“Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan for a city-owned grocery market in East Harlem’s La Marqueta has a deeper problem than the absurdity of spending $30 million to launch a mere 9,000-square-foot store that won’t open until 2029.”

“If he took time off from grinning at gullible journalists, he’d find the blocks around the planned grocery site under the MetroNorth Park Avenue trestle at East 116th Street are already chock-full of bodegas and larger stores where prices for basics such as eggs, milk and soda are not only lower than at Gristedes, Morton Williams and Trader Joe’s – they’re far below.”

“Mamdani, who declined to say how much a cucumber at his brainstorm might cost, claimed at a press conference, “When New Yorkers come to city-run grocery stores, they will see a clear price differential” for staples such as bread and eggs.”