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          1. Without stating my personal opinion one way or another: let me tell you that as a local who lived in walking distance of where the HQ would have been, the idea that locals generally supported Amazon was entirely untrue. jrichlive/1099468701839945729
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          I spend a lot of time walking, eating and drinking in LIC, Hunters Point, and Sunnyside and I heard a lot of people talking about Amazon and it was never positive. More so, I know for a fact people did indeed take off work to protest.
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        Once again, not stating my personal preference here re:Amazon in NYC, but I think Amazon made a tactically sound decision. Every day at a LIC HQ2 would have been a heavily covered PR disaster of angry protesters, displaced residents, and pro union organizers. They were ready.
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      I mean no insult to the press in Seattle or SF. But it's nothing like the attention Amazon would have gotten in that situation in NYC. To many national news orgs that are local and can have a lazy day covering protesters.
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    That national coverage would have been compounded by multiple reasonably healthy local news orgs, for whom reporting on Amazon would have been very profitable. The LIC location would have been under a level of scrutiny unknown by any tech company.
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      Even if I was the biggest Amazon fan in the world, it would take serious blinders not to see that moving into NYC in the current environment would have been difficult, likely more so than it was worth.
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        Also LIC is literally filled with union HQs. At least a dozen. Maybe more. You could have gotten a good percentage of the entire country's labor leadership to any LIC location any day in an instant, heck even on their daily lunch break.
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          I will state my opinion on one thing though: Albany knows shit about NYC. There's an indication things might be getting better soon, but it's generally a corrupt cesspool of politicos, many of whom are elected on the basis of disliking NYC. Their perspective on this is worthless.
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            Cuomo's administration is fully formed on the idea that he can win the presidency by publicly claiming it's a good example of 'center of country' politics to screw over NYC. He doesn't care about the city or the state, just about burnishing his record for a national run.
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              Literally the only thing about this mess that matters to him was the hope he could go on a debate stage and talk about all the jobs he "created".
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