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At $55M, Mamdani’s city-owned grocery store is a GROWING boondoggle

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It turns out Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s East Harlem grocery store project is an even bigger boondoggle than we thought.

A Post Business exclusive this week revealed that the La Marqueta site where Mamdani’s plans to spend $30 million was already approved for a $25 million upgrade nine years ago — meaning the taxpayers will burn $55 million on this white elephant.

Plus operating costs that the mayor hasn’t even pretended to........

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