The Amazon-slayers are only getting started

The same day as the Amazon news, JP Morgan Chase, yielding to community concerns, revised its proposal for a new headquarters tower at 270 Park Avenue to include 10,000 square feet of outdoor public space, compared to 7,000 square feet indoors in its earlier plan.

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But the Amazon deal’s foes weren’t interested in compromise. They wanted to kill it — period. Having gotten their way, they’ll surely set their sights on more targets. JP Morgan, which still needs City Council approval for 270 Park Ave., had better be on guard.

Air-rights transfers must be allowed to permit worthy projects to rise in Midtown. More rezonings are needed in every borough to encourage affordable-housing construction. Waterfront projects must go forward to create new public parks.

All are “exploitative” in the eyes of the Ocasio-Cortez crowd. Their defeat of Amazon will encourage less radical pols to hop on the train.

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