I understand their mindset and circumstances, I live here. It's the same mindset that you see everywhere in the world and I have lived a lot of different places. People don't' like things to change and sometimes they have the political power to ensure that doesn't happen and it turns into this or NIBYISM or neighborhood battles.

It's really that simple. You don't need to turn them into victims or anything like that to explain it.

There is nothing new about the rate of change with regards to Amazon. Had it been another company you wouldn't even have heard about it and it would have been installed. It's purely political opportunism.

All that is left is that these politicians cost new york 25K jobs. That's it.