“I’m so hungry and so cold,” a bundled-up young woman told The Post through chattering teeth, as she waited for food in frigid temperatures early Friday morning.

The New Yorker was one of hundreds who’d made the rush hour trek to TriBeCa for sustenance — standing in a long line that stretched back an entire city block.

The eager hordes were awaiting the 11 a.m. opening of Meadow Lane, a hotly-anticipated gourmet grocer from TikTokker Sammy Nussdorf at 355 Greenwich St. — and their eyes were on $15 orders of organic chicken nuggets, $16 helpings of bone broth, and trendy matcha lattes.

Amid an affordability crisis that helped to propel Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani to Mayoral victory and recent anxiety over SNAP benefit cuts , Meadow Lane’s grand debut Friday morning might have

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