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The article misses the point that a big part of Amazon's HQ2 was building new offices in an industrial area of LIC and not using existing real estate Manhattan.

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True, but one could argue that several east river neighborhoods are just extensions of the Manhattan density and culture, with the perk of having an actual view of Manhattan.

I get that some people want their own borough's identity, but LIC doesn't really represent that.

No borough identity is truly intact. Brooklyn of today bears little to no resemblance of what it used to. Similar gentrification is happening in queens and to a lesser extent the Bronx. Staten Island? yeah it's identity has the best chance of staying intact

New York City is comprised of the five boroughs, not just Manhattan.

And? All of the companies listed in the article are expanding in Manhattan, including Amazon.

"Many of these companies are willing to spend big dollars renting high-end Manhattan real estate, rather than the older office stock in Queens that Amazon was prepared to lease."

LIC is already gentrifying extremely rapidly. There are high-rise apartment blocks sprouting like weeds, it’s not going to be industrial much longer.

If anything it’s a poor place to put jobs, because unless you live in Queens itself the transport links are extremely poor.

Manhattan can build higher to meet office space demand.

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