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Multicultural Business Coalition Sues Over Mayor’s Grocery Plan

8/27/2026

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The Multicultural Business Coalition filed two lawsuits in New York County Supreme Court against Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s city-run grocery plan.
The coalition says the subsidized stores would undercut bodega owners, violating civil rights and threatening minority entrepreneurs.
Business leaders and bodega owners protested outside the American Deli Mini Market in Harlem.
Mark Jaffe, Greater New York Chamber of Commerce president, called the plan a “campaign promise doomed for disaster.”
One suit alleges taxpayer subsidies violate multicultural business owners’ civil rights; the other seeks an injunction pending required studies.

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The Multicultural Business Coalition filed two lawsuits in New York County Supreme Court against Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s city-run grocery plan.
The coalition says the subsidized stores would undercut bodega owners, violating civil rights and threatening minority entrepreneurs.
Business leaders and bodega owners protested outside the American Deli Mini Market in Harlem.
Mark Jaffe, Greater New York Chamber of Commerce president, called the plan a “campaign promise doomed for disaster.”
One suit alleges taxpayer subsidies violate multicultural business owners’ civil rights; the other seeks an injunction pending required studies.