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WOR Street Reporter Natalie Migliore Interviews · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now it's sevent ten wars Beat on the Street with
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  Speaker 1: Natalie Migliori, well Zerr and Mom Donnie's city run grocery
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  Speaker 1: stores are going to become a reality. How do you
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  Speaker 1: feel about it? Natalie Migliori found out in her Beat
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  Speaker 1: on the Street. What's the matter? You're making a grimacing face.
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  Speaker 2: No, I mean, we're just one step closer to this
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  Speaker 2: really coming to life. A bunch of potential operators are
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  Speaker 2: touring two of the first sites this week. Earlier this
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  Speaker 2: week they toured the Bronx site, and today they're going
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  Speaker 2: to tour one in East Harlem. The stores will have
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  Speaker 2: a thirty percent discount on essential items like milk, meat,
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  Speaker 2: and produce, and those discounts are going to be paid
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  Speaker 2: for by the city. So Mayor Mom Donnie introduced the
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  Speaker 2: concept months ago. It's had we've had time to settle
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  Speaker 2: in with it. But will it work?
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  Speaker 3: I just don't want to see corruption in any way,
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  Speaker 3: and that's something like it sounds like it could be
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  Speaker 3: pay to play kind of thing. And I've been around
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  Speaker 3: long enough to just be suspicious.
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  Speaker 4: What are you solving from this? You know you have
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  Speaker 4: meals on wheels, you have pantries. You have all the churches.
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  Speaker 4: Our church over here has a pantry, you know, and
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  Speaker 4: they're snap everywhere you go. There's things that are set
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  Speaker 4: up and I just find just continuously layer it and
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  Speaker 4: layer it and layer it up. If those things aren't working,
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  Speaker 4: fixed those they're in place already.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Mayor Mum Donnie has said building out the store
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  Speaker 2: and stocking it's going to cost about thirty million dollars.
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  Speaker 2: The site in the Bronx is located in the Hunts
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  Speaker 2: Point section and near an affordable housing development where one hundreds,
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  Speaker 2: if not thousands of people live. It's a major multi
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  Speaker 2: use complex. So with discount subsidized by the city, our
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  Speaker 2: New Yorkers worried about another subsidy maybe shoplifting in a
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  Speaker 2: place like.
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  Speaker 5: This, absolutely, I mean, but if they can put a
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  Speaker 5: lot of things, the cameras and everything to be more
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  Speaker 5: safety there, I think that would be something good.
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  Speaker 6: Unfortunately, that's just let's see of the world, and no
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  Speaker 6: matter where you live, that's just how it is, right.
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  Speaker 6: But you would hope, like if it's discounted and they're
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  Speaker 6: trying to get help and try to reduce pricess as much,
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  Speaker 6: it wouldn't. But that's just we kind of have to
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  Speaker 6: be realistic on that part.
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  Speaker 4: Right, everything is going to be taken off of the
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  Speaker 4: shelves and you're just going to be replenishing and replenishing
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  Speaker 4: stuff that's just going to be stolen.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 2: New Yorkers know how expensive it's gotten to live here,
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  Speaker 2: with the USDA saying grocery prices across the nation have
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  Speaker 2: increased roughly thirty three percent since twenty nineteen and an
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  Speaker 2: average of three percent over the past year. So how
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  Speaker 2: expensive is it getting to stay here in the city.
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  Speaker 3: I'm an a fixed income and it's making me rethink
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  Speaker 3: a lot of things.
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  Speaker 6: It's ridiculous. I have to work two jobs to be
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  Speaker 6: able to make ends meet, and I live with family.
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  Speaker 6: So it's not even that I'm living by myself. I
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  Speaker 6: live with family. I have a great paying job. But
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  Speaker 6: it doesn't it doesn't matter. Everything is ridiculous. The price
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  Speaker 6: of gus, groceries, daily living, expensive, all of it.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we're in a rent stabilized apartment like Curtis, so
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  Speaker 4: we kind of we're in a bubble. But if not
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  Speaker 4: for that, I.
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  Speaker 6: Don't know where we would be.
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  Speaker 4: Parts on parts on your discount, and we're seniors. So
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  Speaker 4: we have to use our senior discounts wherever we go,
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  Speaker 4: give me my discount, damn it. And that's basically it.
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  Speaker 4: That's the only way we're surviving.
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  Speaker 5: Now he's wrong there. Remember the only one who was
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  Speaker 5: in a rent stabilized apartment in the race was Johan Mandami. Well,
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  Speaker 5: we have an apartment. It's not rent stabilized. Trust me,
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  Speaker 5: we pay a lot of rent.
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  Speaker 2: Well that couple whatever. They they actually are the first people.
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  Speaker 2: They're big fans of us, Michael and Roma, and they're
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  Speaker 2: the first people who I ever approached. When I said, Hi,
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  Speaker 2: I'm Natalie and I'm with WR News, I'm with iHeartRadio,
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  Speaker 2: they said, Migliori And that was the coolest thing ever.
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  Speaker 2: I always cried, I heard.
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  Speaker 1: About this, you know, I heard about it. You came
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  Speaker 1: running in Thrill this morning, going.
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  Speaker 5: You won't believe this.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't believe it. I literally was shocked. I literally
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  Speaker 2: looked at.
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  Speaker 5: Them and was like, you know me, I feel so
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  Speaker 5: bad now that I had to correct them.
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  Speaker 2: And they like you too.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but it's true. We would not rent stabilize that.
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  Speaker 2: And they were very complimentary and they were awesome, and
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  Speaker 2: I just want to say like, that was the coolest thing.
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  Speaker 2: So Michael and Roma, I told them they made my week.
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  Speaker 2: I've been doing this for a few years now and
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  Speaker 2: to have that.
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  Speaker 5: It was really really cool, big time.
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  Speaker 2: They deserved it. They deserved it out. They listen to
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  Speaker 2: us every morning.
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  Speaker 1: So another year is going to be so commonplace. You're
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  Speaker 1: gonna go, I'm sorry, I'll go you want something signed, No.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna be I'm gonna be standing out these uh
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  Speaker 2: the city run grocery stores that are set to open
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty seven, like and would you get? And
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  Speaker 2: which would you get me? Because I know you're thinking
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  Speaker 2: of me.
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  Speaker 5: Well, the first one is hunch Point. If you had
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  Speaker 5: to pick a spot because I don't think it'll work,
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  Speaker 5: that's the best spot to pick because so few stores
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  Speaker 5: in the area. You're separated. Bruckner separates you from everything.
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  Speaker 5: So pressure's on. He's got to deliver on this because
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  Speaker 5: he owns this. It's never been done before in New
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  Speaker 5: York City.
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  Speaker 2: And if it works, it works. We'll have to see.
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  Speaker 2: Only time will tell. You've got at least another year
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  Speaker 2: until one opens, and then then the second one s
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  Speaker 2: lead it's open in twenty twenty nine, so he'd have
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  Speaker 2: to kind of stick get a second term too, to
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  Speaker 2: see how it really plays out.
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  Speaker 5: Alatally, we look forward to you rejoining us tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: At seven point fifty established