It was a bad idea. It’s on Long Island, in an area where infrastructure, density, and traffic are already out of hand. They’d get a tax break and the town it’s in would get revenue. What about surrounding towns that would suffer the impact, with no tax benefits? Is that really a sensible place to put it?
” Is that really a sensible place to put it?”
No that’s not “sensible”. Replace a semi abandoned old warehouse district with an East Coast “Silicon Valley”? Of course not! It would not be Sustainable! It would not promote Social Justice! The crumbling old warehouses would be better than that!
It’s not in LI, it’s in Queens.
It would still affect the infrastructure, but it wouldn’t be as bad as trying to go to Farmingdale, Port Washington or the Hamptons from B’klyn or Manhattan.
“It was a bad idea.”
I can see immediately that you are intimately familiar with the area. “It’s on Long Island”. Yes. On the East river directly across from the Manhattan skyline. “On Long Island”! “And the town it’s in would get revenue.” The “Town” that it’s in! That “Town” is called “Queens” a Borough of NYC! You have never even visited New York City, have you?
It was NOT on Long Island, my dear. It was in Queens. Long Island City is in Queens, which is part of NYC. But yes, it's very congested over there, impossible to find parking, people living right on top of one another.
Long Island City which is Queens.
Of course, Brooklyn is part of NYC as well (although, like Queens, "geographically" on Long Island).