[asabjorn]

Amazon would generate $30b in tax revenue over the deal length, for which it would be given a $3b break given certain conditions.

That is not a handout, because amazon generated all the money in question.

[viburnum]

Okay fine whatever, every other big employer will be lining up for the same deal or threatening to leave.

[asabjorn]

When Queens has attracted enough campuses like Amazons to become an ecosystem no incentives should be necessary.

The deal has positives and negatives for Amazon due to its location, and lack of an ecosystem. After Amazon moved 25k jobs there there it would have been hard for them to leave.