How will Mayor Mamdani make his groceries work? First, smoke some more pot . . . |
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How will Mayor Mamdani make his groceries work? First, smoke some more pot . . .
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Is Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s farcical city-run-grocery scheme ever going to be more than a façade that simply serves to score cred with Che-loving TikTokers?
Last week, city Economic Development Corp. bigs took prospective bidders on contracts to run the stores on a tour of . . . a vacant lot in East Harlem.
What a waste: People with real work to do got pony-walked around a patch of asphalt under the Metro North tracks in East Harlem.
Bids to run a Mamdani Mart are supposedly due mid-October, though City Hall has yet to issue remotely enough specs on how the whole thing’s going to work.
The concept has always sounded like something cooked up in a late-night, stoned college-dorm discussion — and still hasn’t been fleshed out much more than that.
So the only reason........