> I doubt that Amazon are the only ones with any likelihood of bringing new jobs to New York in the near future.

Not anymore. Why would a company want the hassle? Go to New York and have an idiot bartender trash our goodwill or go somewhere else where they roll out the red carpet for us.

That jobs would come with or without Amazon (more likely with Amazon, since Amazon HQ would be a huge business attractor for smaller companies) - nobody would say "well, we're going to open office in NYC but since Amazon is already there we won't". Other companies would open anyway, yes. But Amazon won't. It's not a fixed pie, it adds up. And NYC just took a huge piece of this pie and threw it into the river. To spite Bezos. Hope it's worth $24B to them.