Mamdani plan includes 5 city-run grocery markets — with massive price tag

Socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has revealed his plans for city-run grocery stores, a key promise he made to get into office.

Mamdani touted a similar experiment in 1936 by then-Mayor Fiero LaGuardia that provided city-run markets for New Yorkers in the throes of the Great Depression.

‘You know, it’s going to be more turmoil than anything else. It’s a great punch line for him and for the socialist movement. But New York is not a socialist city.’

“It cut overhead for pushcart vendors and lowered consumer cost,” Mamdani said during his 100 Days address on Sunday evening.

“LaGuardia said it was ‘an answer to those who said they had been forgotten,'” he added. “The New York Times described it succinctly, ‘City tries experiment.’ New York City,