A view of the waterfront of Long Island City in the Queens borough of New York, along the East River, on November 7, 2018. - Amazon is planning to split its coveted second headquarters between two US cities rather than pack it into a single urban setting, US media reported on November 5, 2018. The company is close to reaching a deal to place the split second headquarters in two areas: the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens in New York and the Crystal City area of Arlington, Virginia, The New York Times reported, citing anonymous sources. (Photo by Don EMMERT / AFP)
As reports emerged last week that Amazon.com Inc. was close to an agreement to set up a new office hub in the Queens neighbourhood of Long Island City, the prospect of all those jobs, shoppers, and potential tenants or homebuyers drew cheers in the fast-growing neighbourhood 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.”
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