politician says. the idea that will receive hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks at a time when our subway is crumbling and our communities need more investment, not less, concerning to residents here. >> first, let me say what a cinderella story this is, just a classic rags to riches, these ne'er-do-wells. >> new york down on its luck. >> what a rescue. i think it came down to talent and infrastructure. long island city, you're right across the water from manhattan. i don't know that you could say that about some of these other cities that maybe needed it more. >> fine, jeff bezos could have known that with one trip. he didn't need to have 22 cities involved in this, competing, not to mention, dom chu, the amount of free data, data is the most valuable thing to amazon. every one of those cities pulled together an enormous amount of information about demographics