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New York Times: Amazon Grows in New York, Reviving Debate Over Abandoned Queens Project
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State Senator Michael Gianaris, a Queens Democrat...said in a statement, “Amazon is coming to New York, just as they always planned.”
“Fortunately,” he added, “we dodged a $3 billion bullet by not agreeing to their subsidy shakedown earlier this year.”
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