Mamdani’s Grocery Plan Fights Food Insecurity
By Yasser Salem
I remember the first time I set foot inside Jetro, a wholesale market in Brooklyn. My parents used to drive a yellow station wagon from Yorkville to Flatlands in Brooklyn. If I was lucky, my family would make a day trip out of it and head over to Coney Island.
Those trips to Jetro — and subsequent trips to places like Costco, showed me the lengths to which families would go to get food at reasonable prices. Here we are, 30 years later, and affordable food is scarcer than ever. The food disaster critics of Zohran Mamdani warn about is already happening in New York City, which is why the time has arrived to test municipal grocery stores.