Long Island City was already rezoned, luxury housing built and gentrified. 20k workers in a city of 8.5m isn't upending a small, vulnerable community. And we'

Long Island City was already rezoned, luxury housing built and gentrified. 20k workers in a city of 8.5m isn't upending a small, vulnerable community. And we're not the commuter suburbs, an office in Long Island City is not very much different from an office building in Manhattan. Gentrification concerns are thus overblown, and our local pols are known for dramatizations like these for political gain (at least on camera/Twitter, less so when it comes to campaign support and backroom lobbying deals). The controversy is in the tax incentives primarily.