Amazon Faces New York Wednesday at Second Hearing on Queens HQ2
“The best things Amazon will deliver to Queens won’t come in a box,” says an Amazon flyer that appeared in Queens residential mailboxes this weekend trumpeting its new Long Island City headquarters. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), a Queens…
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native who spearheaded the bid to land Amazon, calls the deal a “lightning rod” for “rhetoric” on both political “extremes” (see 1811190012). Wednesday’s hearing is before the council’s Finance Committee. The council promises to give the public the chance to testify at a future hearing and encourages questions to the live hearings through social media. The theme of the first hearing Dec. 12, "Exposing the Closed-Door Process,” reflected council frustrations. The Queens development is one of the two HQ2s, with the other in Northern Virginia (see 1811130013).