Most Respondents Say Amazon HQ2 Pullout Bad for New York
Critics of the multibillion-dollar incentive package luring Amazon to build an HQ2 campus in Long Island City, Queens, cheered that New York would be better off after the tech giant scrapped the deal on Valentine’s Day (see 1902140054). But a…
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Siena College poll found that wide swaths of New Yorkers of all stripes disagree. Siena pollsters canvassed 700 registered voters across the state by phone March 10-14, and found a 67-21 majority agreeing Amazon’s pullout was “bad for New York,” the pollster said Monday. Eighty-two percent of Republicans said they thought New York lost out when Amazon withdrew, compared with 65 percent of independents and 63 percent of Democrats. Though many progressive Democrats, including New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, led much of the local opposition that Amazon cited for pulling out, 56 percent of self-identified liberals said New York is worse off with the HQ2 project scrapped. That compared with 76 percent of conservatives and 69 percent of moderates. Meanwhile, the Arlington County, Virginia, Council last weekend OK’d $23 million in incentives for Amazon to build its Virginia HQ2 in Crystal City.