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EPISODE · Aug 27, 2026 · 32 MIN

[News] Five Stores and a Ninety-Year-Old Market: What New York's City-Owned Grocery Plan Actually Is

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New York has committed $70 million of capital money to build five stores that private operators will run on city-owned land, the first of them a public market the city has owned since 1936, and the 30 percent discount at the center of the fight rests on an annual subsidy the city has not yet put a number on.

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