to new york's decrepit subway, crumbling infrastructure and housing challenges, but amazon chose to come to new york and promised to deliver, though maybe not overnight, 25,000 jobs with them. and those jobs all those people would further generate. new york offered 3 billion in incentives and some real estate we'll refer to as prime, and then the opposition went to work, and today they won. amazon has pulled out, and now a festival of second-guessing will make new york politics even more toxic. and that's hard to do. here's how nbc news correspondent tom costello reported the story tonight. >> reporter: tonight, the world's biggest company is saying no thanks to the world's financial capital. amazon had announced it would bring 25,000 jobs to new york's long island city as part of its hq2 initiative, splitting 50,000 jobs with northern virginia. but almost immediately it faced stiff opposition.