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CUOMO: ‘Fundamentals

That Attracted

Amazon Here Remain’

Editor’s Note: Governor Cuomo issued this statement after Amazon announced Thursday, Feb. 14, it is backing out of the 27,000-job HQ2 planned for Long Island City.

Amazon chose to come to New York because we are the capital of the world and the best place to do business.
We competed in and won the most hotly contested national economic development competition in the United States, resulting in at least 25,000-40,000 good-paying jobs for our state and nearly $30
billion dollars in new revenue to fund transit improvements, new housing, schools and countless other quality of life improvements.

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