Amazon couldn’t cut it in New York City. The company announced Thursday that it no longer plans to open a 25,000-worker office in Long Island City, Queens, one of the two winners of its HQ2 search, a continental bake-off in which cities offered generous incentives for the e-commerce titan to open a major outpost there. Even in economically bustling New York, the prospect of HQ2 was so enticing to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio that they put aside their mutual antipathy to offer Amazon $3 billion in subsidies. Many New Yorkers, however, didn’t jump on the welcome wagon—and their ultimately successful opposition suggests the kind of pushback tech companies might fear elsewhere.
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