Less than a year after abandoning HQ2 in New York City, Amazon says it's opening a new 1,500-employee office in NYC (AMZN)

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• Amazon is opening a new office in New York City that employs over 1,500 people, the company said on Friday.
• The announcement comes less than a year after Amazon abandoned its plan to open its second headquarters in the city.
• The new office in New York isn't getting any special tax benefits, the company said.

Amazon announced plans to open a big, new office in New York City on Friday, instantly rekindling the heated arguments that engulfed its failed efforts to build a second headquarters in the city nearly a year ago. 

Amazon has signed a lease for a new 335,000-square-foot office in New York City, the company told Business Insider on Friday, confirming an earlier report in the Wall Street Journal.  Scheduled to open in 2021, the new office will be located in the Hudson Yards area and will employ over 1,500 people, the company said.

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