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    Amazon cancels plan to create a New York headquarters

    by James F. Peltz, Los Angeles Times Feb 14, 2019 3 minutes

    Amazon.com Inc. has dropped New York City as one of its new headquarters locations and is not searching for a replacement, it said Thursday, scrapping its plan in response to push back from locals who didn't want the online retail giant to reap government subsidies or cause a rise in housing prices.

    The Seattle-based company had conducted a much-ballyhooed nationwide search for its second headquarters, dubbed HQ2, and in November

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