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Amazon Selects New York City and Northern Virginia for New Headquarters

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Re: Amazon Selects New York City and Northern Virginia for New Headquarters

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Post by SippinLean »

rm999 wrote: post #201
SippinLean wrote: post #12

> Long Island City is a mixed-use community where arts and industry intersect It's mostly empty warehouses, housing projects, and luxury condos. There's very little in terms of culture or even basic needs, like grocery stores. > Long Island City has some of the best transit access in New York City, with 8 subway lines, 13 bus lines, commuter rail, a bike-sharing service, and ferries serving the area Realistically it'…

This comment is skewing what LIC is. LIC is a neighborhood in its infancy because it was rezoned from primarily industrial to residential/commercial only a few years ago. But it's basically the perfect neighborhood for the city to grow into. In defense of the neighborhood I lived in for years: > There's very little in terms of culture There are literally 100s of artists who work out of LIC. Many of those "empty wareh…

I'm aware of the zoning history, I'm a former resident as well. Good counterpoints, all. I think "the perfect neighborhood for the city to grow into" is an optimistic and accurate description.

>It's the densest concentration of artists in the outer boroughs

Surely this crown belongs to Bushwick, but LIC is not entirely devoid of arts and culture (Flux Factory being an example of a repurposed warehouse you describe).

Re: Amazon Selects New York City and Northern Virginia for New Headquarters

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Post by hessproject »

SippinLean wrote: post #12

> Long Island City is a mixed-use community where arts and industry intersect It's mostly empty warehouses, housing projects, and luxury condos. There's very little in terms of culture or even basic needs, like grocery stores. > Long Island City has some of the best transit access in New York City, with 8 subway lines, 13 bus lines, commuter rail, a bike-sharing service, and ferries serving the area Realistically it'…

Strongly disagree about culture and basic needs, I have two grocery stores walking distance to me (urban market, food cellar) and several delis/pharmacies, the 7 is closest but the E and M are subway options from Court Square with the N/W from Queensboro, there's a great park (Gantry), plenty of art studios, a few museums (MOMA PS1, Museum of Moving Image a few minutes away), a quick walk/uber to Astoria or Greenpoint for other nightlife or food.

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Post by discodave »

asr wrote: post #211
urda wrote: post #207

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> You cant even discharge it through bankruptcy. And why do you think that is? Once you get an "education", you can't exactly have another company repossess that from you. Not being able to remove your student debt by going through bankruptcy is a positive thing .

I've never seen anyone cite convincing evidence that there was a real problem with students declaring bankruptcy to get out of their loans.[0] On the other hand, having our bankruptcy system not apply to a meaningful portion of U.S. lending does create some incentive problems, like the fact that lenders have no incentive to make sure you'll be able to handle repayment, so you can take out huge student loans and find…

I should be clear that I wasn't trying to argue that the laws around student loan debt are just, or fair. I'm just saying that one of the alleged justifications for the current state of affairs is that the difficulty of discharging student debt leads to lower interest rates.

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Post by lbotos »

magic_beans wrote: post #190
FiveSquared wrote: post #121

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There's a reason that it's called the "L" train.

A quarter of it is underground, and it's by no means the only elevated train in New York, nor even the first.

I think the GP was referencing "taking the L" where the "L" stands for "loss/lose":

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Take%20the%2...

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Post by blablabla007 »

baseballMan wrote: post #4

Knew that they wouldn't pick Toronto - Trump would have blown a gasket

Toronto (and Canada overall) is also in the midst of housing bubble. Both location Amazon picked are cheaper - ponder this for a moment. Source: live in Toronto and looking at moving south due to housing. Not willing to buy a dump for 1 million, Toronto is not THAT good.

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Post by FiveSquared »

lbotos wrote: post #275
magic_beans wrote: post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A quarter of it is underground, and it's by no means the only elevated train in New York, nor even the first.

I think the GP was referencing "taking the L" where the "L" stands for "loss/lose": https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Take%20the%2...

Yes.

Re: Amazon Selects New York City and Northern Virginia for New Headquarters

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Post by dajohnson89 »

bobthepanda wrote: post #178
Ericson2314 wrote: post #132

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Amazon should pay for putting that underground instead.

The BQX shouldn't exist at all. None of the parallel bus lines are anywhere near crowded, and the parallel subway line could easily have the car lengths and train frequency doubled. Even the city's own, goosed up business case looks poor. The conversation has shifted from "let's fund this with only property taxes" to "let's fund this with public money because this will never pay for itself." https://www.crainsnewyork…

>[...] the parallel subway line could easily have the car lengths and train frequency doubled.

What do you mean by car lengths? I thought all nyc subway trains had the same # of cars

Re: Amazon Selects New York City and Northern Virginia for New Headquarters

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Post by sinker »

raiflip wrote: post #270
sinker wrote: post #156

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And yet NYC still has some of the highest rent in the country. For someone making 60k or less it doesn't matter much if the rent is 2k or 3k a month, it's all totally unaffordable anyway and those people are either pushed further out from where they work, or if they're young they split the rent amongst 2-4 people.

Those are Manhattan prices. If you travel more than 10 minutes outside Manhattan the rent drops. This normally means long commutes, but with the new HQ in queens, workers could commute from the cheaper parts of queens.

Maybe six or seven years ago. Any neighborhood close to Manhattan is already dealing with the issue of high rent.
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