polymarket shared the update, prompting public comments, including a post from Senator Rand Paul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced municipal grocery stores will require ID to access discounted items to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[118699,19865,9,24,56,63,65,64,82],"class_list":["post-314329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-economic-development-corporation-president-and-ceo-jeanny-pak","tag-grocery-stores","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314329","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=314329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}