‘A Great Economic Boom’: Long Island City Prepares for an Amazon Arrival
- Some in Queens community worry company ‘eating the world up’
- NYC government dedicated $180 million to boost infrastructure
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As reports emerged this week that Amazon.com Inc. was close to an agreement to set up a new office hub in the Queens neighborhood of Long Island City, the prospect of all those jobs, shoppers, and potential tenants or homebuyers drew cheers in the fast-growing neighborhood across the East River from Manhattan.
“We’ve got a lot of buildings coming here, but no one’s actually working here,” said Patrick Donagher, who runs Alewife Brewing Company and a local taproom. “There’s no real jobs around here. So something like that coming here, it’d be a great economic boom.”