Amazon's New HQ2 Makes Allies of Quarrelsome Cuomo, de Blasio
- Past feuds set aside as they face broad Democratic opposition
- In liberal N.Y., taxpayer funds for Bezos ignite activist ire
The Long Island City neighborhood in the Queens borough of New York.
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It took Amazon.com Inc.’s announced New York expansion to make buddies out of Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio.
The state’s two most powerful politicians have fought for six years over everything from mass transit to how to combat the Ebola virus. Now they’ve got each other’s back like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, rhetorical guns ablaze against an array of fellow Democrats who want to kill the deal the pair has worked for months to consummate.