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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by geofft on Thursday February 14, 2019 @09:21PM (#19167975)
If skyscraper-studded Manhattan is hostile to businesses, I am really curious what a city friendly to businesses looks like....
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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by webXL on Friday February 15, 2019 @04:43PM (#19175000)
It's possible the studding of skyscrapers occurred before the hostility, right?
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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by geofft on Friday February 15, 2019 @04:46PM (#19175018)
Sure, but Manhattan is not a ghost town either. The usual crop of employers is present, there's certainly no surfeit of supply on the commercial real estate market, etc. There are cities with mostly-empty skyscrapers and overly ambitious commercial centers. NYC isn't one of them.
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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by rhizome on Friday February 15, 2019 @05:16PM (#19175226)
For the past 24 hours I've been a bit befuddled, like "Amazon would have brought sorely-needed employment to [checks notes] New York City."
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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by samstave on Friday February 15, 2019 @12:36AM (#19168691)
Graftopolis?
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