> ... the immediate area can contain this, with minimal spillover to Manhattan and Brooklyn.
People in high paying jobs are often willing to make huge sacrifices in commute-time to land a desirable job while keeping the housing situation that suits them. There are folks with absolutely insane commutes in the NYC area, will Amazon employees will be any different?
I don't know about this but for years now (around ten years now) I've heard about developers trying to transform locations that used to be all factories into residential neighborhoods. Slowly but surely this has been happening all along Brooklyn's riverside, which used to be dominated by factories.
[1] https://www.rentcafe.com/blog/rental-market/brooklyn-skyline...
[2] https://ny.curbed.com/2018/8/9/17667488/new-york-domino-park...
[3]https://www.wnyc.org/story/after-years-delays-sunset-park-re...
The Olympic Village was to be on Hunter's Point.
In fact, about those luxury condos and housing projects… they're _very_ new, popping up within the past two years and more coming all the time. I’ve been wondering for years what kind of people make the sort of money to afford these places and would also _want_ to live in that area… now I wonder if this decision wasn't made long ago, and word was carefully leaked to various developers to get the housing ready.
It’s not enough to store 25,000 workers, but it’s a lot. Maybe I’m naive but I feel like the immediate area can contain this, with minimal spillover to Manhattan and Brooklyn. (Like, if the workers want to. The area is definitely not the kind of hipster chic or glamour chic or any chic that people come to New York for.)