New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Monday the location of the first city-run grocery store in the United States, a 20,000-square-foot market slated to open next year in Hunts Point, the Bronx, at a site chosen in part because the neighborhood has only one other full-service supermarket within a quarter mile, despite being home to one of the world's largest food distribution centers. The store will offer discounted prices on essential goods like eggs and produce, with other items sold at market rates. Mamdani has promised a city-run store in each of the five boroughs and has proposed $70 million in the upcoming city budget to fund them — a figure still being negotiated with the City Council.
