Amazon Pull-out in Queens Devastates Real Estate Brokers

40,000 jobs...

Let the finger-pointing begin.

Amazon.com Inc.'s decision to drop its expansion plans in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens plunged local real estate agents into despair -- just months after the euphoria that followed the company's announcement that it would open offices there and bring thousands of jobs, bloomberg.com reported today.

But not just despair.  Also anger, the news service wrote.

For more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-14/long-island-city-brokers-despair-over-amazon-s-abrupt-reversal?utm_campaign=news&utm_medium=bd&utm_source=applenews

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