Queens is on Long Island, but I forgot that it was in NYC proper. That’s even worse. So Amazon thought it would be a great idea to have its employees pay city income taxes. Bezos ought to have his head examined.
Clarification: I forgot Amazon was locating to NYC proper. I’ve been to Queens and of course know it is in NYC.
>> Queens is on Long Island, but I forgot that it was in NYC proper. <<
It’s only been since 1898. Most people from Brooklyn forget that Brooklyn is part of NYC now. What’s funny is the disownership: to Long Islanders (Suffolk and Nassau), Queens and Brooklyn aren’t REALLY Long Island. (That was the problem with the Islanders; they were only half on Long Island!) To upstate, Long Island isn’t part of New York. (And if you ask a group of people where they’re from, and one is from Long Island, don’t be surprised to hear, “Illinois. Missouri. North Carolina. Vermont. Long Island.”) Meanwhile, to Long Islanders, “upstate” starts at the Bronx border. But to people from Buffalo, it starts somewhere near Syracuse.
Most of the work in those departments ended up being done out of other offices outside the region.
Nobody in the metro area ever refers to queens being on long island. Nassau and Suffolk counties comprise LI.
Queens is on Long Island, but I forgot that it was in NYC proper. That’s even worse. So Amazon thought it would be a great idea to have its employees pay city income taxes. Bezos ought to have his head examined.”
Bezos likes to be in socialist areas. He started to the south of Seattle and could have moved south to Tacoma, a more business-friendly city, but he moved north to Seattle to more easily attract employees from all over the world to clog up the traffic.