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 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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