On Friday afternoon, as the wind blew off the Anable Basin through the site of Amazon’s prospective campus in Queens, Jimmy Van Bramer took a phone call. The city councilman has been one of the fiercest antagonists of the deal that would reward Amazon’s expansion in New York to a seemingly limitless degree. Corey Johnson, the council speaker, was on the other line. Strong-arming, in fact, has been the Amazon way. The billions of dollars in tax breaks the company will receive has caused enormous outrage among liberals.

Source: New York Times February 13, 2019 09:56 UTC