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Long Island itself is going to be affected even more. LI is already expensive, sure, but how many of those tens of thousands of employees will want to buy house
by sotojuan 8y ago
Long Island itself is going to be affected even more. LI is already expensive, sure, but how many of those tens of thousands of employees will want to buy houses there they can easily commute from?
A day of happiness for those owning property along the 7 train and LIRR.
- bradleyjg 8y agoLong Island has almost 3 million people living on it. I think some posters here don’t recognize the sheer scale of the NYC metro area. If they pick LIC for half a headquarters NYC isn’t going to be a company town. They probably won’t even be the largest private employer.
- awad 8y agoThey wouldn't crack the top 15 even if they put all 50k new jobs instead of splitting it. NYC itself is big as is, and the NY Metro area is unparalleled.
- CydeWeys 8y agoLong Island has way more people living on it than that. Queens and Brooklyn alone are 5M. Now add in all the other counties in NY State and it's substantial. You also seem to be confusing Long Island with LIC, which is the downtown neighborhood of Queens.
- bradleyjg 8y agoI was responding to the parent poster who claimed that Long Island prices would be strongly impacted. And when people say Long Island, 99.9% of the time they mean Nassau and Suffolk County, not the physical island.
- nemo44x 8y agoThe 7 train stops at Grand Central so going North is essentially the same.