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Greg David, director of the business and economics reporting program at The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY and author of Modern New York: The Life and Economics of a City, talks about reports that Amazon plans to bring half of its new headquarters to Long Island City. Emma Fitzsimmons, transit reporter for The New York Times, considers how it could impact New York's already struggling transit.