Amazon is adding ~2,000 jobs. That's <10% of the number that NYC would have gotten out of HQ2.

I understand the aversion to granting tax breaks to big companies, but IMO the whole debacle just looks like NYC politicians are more interested in maintaining their political bona fides, more interested in vague notions about Amazon's 'fair share' than they are in the long term well being of the local economy.

It’s more than 2000:

> The new tech and corporate jobs add to Amazon's announcement in December that it would hire 1,500 more New York workers

Let’s see how many workers they’ve added in NYC a few years from now. I bet it ends up close to that 25k number anyway.