Amazon may have pulled its HQ2 plans, but it still has New York digs
New York, Amazon loves you but you’re bringing it down.
On Thursday, the Seattle-based e-commerce giant announced that it would withdraw plans to place its second headquarters in Long Island City, after the company faced a wave of protests.
The Amazon hub would have been the company’s most important headquarters outside of its west coast hometown. Opponents, led most notably by U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, objected to the generous tax package and the opaque process that lured Amazon to the city.
