Ghosts of Former Soviet Union Leaders Grin As Mamdani's $30M NYC Communist Grocery Store Unveiled

Hollie · Apr 14, 2026

Congrats to NY city voters. Their wishes came true. Stalin would be so proud.

How soon are those free busses coming?

Ghosts of Former Soviet Union Leaders Grin As Mamdani's $30M NYC Communist Grocery Store Unveiled

NYC's first city-run $30M grocery store in East Harlem sparks debate over fairness and competition.

redstate.com

On Sunday, he announced that the city’s first city-run grocery store will open in East Harlem, and it will cost $30 million to build and take over a year to complete.

Even assuming New York City’s priciest union-driven construction costs, a standard-sized 25,000-square-foot grocery store should only be about $15 million to build, said Adam Lehodey, an expert at the Manhattan Institute.

“Thirty million dollars for one store is exceptionally high, considering land prices are a significant part of the capital costs of new construction, and the city has announced that rents will be waived,” he said.

The store will be required to pay no taxes or rent, yet the neighboring competitors will face those high costs. That is not capitalism, folks.

Thinker101 · Apr 14, 2026

Hollie said:
Congrats to NY city voters. Their wishes came true. Stalin would be so proud.

How soon are those free busses coming?

Ghosts of Former Soviet Union Leaders Grin As Mamdani's $30M NYC Communist Grocery Store Unveiled

NYC's first city-run $30M grocery store in East Harlem sparks debate over fairness and competition.

redstate.com

On Sunday, he announced that the city’s first city-run grocery store will open in East Harlem, and it will cost $30 million to build and take over a year to complete.

Even assuming New York City’s priciest union-driven construction costs, a standard-sized 25,000-square-foot grocery store should only be about $15 million to build, said Adam Lehodey, an expert at the Manhattan Institute.

“Thirty million dollars for one store is exceptionally high, considering land prices are a significant part of the capital costs of new construction, and the city has announced that rents will be waived,” he said.

The store will be required to pay no taxes or rent, yet the neighboring competitors will face those high costs. That is not capitalism, folks.

If they waive rent and taxes, all grocery stores could be cheaper.

Hollie · Apr 14, 2026

Thinker101 said:
If they waive rent and taxes, all grocery stores could be cheaper.

Sure, but it’s best to promote the stalin’ist / Islamist enabled stores by waving their taxes and rents thus driving out competition from other stores.

wamose · Apr 14, 2026

This is no more than taxpayers, subsidizing the cost of groceries. It's just another form of welfare. The state of education in NYC must be pretty shitty to have produced enough useful idiots to elect this communist POS.

Hollie · Apr 14, 2026

wamose said:
This is no more than taxpayers, subsidizing the cost of groceries. It's just another form of welfare. The state of education in NYC must be pretty shitty to have produced enough useful idiots to elect this communist POS.

Yep, and NYC taxpayers subsidize the cost of illegal aliens because taxpayer dollars are a bottomless pit.

1srelluc · Apr 14, 2026

Soon!

Trump should make sure not a nickel of fed money gets funneled into it....Let NYC bear the cost....Every single penny.

Manonthestreet · Apr 14, 2026

Independent thinker · Apr 15, 2026

Hollie said:
Congrats to NY city voters. Their wishes came true. Stalin would be so proud.

How soon are those free busses coming?

Ghosts of Former Soviet Union Leaders Grin As Mamdani's $30M NYC Communist Grocery Store Unveiled

NYC's first city-run $30M grocery store in East Harlem sparks debate over fairness and competition.

redstate.com

On Sunday, he announced that the city’s first city-run grocery store will open in East Harlem, and it will cost $30 million to build and take over a year to complete.

Even assuming New York City’s priciest union-driven construction costs, a standard-sized 25,000-square-foot grocery store should only be about $15 million to build, said Adam Lehodey, an expert at the Manhattan Institute.

“Thirty million dollars for one store is exceptionally high, considering land prices are a significant part of the capital costs of new construction, and the city has announced that rents will be waived,” he said.

The store will be required to pay no taxes or rent, yet the neighboring competitors will face those high costs. That is not capitalism, folks.

There had been a few of these groceries around the country and I believe they all went out of business. So, I don't expect this will last long. Major grocery chains only get about a 2% profit from their sales, so these groceries can't sell their groceries for much cheaper than a real grocery. Since their groceries won't be free these neighborhoods will make the groceries free all by themselves, which is an unsustainable business model. Contrary to what Mayor M thinks, tax payers aren't a bottomless pit of money, which is why all of these other same type of groceries all went out of business. You put these things in high crime, high theft areas and that's what you get, high crime and high theft.

ColonelAngus · Apr 16, 2026

How do city-owned grocery stores work? What to expect at NYC's first

What’s affordable, healthy, and consumed all over? Groceries from your local city-owned supermarket. Mayor Zohran Mamdani is generating some buzz this week with his announcement that New York City is gearing up to open its first batch. Joined by a number of city officials, Mamdani on Monday...

www.nbcnewyork.com

$30 million and 3 years because it is being built from the ground up and will use UNION WORKERS.

This is a scam and a giant theft of taxpayer money to pay back those who helped get Mamdani elected,

Here is a communist grocery store.

If ONLY CERTAIN ITEMS ARE CHEAPER…PEOPLE WILL GO ONLY FOR THOSE ITEMS.

Also, the private stores can lower their prices.

What Mamdani is doing is trying to put private stores out of business so that people rely on the government.

COMMUNISM DOES NOT WORK!

ColonelAngus · Apr 16, 2026

What happened to the whole HIGHER EGG PRICE APOCALYPSE?

Ohhhhh…..the bird flu is over, and now the chicken population has been restored….SO THERE ARE MORE EGGS!

ColonelAngus · Apr 16, 2026

One store should be $5M–$10M. Manhattan, so maybe $15 million AT THE VERY VERY VERY MOST.

$30 million is either very incompetent or corrupt.

Also, I PROMISE the final cost will exceed $30 million. Government projects, especially in BLUE areas, ALMOST ALWAYS TAKE LONGER AND COST MORE THAN INITIALLY COMMUNICATED.

candycorn · Apr 16, 2026

What is a bad idea for a local government (as this sounds like it is) can be a good idea in the macro. I’ve long held that we should do something like this on the federal level. Essentially it is the modern equivalent of “priming the pump” back during the depression.

The way it would work is like this. If you filed a tax return in (pick a year....2028), in 2029, you’re given a $50 stipend to spend. 400M filers X $50.00 is $20 Billion dollars a month or $240B a year. Yes we can afford it; considering out “conservative” presidents ahve spent upwards of 2-6 times that on defense every year. This would also replace a lot of the public assistance that the government dishes out in the form of WIC (to name one program). Every filer gets it; no qualification. If you make $10K a month, you’re getting it too.

The catch is this; the money is only good at the following location; simultaneously, the department of commerce opens an online marketplace that sells only American made products. By that I mean stuff that is made here from American materials. Set a % at that--I say at least 85% made here. Canned food will probably be the largest single segment of items available but I think we could rejuvenate (on a small scale) our textile industry with clothing, curtains, car seat covers, table cloths, cotton diapers, etc... Like the textiles American made furniture and electronics can benefit from the one of the things that is lacking the most; a distribution channel to consumers where price isn’t the determining factor. Few people think to themselves...”Wow, that TEMU end table is just the style I want.” They buy from TEMU because it is cheap. With the subsidy mentioned above, you can lower the price of the goods to Americans. Hel...lAmerican beer and wine can make a come-back and (where practical) can be delivered from wherever the distribution centers are to be located.

The $50 a month would accumulate too (to a total of $600--after that; no mas until you start spending it). If you want to save up for a North Carolina rocking chair...you can.

The key is to get Americans manufacturing again. It would help numerous other sectors but manufacturing drives a lot of spin offs. The can of corn in your cabinet employed the farmers, the cannery, the truckers who delivered it and the store who sold it. Imported cans (if there are such a thing) skip 1/2 of that supply chain. Not so good.

Lockback · Apr 16, 2026

ColonelAngus said:
How do city-owned grocery stores work? What to expect at NYC's first

What’s affordable, healthy, and consumed all over? Groceries from your local city-owned supermarket. Mayor Zohran Mamdani is generating some buzz this week with his announcement that New York City is gearing up to open its first batch. Joined by a number of city officials, Mamdani on Monday...

www.nbcnewyork.com

$30 million and 3 years because it is being built from the ground up and will use UNION WORKERS.

This is a scam and a giant theft of taxpayer money to pay back those who helped get Mamdani elected,

Here is a communist grocery store.

If ONLY CERTAIN ITEMS ARE CHEAPER…PEOPLE WILL GO ONLY FOR THOSE ITEMS.

Also, the private stores can lower their prices.

What Mamdani is doing is trying to put private stores out of business so that people rely on the government.

COMMUNISM DOES NOT WORK!

Commies gonna Commie.
What kind of idiot falls for this garbage?
Oh, New Yorkers. That's who.
Morons.

DGS49 · Apr 16, 2026

There is NOTHING that government does that is better than the private sector. Running a grocery store will be the same. The store will operate at a massive loss, it will sell inferior merchandise, and it will close when the taxpayers get tired of funding something that is better done by private stores.

Mashmont · Apr 16, 2026

ColonelAngus said:
How do city-owned grocery stores work? What to expect at NYC's first

What’s affordable, healthy, and consumed all over? Groceries from your local city-owned supermarket. Mayor Zohran Mamdani is generating some buzz this week with his announcement that New York City is gearing up to open its first batch. Joined by a number of city officials, Mamdani on Monday...

www.nbcnewyork.com

$30 million and 3 years because it is being built from the ground up and will use UNION WORKERS.

This is a scam and a giant theft of taxpayer money to pay back those who helped get Mamdani elected,

Here is a communist grocery store.

If ONLY CERTAIN ITEMS ARE CHEAPER…PEOPLE WILL GO ONLY FOR THOSE ITEMS.

Also, the private stores can lower their prices.

What Mamdani is doing is trying to put private stores out of business so that people rely on the government.

COMMUNISM DOES NOT WORK!

Government competing with the private sector grocery stores. What could go wrong? This is one of the dumber Communist ideas ever. 1) Taxpayers get screwed. 2) Grocery stores get screwed.

Stupid people elect failed ideas.

SeaMajor7 · Apr 16, 2026

CLOWN WORLD

1srelluc · Apr 16, 2026

Dupe

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Apr 14, 2026

Congrats to NY city voters. Their wishes came true. Stalin would be so proud.

How soon are those free busses coming?