"DELIVERING EVERYTHING under the sun and 25,000 new jobs", bragged a glossy flyer from Amazon about its plans to build a second headquarters in Queens. The mailer, posted to many New Yorkers last month, urged recipients to ring their state lawmakers to tell them to support the project. The giant retailer is facing opposition from a few vocal politicians, so much so that the Washington Post, which is owned by Jeff Bezos, Amazon's founder, recently reported that the company is having second thoughts about building in the Big Apple.
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