Leaders of a key New York City bodega and restaurant group are taking the rare step of speaking out about the mayoral election and throwing their support behind Andrew Cuomo — just days after a rival group got rocked over a Zohran Mamdani endorsement, The Post has learned.

“We don’t endorse candidates,” said Francisco Marte, founder and president of the Bodega and Small Business Group, which represents some 3,000 bodegas, barber shops, beauty salons, mechanics and restaurants in the Big Apple.

“But we favor Andrew Cuomo,” Marte told The Post. “He’s the best of what we have now.”

At issue for many of these small businesses are Mamdani’s plans to open city-owned grocery stores that would offer customers wholesale prices. Small business owners, especially retailers, have likewise been ra

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