> NYC won HQ2 originally in spite of not giving nearly as much as other jurisdictions were willing to. Because the entire "competition" was a sham. Amazon was

> NYC won HQ2 originally in spite of not giving nearly as much as other jurisdictions were willing to. Because the entire "competition" was a sham. Amazon was never going to park the future of the company into a place lacking talent. > The proposal was most popular among Black and Hispanic Queens residents and least popular among White Manhattan residents That's a good point, but the counter is that the Black and Hispanic residents are the ones who would end up pushed out by Amazon's white and asian workers.