Mayor of New York City Zohran Mamdani announced Monday another location for one of five government grocery stores planned in the city.
The store will be located in the Bronx, in what Mamdani called The Peninsula, a mixed-use campus that will also offer affordable housing and a health and wellness center in the Hunts Point neighborhood. Its opening is scheduled for 2027.
“This store will be the first in five municipal grocery stores open,” Mamdani told reporters at a news conference. “Bronx residents will be able to start shopping here next year.”
“It will be a 20,000 square foot location, and its ambition is perfectly placed in The Peninsula, which will house 740 units of 100% affordable housing by the time it is fully built out,” the mayor continued.
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Zohran Mamdani, Mayor of New York, speaks during a press conference introducing the FY 2027 Executive Budget at City Hall in New York, Tuesday, May 12, 2026. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
The peninsula will be located on the site of the former Spofford Juvenile Detention Center.
Mamdani previously announced an East Harlem location for the city’s 9,000-square-foot flagship Manhattan location, but that store will be built from the ground up and is expected to open in 2029.
The cost of the East Harlem site is estimated at $30 million, according to the New York Times. It was unclear how much the location at The Peninsula would cost.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks during a press conference at Deno’s Wonder Wheel on Coney Island in the Brooklyn borough of New York on February 15, 2026. (Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images / Getty Images)
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The total budget allocated to the development of the five municipal grocery stores amounts to $70 million.
Mamdani praised the city-run grocery plan as a “great experiment” that would reduce the cost of everyday products like bread and eggs.
He previously promised to open one such store in every borough, saying the city would subsidize basic groceries while a private operator would run the stores under city rules requiring lower prices.
Mamdani had previously promised to open one such store in every borough, pledging to reduce prices of items like bread and eggs. (iStock/iStock)
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Mamdani said the city-run stores would be part of a broader “ecosystem” and would not replace existing grocers, including bodegas and neighborhood supermarkets, amid questions about their impact on small businesses.
Michael Dorgan of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
