Her immigrant parents built a NYC grocery store from scratch. Now Mamdani's experiment could end it

"It's going to be $1," Josefina Aguirre said to a customer, pausing an interview with Fox News Digital inside her family's Spanish Harlem meat market.

"Okay, I'm sorry. I got a couple of customers. Let's start over," Aguirre, a first-generation American, said. "This is me," she added with a laugh from behind the counter where she has worked for the past 30 years.

Aguirre is among the neighborhood grocers suing New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani over his plan to open city-backed grocery stores across all five boroughs.