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BRONX TIMES REPORTER, D 12 ECEMBER 13-19, 2019 BTR
The news that Amazon has agreed
to lease offi ce space in Manhattan’s
Hudson Yards for more than 1,500
employees stirred up some ghosts
along Anable Basin on the Long Island
City waterfront.
Amazon had planned to build its
massive HQ2 campus in Long Island
City and promised to bring 25,000
jobs over the next 10 years, until facing
fi erce opposition from elected offi
cials, who said offering $3 billion in
tax incentives was feeding corporate
greed.
A signifi cant coalition of community
groups concerned with gentrifi
cation, technical support for ICE,
and anti-union policies led the ecommerce
giant to scrap the plan last
February.
“Amazon is coming to New York
just as they planned,” state Senator
Michael Gianaris said. “Fortunately,
we dodged a $3 billion bullet by not
agreeing to their subsidy shakedown
earlier this year.”
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio
Cortez joined in the victory lap
with a frivolous post on Twitter.
But 1,500 jobs in Manhattan do
As some celebrate Amazon’s agreement to lease offi ce space in Manhattan, we remember
the missed opportunity of the failed Long Island City deal. : File photo
not equate to the 25,000 jobs promised
and lost in the failed
Amazon LIC deal. Crunch the
numbers every which way, and 1,500
will never be equal to 25,000. It’s simple
math.
So we fail to understand, as Governor
Andrew Cuomo does, the victory
lap over the Manhattan Amazon
deal.
Cuomo, the main broker of the
HQ2 deal chastised the opponents of
the HQ2 plan in a recent AP interview.
“This is crumbs from the table
compared to a feast,” Cuomo said.
“We don’t have a problem bringing
businesses to Manhattan but we have
been trying for decades to get that
Queens waterfront developed.”
The lease Amazon inked at Hudson
Yards is for existing offi ce space,
not the HQ2 campus that would have
created more than 10,000 union construction
jobs.
So Amazon has come in, without
getting a taxpayer dime, and decided
to create 1,500 jobs in Manhattan.
That’s nice.
That doesn’t, however, make up
for the lost promise on the Long Island
City waterfront.
It could have been something,
instead it got a bum rap from politicians
who couldn’t see the forest
from the trees.
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