But longtime residents of Long Island City are far less optimistic. "It's pure bullshit. They're never going to hire us for these jobs," Raymond Normandeau, a r

But longtime residents of Long Island City are far less optimistic. "It's pure bullshit. They're never going to hire us for these jobs," Raymond Normandeau, a resident of Queensbridge Houses since 1973, told Gothamist. "Only a country bumpkin like de Blasio or Cuomo would believe this shit." Indeed.