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November 14, 2018

Amazon's new HQs share many qualities but they also have very different vibes

  • Crystal City is a thicket of 1980s-era office towers that lost thousands of federal jobs. Long Island City is an old manufacturing area already being reinvented as a hub for 21st-century industry.
  • By JENNIFER PELTZ and MATTHEW BARAKAT
    Associated Press

    NEW YORK — The two communities that learned Tuesday they are about to become homes to a pair of big, new East Coast bases for Amazon are both riverfront stretches of major metropolitan areas with ample transportation and space for workers.

    But there are plenty of differences between New York's Long Island City and Crystal City in northern Virginia.


     
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