When Amazon abruptly announced Feb. 14 that it was pulling up stakes and abandoning plans to open a new headquarters in Long Island City, it was almost comical watching the city’s newspapers portray it as a grand embarrassment to New York while seeking to pin the blame on two elected officials whose powers were relatively limited: State Sen. Michael Gianaris and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Mr. Gianaris was fingered by a New York Post headline as “the man who delivered the death blow to the Amazon deal.” The paper quoted an anonymous insider as saying that Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins nominating him to the off-the-radar Public Authorities Control Board “put the deal over the cliff.”
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