An area Assemblyman says the state would have been better off taking the $3 billion Amazon incentive package and distributing it upstate instead. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio took questions at a state budget hearing earlier this week about the online retail giant’s new headquarters in Queens. North Rockland assemblyman Colin Schmitt says Queens is already doing just fine without Amazon…
Many in Queens have rallied against Amazon moving into the neighborhood. The governor has defended the deal.