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Former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson talks about Amazon and censoring Big Tech.
The Long Island City area where Amazon would have the new headquarters.
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In Long Island City, it’s the scar that doesn’t heal.
Two years after Amazon withdrew from a proposal to build a large headquarters along the Queens boardwalk, it is an empty horror, and for many residents, the wasted economic opportunity is even more painful amid the coronavirus pandemic.
“The remains are empty. It’s terrible,” said Donna Driver, owner of the Matted LIC art gallery and gift shop. “We are in the midst of a pandemic. People say, “If only we had Amazon. “We have nothing. “
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The world’s largest online store canceled its 25,000-job campus assignment after being caught up in fierce opposition from local centers, adding Democratic Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Mike Gianaris.
Nearly two years later, the big one remains a heartbreaking reminder of the wasted outlook, while COVID-19 has devastated the city’s economy, adding the LIC-Western Queens domain that would have benefited from the influx of potential consumers into the domain.
The bubbly traders and LIC citizens who are suffering from the pandemic told the Post that Amazon’s loss is even more disturbing on the net now.
“It’s crazy what’s going on. The city has no solutions. We have a mayor who does nothing,” said Eric Benaim, ceo of Modern Spaces Realty, who lives in the community and whose workplace is close to the fallow ground.
“I see AOC sell ‘tax T-shirts’ for $58 while corporations leave New York. Who will pay $58 for a T-shirt when you’re unemployed?Benaim said.
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An election assignment called “Your LIC” that included residential and advertising towers on the site was also recently demolished amid opposition that is not in my court and lack of part of the town hall. The plan said it would create 26,000 jobs, open spaces and cultural facilities.
The Your LIC consortium included manufacturer Plaxall, the largest landowner on the shoreline with New York City.
That’s not the case.
“Their plans weren’t going to provide enough advantages for the network and we’re not going to let personal developers forget their obligations to New Yorkers,” said Mitchell Schwartz, spokesman for Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Driver directed his fury opposite the Poles for leaving the neighborhood.
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“AOC, Giannaris, Van Bramer [Jimmy City Councilman] – wake up!”She’s the one. ” People are leaving. Business is closing. “
Gianna Cerbone, owner of the Manducatis Rustica restaurant, whose circle of relatives is deeply rooted in the LIC, said democrat Socialists and “delusional” anti-gentrifiers had taken over Western Queens, not for the better.
“I’m angry at stupidity. Everyone is afraid of AOC, who has no idea what it does. Opposing Amazon has benefited other communities. Imagine if AOC is doing something positive with its big mouth,” Cerbone said.
She said Senator Gianaris, whom she has known for years, is the ultimate unexpected betrayal.
“I believed in Gianaris. Mike believed in the net until he got so into AOC’s ass that she couldn’t get him out,” the salty restauratey said.
Bishop Mitchell Taylor, pastor of the International Church of the Center of Hope, near the houses of Queensbridge, said the Amazon debacle followed by the pandemic is a double whaling for the poorest citizens of the LIC.
“It’s like we lived in the 1970s. Things are worse for the deficient now,” Reverend Taylor said.
“Amazon’s assignment has provided a ray of hope for many people. We didn’t need a document. The largest social housing allowance in the country sought the opportunity to do business with the country’s largest retailer,” he said.
The head of the community business organization said it was time to expand the waterfront site.
“As you leave COVID-19, it will be more vital than ever to activate this domain to help the surrounding community. Because of its size, it can create vital new opportunities for jobs, housing, culture and open spaces, and attach the entire West Queens coastline, bringing all of our neighbors closer together as a community,” said Elizabeth Lusskin, president of Long Partnership Island City.
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The biggest complaint about Amazon’s allocation among critics is that it arose secretly with Gov. Andrew Cuomo and De Blasio, who filed $3 billion in tax exemptions and other subsidies to the world’s richest company while claiming that the campus would have discounted other people. neighborhood.
Gianaris, most state Senate lawmakers who used their force in Albany to thwart the Amazonian agreement in their district, and Ocasio-Cortez, who according to New Yorkers had mocked Cuomo, subsidized his opposition.
Gianaris said it was justified, referring to Amazon’s lease of the area at Hudson Yards and the acquisition of the Lord Building.
“In the more than two years, Amazon has already added and announced more administrative work in New York than those provided for in the HQ2 plan, all without a large public subsidy,” the senator said.
He also said there were “several smart proposals” under discussion for the waterfront site that the city considers, adding that the Your LIC plan put on the shelves.
AOC spokeswoman Lauren Hitt said: “Our rivals in the general election and number one have largely campaigned on this factor in the midst of the pandemic, and either has lost decisively.
Amazon’s assignment “would have given [citizens] the taxes that cost one of the richest men in the world so much, in exchange for a campus that promised to rent to local citizens or hire local businesses,” the spokesman said.
The congresswoman also claimed that home prices had risen in the Washington area, where Amazon installed a new campus and criticized the recording of the company’s paintings and the protection of the pandemic.
The aborted Amazon remains a division, even among traders in the LIC district, but not everyone agreed with the project.
Shawn Dixon, Otis Hairdresser’s
“We may have simply had the double blow of COVID and the hypothesis on the market,” Dixon said.
The hairdresser also stated that infrastructure innovations had not kept up with the progression in PFRs and stated that the challenge was not well addressed in Amazon’s plan.
Dixon had his own idea: “Why doesn’t Cuomo’s government offer traders a tax exemption to spend the winter?”
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