Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus

Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by BurningFrog on Thursday February 14, 2019 @10:07PM (#19168159)

One factor is that NY pays 5-10 times more than comparable cities to build its mass transit: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...

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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by asdfasgasdgasdg on Thursday February 14, 2019 @11:41PM (#19168494)

All the same, having Amazon come in with a $3B break doesn't do much to move the ball forward.

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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by seanp2k2 on Friday February 15, 2019 @12:12AM (#19168596)

and in return for all that money, they receive the sewage waterfall: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/05/penn-stations-latest-...

Honestly, why is this so hard when so much of the rest of the developed world manages to do it so well?

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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by Blackthorn on Friday February 15, 2019 @01:59AM (#19169003)

The fact that NYC's transit runs 24/7 makes things really hard to fix, upgrade, change, etc.

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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by rhizome on Friday February 15, 2019 @05:17PM (#19175239)

Yeah, I heard raw sewage flows through Penn Station so often that people aren't even surprised anymore. Not rare at all.

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