The Mark Simone Show on 710 W.O.R. Well, Steve Kuzzo, the great New York Post columnist. Now, nobody better on real estate, nobody better on restaurants on New York. You can get all of his columns. They're all up at the New York Post website. Steve Kuzzo, how you doing? Hey, good morning, Maude. I'm great, thank you.

It's great to be back in New York. Yeah, we'll get to Florida in a second. You wrote about the Mamdani grocery stores. You know, we're just saying, whenever the government, government does anything, they do it badly, whether it's housing, apartment, whatever they do it, they stink at it. What makes them think they can run a grocery store?

Well, I mean, they can't. And, you know, since this ridiculous thing was announced a couple of weeks ago, my colleagues here at the Post and other writers elsewhere, TV, have all taken a look

at this plan and said it's ridiculous because it costs so much money.

There would be one in the East Harlem under the Metro North tracks, what used to be called

La Marquette when there were any real stores there.

And it would cost, it's going to cost the city out of taxpayer funds 30 million dollars to

open a measly 9000 square foot grocery store uh and it will take four years to build this is

you know hilarious hysterical comical on its face but i took a look at a different aspect of it

which is uh not the the absurdity of the cost and all these issues.

But why the hell is it needed in the first place?

You know, the supposed reason that Mamdani and his echo chamber people have always put out, you know, on the left,

is that people who live in, you know, lower income left, is that people who live in under, you know, lower income

neighborhoods, and East Harlem does have a lower median income than most of the rest of the

city, they suffer because there's no good food available. And when there is, it's the,

the merchants gouge, they overcharge compared to other neighborhoods

so i went up there and i just took a walk around and found out that that's complete belong

it's hysterically ridiculous i mean within 100 feet of where the new city run market would go along

uh would be on 11 hundred 16th street 100 feet there's a beautiful

supermarket called city city fresh market which is part of a group's part of a chain and it's a

giant supermarket it's not a small it's not a bogega beautifully lit it's uh well stocked clean

clean and here's the the main point the prices are low the prices are much lower on uh lots and lots

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