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> Just days before, I had counseled a senior Amazon executive... Can pretty much stop there. I think Amazon saw a mayor and governor who thought they traded ta

> Just days before, I had counseled a senior Amazon executive... Can pretty much stop there. I think Amazon saw a mayor and governor who thought they traded tax breaks for a say in how Amazon runs its business. This was a huge loss for the city. LIC will be toxic to big business for years. And now the mayor is passing the blame to the very corporations who would come in and create jobs.

perfmode 8y ago
NYC doesn’t need their jobs.
- lamarpye 8y ago
  Right. The State Government is running a huge surplus: https://www.wsj.com/articles/tax-shortfalls-widen-new-yorks-revenue-gap-11550329288?mod=hp_listb_pos1 https://www.wsj.com/articles/tax-shortfalls-widen-new-yorks-...
bogomipz 8y ago
>"LIC will be toxic to big business for years" You mean like Citibank, JetBlue, Fresh Direct and Steve Madden who all moved to Long Island City years ago and continue to flourish? Or like Ralph Lauren who just signed a lease for 19K square foot of space and Cornel University's building of their Techion campus? Yeah right. I'm amazed on the number of people who appear be not only unfamiliar with Long Island City as a neighborhood but also of NYC and it current economic well-being in technology jobs. And yet these same folks feel compelled to make comments about what a "huge loss" this is.
- pathseeker 8y ago
  Those companies pay garbage.
  - bogomipz 8y ago
    Your comment as is as uniformed as it is absurd. Many of those are fortune 500/publicly traded companies. That not withstanding, the comment was that that the business environment would somehow now toxic in LIC which has exactly zero to do with salary ranges.