<story><title>NY state tax break is $48k per Amazon HQ job</title><url>http://www.fox5ny.com/news/48k-per-amazon-hq-job</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>metildaa</author><text>Perhaps the citizens should object, I hear one of their congress critters is shitposting on twitter to that end. If the locals don&amp;#x27;t want their lives upended by gentrification, Berlin has shown a good example of how to block uninvited expansion by tech giants: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;world-europe-45971538&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;world-europe-45971538&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mancerayder</author><text>Long Island City was already rezoned, luxury housing built and gentrified.  20k workers in a city of 8.5m isn&amp;#x27;t upending a small, vulnerable community.  And we&amp;#x27;re not the commuter suburbs, an office in Long Island City is not very much different from an office building in Manhattan.&lt;p&gt;Gentrification concerns are thus overblown, and our local pols are known for dramatizations like these for political gain (at least on camera&amp;#x2F;Twitter, less so when it comes to campaign support and backroom lobbying deals).&lt;p&gt;The controversy is in the tax incentives primarily.</text></comment>
<story><title>NY state tax break is $48k per Amazon HQ job</title><url>http://www.fox5ny.com/news/48k-per-amazon-hq-job</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>metildaa</author><text>Perhaps the citizens should object, I hear one of their congress critters is shitposting on twitter to that end. If the locals don&amp;#x27;t want their lives upended by gentrification, Berlin has shown a good example of how to block uninvited expansion by tech giants: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;world-europe-45971538&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;world-europe-45971538&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Krasnol</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not clear yet if the go elsewhere in Berlin. The last location I&amp;#x27;ve read about was the former Stasi Headquarter (seriously) ;)</text></comment>