The mayor who loves bodegas is building taxpayer-funded competitors

The mayor who loves bodegas is building taxpayer-funded competitors

Throughout his nascent tenure, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has positioned himself as a champion of Big Apple small businesses. Just two weeks onto the job, he declared: "You cannot tell the story of New York without our small businesses." He went on to decry costly city regulations that have "long made it too hard for these same businesses to open their doors." Perhaps on account of his love for food, Mamdani has shown particular adoratio…