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$55M boondoggle
Coverage of $55M boondoggle in the Nexus archive.
- Mamdani’s East Harlem grocery store site already got $25M in NYC taxpayer funds years ago — setting stage for $55M boondoggle
Mamdani’s East Harlem grocery store site received $25 million in NYC taxpayer funds years ago, now criticized as a $55 million boondoggle. Columbia professor Stephen Zagor sarcastically remarked on the project’s perceived extravagance.