Comment by atsmyles

The subsidy was not to bring Amazon to Manhattan, it was to bring Amazon to Queens. The only reasonable places to commute to it is if you lived in NYC or Long Island, so most of the subsidy would have been paid back via taxes by the people working there. This doesn't include the construction jobs, restaurant and bar businesses, and real estate taxes that would be collected in the long term after the subsidy expired. I do agree that AOC represented NJ, Connecticut, and Amazon's long term interests very well. Her district, not so much.