Posted on 02/15/2019 1:46:56 PM PST by NoLibZone
The deal drew opposition even before it was officially announced.
The news that Amazon picked Queens as one of its coveted second headquarters in exchange for nearly $3 billion in tax subsidies broke the day before the 2018 midterm elections, and negative reactions from a newly energized left wing grew quickly in New York City.
The company, valued at $800 billion as of early February, hosted a beauty pageant of a search for what was believed to be a single headquarters, only to split its workforce and settle on two already-thriving East Coast cities. New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, out of favor with his party’s progressive wing, joked about changing his name to “Amazon,” a not-so-subtle wink and nod to selling out that sounded particularly tone-deaf to his Queens constituents. Most significantly, the deal was approved through a process that prevented city officials and residents from weighing in at all — let alone vetoing the plan.
The opposition to the project united an array of advocacy groups, elected officials and activists rallying over concerns about affordable housing, infrastructure, environmental causes and labor. Among the opponents were officials such as Ramos and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), part of a crop of liberal lawmakers who unseated centrist Democrats during the primaries last summer.
The opposition also included local chapters of the progressive groups that have grown since President Trump’s election, such as Indivisible, True Blue and the Democratic Socialists of America, the same organizers who propelled Ocasio-Cortez to a surprise victory in her race for Congress. The group held a town hall in Astoria about the deal; hundreds of people packed the venue.
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“The news that Amazon picked Queens as one of its coveted second headquarters in exchange for nearly $3 billion in tax subsidies broke the day before the 2018 midterm elections, and negative reactions from a newly energized left wing grew quickly in New York City.”
She proudly saved NY State $24 billion in tax revenue and got rid of 25,000 underpaid slave labor jobs.
She then went on to enumerate how she could more wisely spend the $3 billion ...
Even an airhead might be smarter ...
Yep - ironic that socialism, which requires capitalism in order to pretend to ‘work” also does its best to stifle capitalism...
Before Disney announced their Florida park, they had various corporations buying up land near the new project. So after the Park’s new location was announced, they already owned the adjoining properties, which they could then sell to hotels and restaurants at a handsome profit.
That should be Bezos’ next move. It might pay for his divorce.
Truly amazing....
In 1985, all nine justices on the Supreme Court agreed. Long Island, that mass of land completely surrounded by water, is not an island. It's a peninsula.
Since I was born in Queens and lived on Long Island for about my first ten years, I would appreciate you not lecturing me on its geographic locations.
Long Island City is part of Queens. It has different representatives, council members than any part of Long Island. If you are living on Long Island, you are NOT living in the city of New York. If you are living in Long Island City, you are.
Did the Supreme Court force the state of New York to change the name of Long Island to Long Peninsula? Apparently not.
When your family moved from Queens to "Long Island," did they have to cross a bridge to get there? If Queens isn't on the land mass known as Long Island, then what is the name of the land mass where it is located?
From Wikipedia:
Long Island is a densely populated island off the East Coast of the United States, beginning at New York Harbor approximately 0.35 miles (0.56 km) from Manhattan Island and extending eastward into the Atlantic Ocean. The island comprises four counties in the U.S. state of New York. Kings and Queens Counties (the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, respectively) and Nassau County share the western third of the island, while Suffolk County occupies the eastern two-thirds. More than half of New York City's residents now live on Long Island, in Brooklyn and Queens. However, many people in the New York metropolitan area (including those in Brooklyn and Queens) colloquially use the term Long Island (or the Island) to refer exclusively to Nassau and Suffolk Counties, which are mainly suburban in character, conversely employing the term the City to mean Manhattan alone.
You can look up the definition of "colloquially," while you're at it.
If you're going to tell me that "Queens" is a land mass, then you're obviously either a lawyer, an AOC staffer, or you're in the entertainment business. Nobody else would be so fixed in their own reality.
You are stupidly talking about geographic locations and I am talking about the reality of what Long Island City is. This is like saying Hunterdon County, NJ is in Pennsylvania because it sits next to Bucks County, PA. Or visa versa. Until Long Island City votes to secede from New York City and become a part of Nassau County, it is, in fact, in NYC. Sheesh. This isn’t brain surgery.
You are stupidly talking about geographic locations and I am talking about the reality of what Long Island City is.
Go back and read what I posted in #25, you moron. THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I SAID. I explained the distinction between what Long Island City is and where it is ... which is apparently too complicated for you to understand.
This is like saying Hunterdon County, NJ is in Pennsylvania because it sits next to Bucks County, PA.
No -- it is like saying that Hunterdon County (NJ) and Bucks County (PA) are both in the Delaware Valley ... and then having a jackass from New York tell me: "I've lived in Delaware County (NY) all my life. Don't lecture me about what the 'Delaware Valley' is."
I’m sick of arguing with you. Your posts to me make no sense - I don’t know now whether you are arguing that Long Island City is a part of Long Island or that it is separate from Long Island. This is the kind of stupid stuff that goes on a FR all the time - dumb circular arguments.
Your real aim is to insult New Yorkers. Go ahead, just leave me out of it.
This is the kind of stupid stuff that goes on a FR all the time - dumb circular arguments. Your real aim is to insult New Yorkers. Go ahead, just leave me out of it.
Go back and read through all the posts in this thread. The problem isn't FR. The problem is you. There was no "argument" on this point until you showed up on this thread.
There's no need for me to insult New Yorkers. I'll let your posts on this thread stand on their own.
Notice how AOC is now a raging nativist when it comes to jobs in her district?
Amazon pulled out after a meeting with city and state officials where they were “asked” to join in with all the local liberal causes. In other words, a shakedown.
Of course...both Queens and B’klyn are technically on Long Island, but most people think of LI, with its attendant traffic and such, as the suburbs: Farmingdale, Port Washington, the Gold Coast, etc.
Not one of the five boroughs, which is where LI City’s located.
Sorry I didn’t reply sooner, I’ve been busy.
lol at all of those record breaking apartment or condo deals that were for naught.
Interesting!
Thanks for the background info.
Those selfsame Californians are ruining Oregon...just destroying it.
Putting mom and pops out of biz, for the greater good.
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