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“It’s a socialist move that goes against the American Dream,” said Nallely De Jesus, vice president of a company that runs five supermarkets in the Bronx.

In the heady years after Sen. Bernie Sanders’ first presidential campaign, the organization threw its backing behind several members who ran for political office across the city and won, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from the Bronx and north-central Queens, state Sen. Jabari Brisport from Brooklyn, and Mamdani, hailing from Astoria in northwestern Queens.

Even the conditional approvals have yielded just 78 outdoor setups in the Bronx, the city’s poorest borough, down from more than 1,000 in recent years.

Hernández had seen the proof of concept too, when Yamamoto blanked the New York Yankees over seven spectacular innings in the Bronx in June.

The final sunset of Ramadan last week found me below a mosque in the Bronx, in a basement cafeteria, elbow to elbow with hungry Muslims awaiting that last fast-breaking meal of the year.