Mamdani on Minority Owned NYC Grocers Suing over City-Run Grocery Stores: It Will Stand up in Court

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MAMDANI: “I continue to be fully confident in both the legality and the importance of our initiative to deliver five city-run grocery stores, one in each borough, to the people of our city. We are talking about a reflection of a cost-of-living crisis that has seen grocery prices increase by about 30 percent over the last few years. And we're also talking about delivering five city-run grocery stores in a city of 8.5 million people that has more than a 1,000 grocery stores. And we've seen, in fact, with Essex Street Market in Manhattan, as well as Moore Street Market in Brooklyn, a model where the city has subsidized groceries and it has not had a negative effect on bodegas around them or on grocery stores around them. And I'm confident both in the legality of this, that it will stand up in court, and in the importance of delivering it.”