Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s city-backed grocery option is his latest signature policy to land in court, after a small business group sued the city Monday. The rollout of five grocery stores that aim to bring cheaper staple goods to every borough is currently seeking private operators to run each, or all of, its markets. But the city hasn’t properly studied how the arrival of subsidized stores could hit small businesses that already exist in those neighborhoods, the Multicultural Business Coalition claimed in a complaint filed in state Supreme Court. Mamdani previously announced that the city will cover costs related to the […]

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