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Tag: Amazon HQ2

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Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney to Host “State of the District” in Upper East Side (3/10)

by Aaron SimonMarch 5, 2019March 5, 2019

Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney is hosting a “State of the District” presentation on Sunday, March 10, at Hunter College W714 (E. 68th Street and Lexington Avenue) from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 […]

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Amazon Cancels Long Island City HQ2 Plans

by Aaron SimonFebruary 14, 2019February 14, 2019

After Governor “Amazon” Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio offered the trillion-dollar company, Amazon, upwards of $3 billion in tax subsidies to locate part of its HQ2 campus in Long […]

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North Brooklyn Snubbed From Amazon Community Advisory Committee

by Aaron SimonDecember 11, 2018December 11, 2018

Governor Andrew Amazon Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio Bezos announced on Tuesday a community advisory committee “to share information and solicit ongoing community input about Amazon’s planned headquarters project […]

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NYC Historian Mitch Waxman Discusses Amazon HQ2

by Aaron SimonDecember 3, 2018December 3, 2018

Mitch Waxman is a lifelong New Yorker and historian who for the past decade has traversed the area near the Long Island City waterfront at Anabel Basin where Amazon’s HQ2 […]

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Amazon Protest Gains Steam on Cyber Monday

by Aaron SimonNovember 26, 2018November 27, 2018

A protest entitled, Protect Queens #NoAmazonNYC, has received a large response with over 500 people RSVPing and thousands ‘interested’ in the action hosted by the Democratic Socialists of America, the political […]

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Here Comes Amazon HQ2-Inspired Real Estate Prospectors

by Aaron SimonNovember 16, 2018November 16, 2018

  Amazon’s plan to build half of its HQ2 at Anabel Basin in Long Island City,  just a brisk walk from Greenpoint over the Pulaski Bridge, is proving to be […]

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Amazon HQ2 Is Coming to Long Island City

by Aaron SimonNovember 13, 2018November 13, 2018

After over 200 U.S. city governments vetted the world’s richest man, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, to plop his tech goliath’s HQ2 in their territory, Bezos picks Long Island City, Queens and […]

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Amazon Eyes Long Island City For HQ2

by Geoff CobbNovember 6, 2018November 6, 2018

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has been intensely lobbying Amazon to locate its HQ2 in Long Island City. Gov. Cuomo jokingly offered to rename Newtown Creek ‘Amazon Creek’ on the […]



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