NYC neighborhood reacts to Amazon moving in
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1. Pan from Manhattan to Long Island City
2. Exterior of Rockaway Brewing Company in Long Island City
3. Various of Ethan Long, Co-Founder of Rockaway Brewing Company
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ethan Long, Co-Founder of Rockaway Brewing Company:
I think there's potential upsides. Obviously this neighbourhood's changed drastically over the last 20 years so it's not like this has happened overnight with just Amazon saying today where we're coming so I think it's. It's interesting, I think there is potential for it to be a good thing depending on how we structure and plan our upgrades to our infrastructure and how we deal with all the buildings that are here. I mean this is a great community, a great spot that had artists, had a lot of small businesses. If they can integrate together I think it's an upside to kind of benefit both.
5. Various of Citibank building, where Amazon will be based until they build a new waterfront campus
6. Subway entrance
7. Subway train with new development in the background
8. Various of new buildings, real estate office
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Vanessa Connelly, Director of Sales, Halstead Property Development Marketing:
Long Island City as an investment I think has been strong to begin with. This news is huge. I mean just the traffic that we've had over the past week and with people coming in, there's a lot of people that are are excited about this neighbourhood and more excited about this neighbourhood because they understand that, you know, seeing the Silicon Valleys of the day is all of these things that have happened, that their investment could be, you know, there's just no end.
10. Various of Queensbridge public housing complex
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Giselle Roman, Local resident:
I don't think so. I don't think it may well be that big of a change. If anything it will be... gave us opportunities to probably get jobs at a local Amazon.
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Silvia Martinez, Local resident:
I think it will be a good effect, more jobs. I that is amazing, more jobs. I think it's cool. I'll put in an application for myself.
13. New high rises
14. Area where Amazon headquarters will be built
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Amazon has set its sights on two of the nation's largest and most powerful metro areas, announcing Tuesday it had chosen a buzzy New York neighbourhood and a suburb of Washington for its new East Coast headquarters.
The online shopping giant ended its 14-month-long competition for second headquarters by selecting Long Island City, Queens, and Arlington, Virginia , as the joint winners.
Both are waterfront communities away from overcrowded business districts, giving Amazon space to grow.
In Long Island City, many business owners are cautiously optimistic.
Ethan Long, Co-Founder of Rockaway Brewing Company, had been in the neighbourhood since 2015 and he says that as long as infrastructure investment follows Amazon to the area, it could be good for everyone.
Amazon could have picked a city looking to be revitalised, like Newark, New Jersey.
Instead, it decided to be in two of the nation's centres of power.
The reason Amazon gave: they are best suited to attract the high-skilled workers the company wants. The two sites will each get 25,000 jobs that Amazon said will pay an average of 150,000 US dollars a year.
The hope is that Amazon will attract other companies and ultimately boost the local economies.
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NYC neighborhood reacts to Amazon moving in
(14 Nov 2018) Amazon has set its sights on two of the nation's largest and most powerful metro areas, announcing Tuesday it had chosen a buzzy New York neighborhood and a suburb of Washington for its new East Coast headquarters.
The online shopping giant ended its 14-month-long competition for second headquarters by selecting Long Island City, Queens, and Arlington, Virginia , as the joint winners.
Both are waterfront communities away from overcrowded business districts, giving Amazon space to grow.
In Long Island City, many business owners are cautiously optimistic.
Ethan Long, Co-Founder of Rockaway Brewing Company, had been in the neighborhood since 2015 and he says that as long as infrastructure investment follows Amazon to the area, it could be good for everyone.
Amazon could have picked a city looking to be revitalized, like Newark, New Jersey.
Instead, it decided to be in two of the nation's centers of power. The reason Amazon gave: they are best suited to attract the high-skilled workers the company wants. The two sites will each get 25,000 jobs that Amazon said will pay an average of $150,000 a year.
The company will receive more than $2 billion in tax credits and other incentives. New York is forking over more than $1.5 billion, while Virginia and Arlington are offering about a third of that — $573 million.
The hope is that Amazon will attract other companies and ultimately boost the local economies.
Amazon's New York headquarters is going to be built just down the road from the nation's largest housing project Queensbridge.
Resident's of Queensbridge were well aware that they were getting a new neighbor and many seemed fine with the idea as long as Amazon brings jobs for people who live in the community.
I think it will be a good effect, more jobs. I that is amazing, more jobs. I think it's cool. I'll put in an application for myself, said Silvia Martinez, who works in the Queensbridge complex.
Amazon said it will refer to the new locations as headquarters, even though with 25,000 jobs each, they would have fewer workers than its Seattle hometown , which houses more than 45,000 employees.
Seattle will remain one of Amazon's three headquarters, and the company said that senior executives will also be based in the two new locations. It plans to hold company-wide events at the new locations, including shareholder meetings.
There were early signs that Amazon had its sights set on New York and northern Virginia. Among its 20 finalists, the company had selected two locations in the New York metro area and three in the D.C. area.
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(14 Feb 2019) Amazon abruptly dropped plans Thursday for a big, new headquarters in New York that would have brought 25,000 jobs to the city – reversing course after politicians and activists objected to the nearly $3 billion in tax breaks promised to what is already one of the world's richest and most powerful companies.
The company announced in November that it had chosen the Long Island City section of Queens for one of two new headquarters, with the other in Arlington, Virginia. Both would get 25,000 jobs. A third site in Nashville, Tennessee, would get 5,000. The company had planned to spend $2.5 billion building the New York office. Part of the reason they chose the area is because of its large pool of tech talent.
Ethan Long, owner of the neighborhood's Rockaway Brewing Company, said he always felt like the deal might fall through.
Long said he didn't know if the deal would have ended up being good or bad for the neighborhood, but said he hopes the city follows through on the infrastructure upgrades the area was promised as a result of the Amazon deal.
I think the community was in a good position regardless, said Long. I think we'll be fine without them.
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A timeline of United States inventions (1890–1945) encompasses the ingenuity and innovative advancements of the United States within a historical context, dating from the Progressive Era to the end of World War II, which have been achieved by inventors who are either native-born or naturalized citizens of the United States. Copyright protection secures a person's right to his or her first-to-invent claim of the original invention in question, highlighted in Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution which gives the following enumerated power to the United States Congress:
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