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Drives me nuts hearing about "food deserts" in this NYC-owned grocery store discourse. NYC does not have food deserts. It has expensive, low-quality groceries. The first city-owned store (La Marqueta) is in the middle; every red pin in a full-service grocery store. Not a bodega, not a greengrocer.

They literally did studies and there is a technocratic solution that is even vaguely socialist. The problem is that distribution is very expensive as there is a lack of warehouse space within the city. Build warehouses and lease them to mid size distribution.

You can look at the original seminal study here. The warehouse space was actually in Mamdani’s proposal before the election butnit has been dropped. There are further studies about how cities like NYC have this problem because of land costs. www.nyc.gov/site/foodpol...

Then there is the Hunt’s Point modernization which was more focused on midsize producers in NY state access distribution but it is a different thing. agriculture.ny.gov/system/files...

That suggested an up to 100000 sq ft warehouse space in the Bronx along with Hunts Point which would lower prices for mid size stores.