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Re:It Started With a Jolt: How New York Became a Tech Town by avbanks on Friday February 22, 2019 @01:08PM (#19227536)
Well you might be wrong, the land will now be redeveloped for condos 1,000 total.

" Patchett did toss out a scrap of news about what’s next for Long Island City. He said city land that had been slated for the tech giant’s corporate towers will instead become a mix of homes and businesses. That, after all, had been the original plan before New York decided to drop it and go a-courtin’ for the company. The new-old project will consist of a thousand residential units—two hundred and fifty of which will be affordable. The neighborhood will also gain 100,000 square feet of light manufacturing and industrial space, ground floor retail, a cultural center, a 600-seat middle school, and a one-acre park."

http://gothamist.com/2019/02/22/amazon_blame_game_patchett.p...

Re:It Started With a Jolt: How New York Became a Tech Town by CPLX on Friday February 22, 2019 @01:56PM (#19228011)
> a thousand residential units—two hundred and fifty of which will be affordable. The neighborhood will also gain 100,000 square feet of light manufacturing and industrial space, ground floor retail, a cultural center, a 600-seat middle school, and a one-acre park.

Those things sound like a much better addition to the area than one Amazon.

Re:It Started With a Jolt: How New York Became a Tech Town by untog on Friday February 22, 2019 @01:22PM (#19227685)
Given the state of housing in NYC that sounds like a far more desirable outcome than Amazon taking up all that space.