Governor Cuomo Continues Efforts for Amazon HQ2

Long Island City skyline/ Photo credit: Long Island City Partnership

NEW YORK CITY—Governor Andrew Cuomo has had private conversations with Amazon executives including Jeff Bezos but if the e-commerce behemoth is reevaluating its decision of a Long Island City, Queens HQ2, it’s keeping a poker face. On Friday, the governor told WNYC radio host Brian Lehrer “They have given no indication that they would reconsider.” An Amazon spokesperson tells GlobeSt.com that the company is declining to comment.

Earlier in the morning approximately 80 politicians, business executives, academic administrators, union leaders and representatives of non-profits wrote an open letter to Jeff Bezos published in The New York Times. Stating New Yorkers wanted the 25,000 permanent jobs, 11,000 construction and union maintenance jobs, and $28 billion in tax revenue, expected with the new campus, the letter urged him to bring the HQ2 to New York City.