While I think AOC could have handled the Amazon plan to establish a presence in Queens better she did raise important issues: 1) What is the impact on housing affordability for the existing population of the district when you add 25K employees mostly from outside the district; Cuomo's decision to offer $3 billion in tax subsidies to the company was made without much of a debate with the legislature or other constituencies. What is not generally known is that 10 months after the company's decision to cancel its Queens plan it announced that it is opening new corporate offices in Hudson Yards ( no tax subsidies ).
While I think AOC could have handled the Amazon plan to establish a presence in Queens better she did raise important issues: 1) What is the impact on housing affordability for the existing population of the district when you add 25K employees mostly from outside the district; Cuomo's decision to offer $3 billion in tax subsidies to the company was made without much of a debate with the legislature or other constituencies. What is not generally known is that 10 months after the company's decision to cancel its Queens plan it announced that it is opening new corporate offices in Hudson Yards ( no tax subsidies ).