APPENDIX NEW YORK METRO AREA AMAZON HQ2 RFP RESPONSE PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL TABLE OF CONTENTS New York Metro Area Appendix 5 Exhibit 1A Exhibit 1B New York City Appendix 25 Exhibit 2 Part 1: Sites Part 2: Incentives Part 3: Workforce and Labor Part 4: Livability Part 5: End Notes Part 6: Letters of Endorsement Long Island Appendix 125 Exhibit 3 Exhibit 4 Exhibit 5 Exhibit 6 Exhibit 7 Lower Hudson Valley Appendix 151 Exhibit 8 Exhibit 9 Exhibit 10 Exhibit 11 Private & Confidential NEW YORK METRO AREA Private & Confidential –New York Metro Area– –5– NEW YORK METRO AREA: EXHIBIT 1 EXHIBIT 1A EXHIBIT 1B New York State’s Computer Science Education Initiatives ACCOMPLISHMENTS TO DATE • In his 2017 State of the State, Governor Cuomo highlighted the importance of computer science education and outlined plans to support the expansion of computer science education through private sector partnerships. • New York State has invested $10 million a year in Early College High School Programs, such as P-TECH, an innovative program that connects high school, college, and connections to employment through college and industry partnerships. Students graduate with an associate’s degree at no cost to their families. There are now 32 P-TECHs across the state. • In 2017, State has committed an additional $6 million to expand PTECH/ECHS programs to include pathways to education and employment in the tech sector, with a preference for programs with a focus on computer science. • In 2017, New York State passed the Excelsior Scholarship. The first-in-the-nation program that makes NYS public universities tuition-free for families making up to $125,000 per year. • In 2014, New York initiated the $2 billion Smart Schools Bond Act program to equip K-12 schools with 21st century technology including wireless connectivity, high-speed internet, and hand-held devices. Every school district in the State received an allocation under this program. • In 2013, New York started the successful Master Teacher program, which provides a $15,000 stipend for four years for highly effective STEM teachers in order to recruit and retain STEM teachers. The most recent round of awards will include a preference for computer science teachers. • In 2014, New York launched the NYS STEM Incentive Program, which provides a full SUNY tuition scholarship to the top 10 percent of students in each NYS high school if they pursue a STEM degree WHAT’S NEXT • Recognizing that in today’s economy, it is essential to equip students with a deeper understanding of the fundamentals of computing, just as we do with English, math, or science, New York State is working towards a robust computer science education initiative that will reach all of New York’s students. State University of New York NEW YORK STATE IS EXPLORING A COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION INITIATIVE THAT INCLUDES: i. –6– High School Graduation Requirement: This first-in-the-nation statewide computer science high school graduation requirement ensures all high school students will take an introductory computer science course. This policy will be phased in over a 10-year period and will tie the credit to rigorous computer science education, not a technology applications or keyboarding course. ii. $5M Teacher Training: NYS will expand access to computer science in all New York State schools by providing roughly $5 million for professional development training of in-service teachers each year for the next seven years. This investment will bring computer science coursework to all elementary, middle, and high school students in New York State over the next seven years; will train roughly 8,447 teachers in 21st century skills; and will make New York’s the largest state investment in computer science education. iii. CS Standards: NYS will introduce new computer science academic standards for Pre-K-12. New computer science standards will create a foundation for curriculum and enable implementation across the state. –New York Metro Area– CAPABILITIES IN SUPPORT OF AMAZON HEADQUARTERS2 Kristina M Johnson, Chancellor and Executive Leadership Team The State University of New York October 10, 2017 –New York Metro Area– –7– Executive Summary 1.0 Education – The Key to a Trained and Ready Workforce 1.1 Just-In-Time Learning The State University of New York (SUNY) is the largest and most comprehensive university system in the United States. Our impact in New York State and across the globe begins with our 64 institutions, including research universities, academic medical centers, liberal arts colleges, community colleges, colleges of technology and an online learning network. We serve nearly 1.3 million students, including nearly 600,000 in credit bearing courses and programs and more than 700,000 through continuing education and community outreach programs. Our nearly three million SUNY alumni are located around the globe, each making their own unique impact. In all, SUNY is a critical determinant of New York State’s diverse, trained, and ready workforce. SUNY was created out of a commitment to opportunity and access, and designed to meet diverse needs across a vast geographic landscape. We reflect both the land grant mission reborn and a reputation for embracing new thinking and brighter ideals. Our faculty and students are constantly seeking, generating, analyzing, and sending knowledge back into the world through informed citizens, revitalized communities, and experts who transform entire sectors. There is a SUNY campus within 30 miles of 95% of the citizens of New York State. SUNY’s colleges and universities are state-supported and our graduates have been giving back and transforming the lives of local and global citizens since we were established over 65 years ago. Millions of SUNY alumni are working in their communities every day, changing and improving the world with exceptional contributions—whether defined as a medical breakthrough, a technological innovation, an inspirational piece of art, or the birth of a new business. Through SUNY’s robust credit and non-credit workforce development programs our colleges are experienced in providing tailored certificate courses, modules, and/or degree programs that provide “Just-In-Time” learning for employees, adding to organizational value and creating lifelong learners. SUNY has a long history of developing innovative programming and providing high-quality certificate and degree programs aligned with the needs of business and industry partners across the state and nation. We have the capacity and the infrastructure to create and scale-up any program, from artificial intelligence and machine learning to aviation and aeronautics, IT and cyber security, logistics, operations, supply chain management, renewable energy and storage, communications, sales and marketing, legal, healthcare, biomedical sciences, and aerofarming. We summarize in this document examples of specific programs and resources in education, healthcare, and sustainability where SUNY can support the successful establishment and operations of the Amazon HQ2 in the State of New York. SUNY is pioneering Just-in-Time Learning (JITL) through its extensive applied learning programs as a strategy to develop critical workforce needs and strengthen campus relationships with business and non-profit partners. SUNY faculty deliver JITL both onsite and via video conferencing, telepresence, online courses and augmented reality systems. In the 2016-17 academic year alone, 185,000 SUNY students engaged in 32,000 approved applied learning course sections. 1.2 SUNY Amazon Scholars Program The goal of Amazon Scholars Just-In-Time Learning program is to offer high-quality, flexible, and just-in-time learning opportunities to employees of Amazon and Amazon’s partner organizations, helping them achieve their education goals while improving onthe-job performance. Employees at Amazon and its select partners would be eligible to apply to be an Amazon Scholar. The applications will be jointly reviewed by Amazon and SUNY. Amazon Scholars will be automatically enrolled in the SUNY program of their choice for up to 10 creditbearing or non-credit bearing courses per semester that can assist the Scholar to: (1) work towards and ultimately achieve an associate, bachelor’s or master’s degree; and/or (2) receive Just-In-Time education in an area that is critical to their current and future career success. On-line, credit-bearing and non-credit bearing courses will be no-cost to Amazon Scholars. SUNY is uniquely positioned to partner with Amazon in providing JITL to its employees. First, SUNY offers over 7,000 degree programs. The breadth and depth of SUNY’s current and future programs would meet the varied interests and needs of Amazon and its employees. Second, SUNY has a system-wide online learning platform, providing an unparalleled opportunity to access over 500 online programs. Third, SUNY campuses are distributed across the state of New York, making it possible for in-classroom experience when desired regardless of where the employees are located. Finally, SUNY’s online and on-site educational experience is flexible enough to balance the need for continuous learning with the demands in the home and workplace. As a result, SUNY has unparalleled capacity for large-scale, industry partnerships tailored to individualized employee needs, including: • Applied Learning Centers delivered at an industry partner’s site to provide “Just-InTime” learning to employees in all the fields mentioned in the Request for Proposal (RFP) including cyber security, machine learning, cognitive computing, supply chain management, autonomous vehicles and aviation science, while offering access to PAGE 1 –8– –New York Metro Area– PAGE 2 –New York Metro Area– –9– SUNY’s high-quality faculty and laboratories across 64 campuses through video conferences and augmented reality delivery systems; online programs across the systems. Specific programs and courses available online can be found at open.suny.edu. • Customized curricula for emerging industry needs; • Unique modes of education delivery that utilize stackable, modularized courses and certifications making it easier for student entry and completion; Below is a summary of the credit-bearing online courses currently available in the subject areas listed in the RFP: Subject Area # of Courses Cybersecurity 116 Machine learning 2 To increase the pipeline of students who enter our colleges, graduate and succeed in the workforce, SUNY has set an ambitious agenda to increase college completion among our students and raise the number of SUNY students earning certificates and degrees by 50% by 2020. To reach this goal, we have developed a comprehensive strategy that is multifaceted and includes: Cognitive computing 8 Supply chain management 32 • Improved support services for student programs for math and reading that reduce the amount of time needed for completion of certificates and degrees. The following degree and certificate programs are currently available online: Cybersecurity • Seamless transfer of credits across SUNY campuses; • Certificate Program in Cybersecurity (Westchester Community College) • Remediation through an evidence-based Quantway/Statway math tool; • • Early College matriculation for High School students -Pathways to Technology (PTECH); Associate’s Degree in Computer Security and Forensics (Broome Community College) • Flexible and accelerated portals, including online courses and programs available through OpenSUNY and competency-based evaluation; Associate’s Degree in Information and Network Technology (Monroe Community College) • Bachelor’s Degree in Informatics (University at Albany) • Alignment between credential programs and workforce (Job Linkage); • Master’s Degree in Information Design and Technology (SUNY Polytechnic) • Robust support services, including child and elder care services, transportation, counseling, and legal aid to help students stay on track to degree; • • Data analytics and data-guided decision-making, to maximize education and training program individualization and success (applying machine learning to human learning). More than 20 online programs at the Associate’s level in Computer Science or Information Technology disciplines where students may focus or concentrate on Cybersecurity. • Machine learning 1.3 OpenSUNY • SUNY’s system-level, online learning platform, called “OpenSUNY”, is an initiative designed to extend the reach of SUNY campuses nationally and internationally. OpenSUNY draws on more than 20 years of online learning and innovative instruction across the SUNY system. SUNY campuses deliver more than 20,000 online courses annually in a wide range of disciplines and serve to increase access to a SUNY education and improve students’ opportunity to complete. Forty-three SUNY campuses offer fully online degree and certificate programs through OpenSUNY, for a total of more than 500 More than 20 Computer Science or Information Technology programs where students may focus or concentrate on Machine Learning. Supply chain management • Associate’s Degree in Supply Chain Management (Schenectady County Community College) PAGE 3 –10– –New York Metro Area– PAGE 4 –New York Metro Area– –11– • Associate’s Degree in Business with a concentration in Supply Chain Management (Genesee Community College) • More than 30 online programs in Business Administration at the Associate’s, Bachelor’s and Master’s levels, where students could focus or concentrate on Supply Chain Management. And SUNY is also prepared to put online, any in-classroom course offering including, but not limited to, classes in autonomous vehicles, aviation science and instruction for operating and piloting drones. OpenSUNY partners with Coursera as a massive open online course (MOOC) platform provider. SUNY MOOCs offer breadth and depth of content, with planning, producing, and scaling up courses occurring at an impressive “content to market” speed in support of personal, professional, and workforce development (https://www.coursera.org/suny). SUNY MOOCs currently in development include Computer Vision, Introduction to Block Chain, Enterprise Information Systems, and Minecraft for Educators. There is solid interest in launching a course in drone management, with conversations underway among internal and external research partners. We are well equipped to move classroom courses and programs online, as well as the development of new online MOOCs, courses, and programs, in order to meet the workforce development and continuing education needs of Amazon. Quality has always been a priority for SUNY’s online learning efforts. We have been active both in establishing quality standards in the online learning field and ensuring the quality of our own online courses and programs. OpenSUNY contributed to the development of the Online Learning Consortium’s Quality Scorecard for the administration of online program and we utilize this scorecard in assessing individual campus readiness for ensuring quality in online learning through the OpenSUNY Institutional Readiness Process. Because of these and many other efforts, SUNY is recognized as a national leader in online learning and consequently has received numerous awards and national recognitions for establishing quality standards and ensuring quality in online learning (see Appendix A). 1.4 Aviation Science Seven SUNY campuses including Dutchess, Jamestown, Mohawk Valley, Suffolk and Tompkins Cortland Community Colleges and Farmingdale State College, offer certificate and Associate’s level offering programs in aeronautics and aviation science (see Appendix A for specific course listings). In addition, Mohawk Valley recently launched a drone program, “Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems”. –12– northeastern United States for training certified flight instructors and airline, charter, corporate, banner tow plane, traffic watch and air ambulance pilots. The four-year degree in aviation and aeronautical sciences provides 5,800 flight hours a year in solo and dual flight instruction. In addition to the four-year degree, the SUNY Aviation Flight Center has a non-credit bearing Remote Pilot (Drone) certification course designed to prepare students to take and pass the FAA written exam required to receive a Remote Pilot license. Mohawk Valley Community College (MVCC) has a Remotely Piloted Systems program as part of the significant development effort of the Northeastern Unmanned Integrated Research Alliance (NUAIR). This program provides the entry level piloting and technician component of the workforce development efforts in this field. With the assets of Griffiss International Airport, the Air Force Research Lab information Directorate, and MVCC’s cybersecurity program designated as a regional center of excellence by the national security agency, MVCC is well-positioned to support an economic development of this magnitude. Further, MVCC has the only 50 mile corridor in the country established for UAS testing. 1.5 STEM Education Infrastructure SUNY’s physical infrastructure is massive and comprehensive ranging from large University Research Centers and regional teaching hospitals, to small, rural community colleges. In total, there are over 2,800 buildings with more than 106 million square feet. In the last 12 years, New York State has invested $9.4 billion in SUNY’s State-operated academic and hospital facilities, supporting the regional economies throughout the State. This capital investment was largely targeted towards critical maintenance to ensure the core operations of the University, and rehabilitate, renovate and construct facilities necessary to support growing STEM academic programs to meet our State’s workforce needs. Nearly $3.4 billion supported STEM-related construction. Both the State of New York and SUNY recognized that investment in STEM facilities is vital to the economic well-being of the State and to higher education. A sampling of large-scale projects that will support STEM education in key locations in the State include: • Stony Brook University (Long Island) o SUNY’s Aviation Flight Center at SUNY-Farmingdale State College includes 13 faculty and is conveniently located off the Long Island Railroad and is the largest school in the A new $450 million Medical and Research Translation Building (MART) and Bed Tower is currently in construction and, when complete in 2018, will provide the University with a ten- story building (510,297 gross square feet) located adjacent to the existing Health Sciences Tower and Stony Brook (SB) Hospital on the Stony Brook East Campus. The MART will house Stony Brook’s new headquarters for Cancer Research, Advanced Medical Imaging, and PAGE 5 PAGE 6 –New York Metro Area– –New York Metro Area– –13– Cancer Care Center. The Bed Tower will house a new Children’s Hospital, Heart Hospital, Imaging, Neuro and Surgical ICU’s. • University at Buffalo (Western New York) o A new $385 million School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences Building (SMBS) is currently in construction and will be completed by the end of 2017. The new eight-story building (624,000 gross square feet) located in downtown Buffalo adjacent to the Buffalo-Niagara Medical Campus and will provide stateof-the-art medical education spaces, medical research labs, human anatomy labs, clinical competency labs, surgical labs, and a vivarium. • University at Albany (Capital Region) o A new $184 million Emerging Technologies and Entrepreneurship Complex (ETEC) will be bid for construction in Fall 2017. The new four-story (246,000 gross square feet) building will house research labs, classrooms, and support spaces for the Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, Department of Physics and Electronics Technology Cluster and the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity. The Stony Brook healthcare system is characterized by high quality and high value, offering a wide range of services from primary care to cutting-edge surgery and cancer care. A large number of healthcare services in Suffolk County are only offered at SBUH, including the only American College of Surgery Level 1 Trauma Center for adults and children, the only accredited heart failure and ventricular assist device program, the only burn unit, the only 24/7/365 devoted pediatric emergency room, the only regional perinatal center, the only comprehensive psychiatric emergency program, and several others. 2.0 Accessible, Quality, and Cutting-Edge Healthcare – Essential for the Growth of Businesses SBUH will soon open a 150-bed expansion, which will allow the hospital to provide all private, acuity adaptable rooms, including a Children’s Hospital, the only such facility in Long Island. Several examples of the quality of care administered at SBUH include a US Department of Health & Human Services assessment as having the lowest mortality rate on Long Island for patients with myocardial infarction, over 500 consecutive cardiac surgeries with zero mortality, a top 5th percentile national ranking for clinical outcomes by Healthgrades, and ranked in the top decile nationally by the American College of Surgeons for surgical mortality, only one of two such designations in the entire New York metropolitan region. Quality of life is one of the principle conditions attracting industry and businesses to a community. A significant determinant of the quality of a community’s life rests on the ready availability of high quality educational and healthcare offerings, and in particular Academic Health Centers (AHCs), which bring together excellent, specialized and cuttingedge care, innovative and relevant biomedical research and discovery, and quality medical and health professions education and training. The State of New York is fortunate to have some of the best healthcare and AHCs available anywhere in the United States. We briefly describe these in some detail three areas of particular interest, Long Island, the Capital Region, and the Buffalo/Western New York Region. SBUH also provides ambulatory care for hundreds of thousands of patients throughout Suffolk County. As but one example, SBUH just opened a 120,000 square foot “Advanced Specialty Care” clinic in Commack, at the geographic center of Long Island, within 30 seconds of two New York State Parkways and 1.5 minutes from the Long Island Expressway. Physicians that represent over 30 specialties and subspecialties attend at the clinic; practices also include extended hours of care. As two examples of the quality of its ambulatory care, SBUH was recently rated 4-star quality by Vizient, the largest and most reputable healthcare quality organization for AHCs, and received a 99th percentile ranking in the Press-Ganey patient satisfaction survey. Healthcare in Long Island is anchored by Stony Brook University (SBU), one of the top AHCs nationally. Stony Brook Medicine is the term used to describe all the health sciences In addition to the medical services offered by Stony Brook Medicine, two other healthcare systems are present on Long Island and interact with Stony Brook Medicine. Northwell Health operates more than a dozen hospitals of varying size and capacity, and the Catholic Health Services of Long Island operates six hospitals with a range of capacities on the island. Both organizations also offer a range of ambulatory services in both urgent care PAGE 7 PAGE 8 2.1 LONG ISLAND: –14– resources at SBU, encompassing research, education, clinical care, and community outreach. Stony Brook Medicine comprises the 603-bed tertiary care Stony Brook University Hospital (SBUH), a 900+ physician School of Medicine faculty practice, six health science schools (Medicine, Dental Medicine, Health Technology, Nursing, Pharmacy and Social Welfare), as well as a number of non-medical Stony Brook University departments and institutions that are engaged in health-related fields (e.g. Institute of Chemical Biology and Drug Development, and the Institute of Engineering Driven Medicine). –New York Metro Area– –New York Metro Area– –15– centers and multidisciplinary and single specialty medical facilities. Needless to say, Long Island has a medically sophisticated and richly resourced healthcare community. 2.2 CAPITAL REGION The Capital region is fortunate to have excellent healthcare and health professionals, anchored by two large healthcare systems, Albany Medical Center and St. Peters Health Partners. Albany Medical Center (Albany Med) is the Region’s only Academic Health Center (AHC) and includes the 734-bed Albany Medical Center Hospital, offering a wide range of medical and surgical services, and the Albany Medical College, which trains the next generation of doctors, scientists and other healthcare professionals and which includes a biomedical research enterprise. It also includes the region’s largest physicians practice with more than 450 doctors. Further, Albany Med works with dozens of community partners to improve the region’s health and quality of life. Albany Med is affiliated with Columbia Memorial Health and Saratoga Hospital. Centers of Excellence are designated in Alzheimer’s Care, Cancer Care, Critical Care, Donation and Transplant Medicine, Emergency Care, Family Medicine, Gastroenterology, Kidney Care, Neonatal Intensive Care, and Stroke, Heart Attack and Heart Failure care. St. Peter’s Health Partners is the Region’s largest and most comprehensive not-for-profit network of high quality, advanced medical care, primary care, rehabilitation, and senior services. It includes St. Peter’s Hospital, a Magnet®-designated hospital for nursing excellence, and its affiliated facilities: St. Mary’s Hospital in Troy, Samaritan Hospital in Troy, Albany Memorial Hospital in Albany, and Sunnyview Rehabilitation Hospital in Schenectady. St. Peter’s sponsors two Schools of Nursing, one located at Albany Memorial Hospital and the other at Samaritan Hospital. The St. Peter’s Health Partners Medical Associates is a multi-specialty physician group with more than 350 physicians and advanced practitioners, in more than 20 specialties and in more than 80 practice locations. The healthcare of the Capital region is further enhanced by the work and research of the School of Public Health at the SUNY University at Albany (U Albany). The School is a unique partnership between the New York State Department of Health and U Albany, with the aim of serving as leader in designing solutions and developing models that address current and emerging public health challenges, achieved through collaborative research, education, and practice activities. evaluated by The Commonwealth Fund, 2014), reflecting the collective efforts of local nonprofit health plans and physicians to improve quality and develop a regional health information exchange. The Buffalo region is served by 17 hospitals, concentrated around two large nonprofit health systems. The Great Lakes Health System, an affiliation of Kaleida Health, has five hospitals and 250 employed physicians, and includes Erie County Medical Center, SUNY University at Buffalo (UB), the Visiting Nurse Association of Western New York, and the Center for Hospice and Palliative Care. The second large nonprofit health system is Catholic Health, which operates three hospitals and a range of primary and community care facilities and services, and employs some 60 physicians. It is affiliated with Catholic Medical Partners, an independent practice association of 980 physicians that has formed an accountable care organization (ACO) in collaboration with other local providers. Other major providers in the region include Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center, Eastern Niagara He alth Syste m, which ope rate s a me rge d hospital with campuse s in two rural communities, and the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo. The Region’s only Academic Health Center (AHC) is the SUNY UB comprehensive AHC, headquartered on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus located in the city of Buffalo. It includes the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and the UB Schools of Nursing, Dental Medicine, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Public Health and Health Professions, and Social Work. It also includes Buffalo General Medical Center, Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital, Oishei Children’s Hospital, Roswell Park Cancer Center, Gates Vascular Institute, Western New York Veterans Hospital, Erie County Medical Center, and the Conventus Ambulatory Care Center-Multidisciplinary ambulatory care facility. The SUNY UB AHC also includes facilities fostering and supporting cutting-edge biomedical discovery, such as the Clinical and Translational Research Center, the Hauptman Woodward Medical Research Institute, the New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, the Institute for Healthcare Informatics, the Buffalo Institute for Genomics and Data Analytics. The UB-MD Physician’s Group (UB faculty clinical practice) is the Region’s largest physician group with over 550 primary care and specialty physicians attending to patients at over 60 locations through the region. Lastly, the Roswell Park Cancer Institute is one of only 41 National Cancer Institute (NCI)designated comprehensive cancer centers in the country assuring public access to latest new and investigative therapies for patients refractory or intolerant to standard-of-care treatments. 2.3 BUFFALO REGION The Western Region of New York State, encompassing Buffalo and surrounding counties, ranks in the top quartile among U.S. regions local health system performance (as PAGE 9 –16– –New York Metro Area– PAGE 10 –New York Metro Area– –17– 3.0 SUNY Energy and Sustainability Programs at Scale 3.1 REDUCING ENERGY USE AND GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS SUNY is committed to serving as both a model and a leader in the advancement of research, applied learning, and community development for implementation of sustainable practices in New York and across the nation. With 40% of the State’s building assets under its stewardship, SUNY does not take this role lightly. SUNY has a proven track record in improved energy efficiency and greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction. Leveraging successful implementation of requiring LEED Silver standard or higher for all new SUNY buildings and major rehabs since 2007, SUNY achieved a GHG reduction of 26.5% from 1990 levels, notwithstanding an overall footprint increase of 57% from 1990 to 2016. SUNY is on the verge of meeting the State’s goal for GHG reduction of 30% by 2020. Yet there is more to do, including an additional 19.7% reduction from 2005, to meet and exceed the USA goals in the Paris Accord of 28% reduction of GHG by 2025, from the 2005 level, and an ultimate goal of net zero. SUNY’s accomplishments in building green and managing energy usage and cost is also demonstrated in the graph on the following page. Since 2005, targeted capital investments in upgrading aging buildings, building systems and core infrastructure at campuses throughout the State has resulted in an additional 22,860,000 gross square feet, or 28%, while at the same time, only increasing energy usage by 180,000 MMBTU, or 2%. The total energy use for SUNY for 2016/2017 was 12,113,947 MMBTU at an annual cost of $189 million. Given the amount of energy usage and cost to keep SUNY’s facilities operational, SUNY has made and will continue to make significant investments in managing its energy portfolio. SUNY’s capital improvements include solar photovoltaics, ground source heating/cooling, upgraded mechanical systems, increased thermal insulation, building energy management systems, and energy efficient lighting. Additionally, the installation of duel fuel capabilities will allow for interruptible fuel supplies, which provide better pricing opportunities. Other procurement strategies include aggregated purchasing from the wholesale market. These combined strategies have resulted in a 22% reduction in total energy costs borne by SUNY over the past decade, despite a 28% increase in total gross square footage over the same period. SUNY also has a long and demonstrated track record of success in research and innovation in clean energy, weather data tracking, disaster mitigation and preparedness, artificial intelligence, wireless technologies and cybersecurity. Boasting the tenth largest universityowned clean energy patent portfolio in the United States and one of the largest universityowned clean energy patent portfolios in New York State (Source: Clean Energy Patent Growth Index), SUNY has unparalleled capacity to enable solutions that will synergize our research and innovation capacity with our commitment to a sustainable and resilient future, and as a provider of talent necessary to power a clean energy and smart-technology focused workforce. 3.2 Sustainability through Aerofarming According to Maria-Helena Semedo, a senior UN official at the Food and Agriculture Organization, as of 2014 the Earth has only sixty harvests left if we continue to farm in a business as usual (BAU) manner.1 Researchers at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), a Cornell College that is part of the State University of New York (SUNY) developed an approach to farming that does not require soil and yields three to four times 1 Arsenault, C. (2014, December 6). Only 60 Years of Farming Left If Soil Degradation Continues. Retrieved October 6, 2017, from https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/only-60-years-of-farming-left-if-soildegradation-continues/ PAGE 11 –18– –New York Metro Area– PAGE 12 –New York Metro Area– –19– the number of harvests of traditional farming.2 This “24/7” approach used by the company born out of this research notes its process allows for farm-to-table vegetables and spices year-round at scale without the use of pesticides.3 In 2003, Dr. Ed Harwood at the CALS started experimenting with different around-theclock lighting and environmentally controlled agriculture processes in order to provide vegetables and spices on demand, without the use of pesticides or soil. Known as “vertical farming” or “aeroponics,” this unique, state-of-the-art approach to agriculture can quadruple the harvests, while reducing the amount of soil, fertilizer and pesticides required to basically zero. Aeroponics also uses 70% less water than hydroponic farming, a technique where plants are grown in water, which itself uses 70% less water than traditional farming methods. capita in 2016,7 and traditional farming techniques produce 9.38 tons of leaf lettuce per acre.8 To supply fresh leaf lettuce to 100,000 people, traditional farming would require over 65 acres, while ECA could supply the same amount of produce through 150 containers that would occupy 1% of a single acre.9 These factories could be co-located at the Amazon headquarters and/or at local Whole Foods Stores and supply the local community with fresh vegetables and spices throughout the year. Further, the research by Dr. Harwood continues to improve by reducing energy use, increasing yield and further automating the operation allowing franchising and scale. The environmentally controlled agriculture (ECA) technique involves illuminating seeds 24 hours a day and seven days a week, which yields a harvest in half the time as a traditional field farmer. For example, crops that usually take 30 to 45 days to grow, such as gourmet salad greens, take as little as 12 days. Moreover, vertical farming uses less than 1% of the land required by conventional growing, meaning it is over 390 times more productive per square foot compared to traditional agriculture.4 The key to the process is the wavelength and intensity of light made available by light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and surface emitting laser technology. The process replaces soil with a proprietary cloth material, which alongside the constant light and frequent watering that is collected and reused within the system, cuts down on resources and harvest time. “They got to know me well at the Jo-Ann Fabric store in Ithaca,” Dr. Harwood said describing the repeated trial and error to perfect this technique.5 Another application of similar technology has been adopted by another company, Freight Farms, to grow the plants in an enclosed cargo container. A typical cargo container is 40 ft. x 8 ft. x 9.6 ft. in volume and produces 2-4 tons of produce per year, the equivalent of 2.3 acres producing leaf lettuce.6 The United States consumed 12.3 pounds of lettuce per Frazier, I. (2017, January 2). The Vertical Farm: Growing crops in the city, without soil or natural light. Retrieved October 6, 2017, from http://aerofarms.com/2017/05/03/verticalfarm-growing-crops-newark/ 3 AeroFarms: Our Story. (2017). Retrieved October 6, 2017, from http://aerofarms.com/story/ 4 AeroFarms: Our Technology. (2017). Retrieved October 6, 2017, from http://aerofarms.com/techonology/ 5 Frazier, I. (2017, January 2). The Vertical Farm: Growing crops in the city, without soil or natural light. Retrieved October 6, 2017, from http://aerofarms.com/2017/05/03/verticalfarm-growing-crops-newark/ 6 Freight Farms: Ready, Set, Grow. (2017). Retrieved October 6, 2017, from https://www.freightfarms.com/home#ready-set-grow 2 7 U. S. Food and Drug Administration. (2017) U.S. fresh market vegetables, mushrooms, potatoes, and sweet potatoes: supply utilization and price. Washington, DC. 8 Tourte, L., Smith, R. F., Klonsky, K. M., & De Moura, R. L. (2009). Leaf Lettuce Costs and Returns Study. Retrieved October 6, 2017, from https://coststudyfiles.ucdavis.edu/uploads/cs_public/7d/96/7d96db67-49ca-442f-95434482187c9cd1/lettuceleaforganiccc09.pdf. 9 1 container (40ft x 8ft = 320 sqft, 1 acre = 43,560 sqft) PAGE 13 –20– –New York Metro Area– PAGE 14 –New York Metro Area– –21– APPENDIX B: Aviation Science and Pilot Training Courses Offered at Seven SUNY Colleges: APPENDIX A: Open-SUNY Awards and Recognition Award Name Year SUNY CAMPUS PROGRAM TITLE DEGREE TYPE PROGRAM CODE NUTN Distance Education Innovation Award – OSCQR Rubric 2016 Dutchess Community College Aviation Science: Pilot AS 28724 NUTN Institutional Achievement Award – Institutional Model 2015 Jamestown Community College Professional Piloting AAS 23016 NUTN Online Student Recognition Award – Open SUNY Student 2015 Mohawk Valley Community College OLC Effective Practice Award – OSCQR Rubric 2015 OLC Effective Practice Award – Institutional Readiness Process 2014 Airframe and Powerplant Technician Mechanical Technology: Aircraft Maintenance Private Pilot Professional Pilot Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems CERT. AAS, AAS AAS CERT., AAS AAS 31021 87011, 84010 24499 24552, 24492 38135 Sloan-C Fellow – Alexandra Pickett 2012 Schenectady County Community College Air Traffic Control Aviation Science AAS AS 33787 20642 Next Generation Learning Challenge (NGLC) Grant – Blended Learning 2011 Suffolk Community College Mechanical Technology - Aircraft Maintenance CERT., AAS 86391, 86392 Sloan-C Effective Practice Award – Online Teaching Self-Assessment Survey 2010 Farmingdale State College Aerospace Technology Mechanical Technology - Aircraft Maintenance AAS AAS 76228 86391, 86392 Tompkins-Cortland Community College Aviation Science AS 24758 NUTN Distance Education Innovation Award - Online Teaching Self-Assessment 2009 Survey 2006 Sloan-C Excellence in Institution-Wide ALN Programming – Student and Faculty 2002 Satisfaction USDLA 21st Century Best Practice Award – Online Technology EDUCAUSE Award for Systemic Progress in Teaching and Learning – Teaching and 2001 Learning Sloan-C Excellence in ALN Faculty Development – Faculty Professional Development 2001 PAGE 16 PAGE 15 –22– –New York Metro Area– –New York Metro Area– –23– NEW YORK CITY Private & Confidential –New York City– –25– PART 1: SITES Q1. Please provide information regarding potential buildings/sites that meet the criteria described herein. Along with general site information, please provide the current ownership structure of the property, whether the state/province, or local governments control the property, the current zoning of the site, and the utility infrastructure present at the site. Summary The following matrices include additional detail for each proposed site including deal structure, current zoning, utilities infrastructure, connectivity, sustainability features, and entitlements and approvals needed. In New York City, entitlement occurs through the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP). ULURP is a standardized seven month procedure whereby land use actions such as rezonings and site dispositions, are publicly reviewed. Key participants in the ULURP process are the Department of City Planning and the City Planning Commission, Community Boards, the Borough Presidents, and the Borough Boards, the City Council and the Mayor. As an alternative, in some cases entitlements can be pursued through a State process and, therefore, in coordination with the State. Private & Confidential –New York City– –27– Midtown West Site Details Midtown West Context Map Neighborhood Zone Phase One Option Expansion Site 15-Minute Walking Radius C Proximate Subway Location Pedestrian Connectivity –28– –New York City– Midtown West Site Details Site ID Site Address P1 421 Eighth Ave. (Farley) P2 2 Pennsylvania Plaza (Two Penn Plaza) Phase 1 Subtotal 2 P3 1 Pennsylvania Plaza (One Penn Plaza) P4 15 Pennsylvania Plaza (Fifteen Penn Plaza)[3] P5 11 Pennsylvania Plaza (Eleven Penn Plaza) Owner/Developer Related; Vornado[1] Vornado Occupancy Date 2019 2019 Square Footage Site Type 638,000 Rehabilitation Deal Structure Current Zoning Lease Utilities/Infrastructure Connectivity Sustainability Features Net Illustrative Rent* Lease Term (Years) Months of Free Rent Tenant Improvements None Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space; service planned with multiple carriers and multiple points of entry; able to bring on proprietary carrier Target LEED CS Gold $85 20 N/A ~$70 Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space; service planned with multiple carriers and multiple points of entry. LEED EB O&M Gold $80 20 N/A ~$70 Entitlements/Approvals Needed C6-4 Existing Lease C6-6; Special Midtown District None Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Existing Lease C6-6 and C6-4; Special Midtown District w/Hudson Yards Overlay None Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Pending LEED EB Gold and Energy Star $70-90 New construction Lease, ground lease or sale C6-6; Special Midtown District Special permit in place for a specific building design; design changes would require land use approvals Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications Target LEED CS Gold $95-120 Lease C6-6, C6-4.5; Special Midtown District None Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space; opportunity to upgrade as part of new build Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space; opportunity to upgrade as part of new build LEED EB Gold and Energy Star $70-90 C6-4; Hudson Yards Special District None No steam connection but otherwise full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Pending LEED CS Silver and Energy Star $70-90 C6-6; Special Midtown District Air rights are in place; supplementary land use approvals required Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications; opportunity to upgrade as part of new build Target LEED CS Gold $95-120 Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space LEED EB Gold and Energy Star $70-90 687,000 1,325,000 Vornado[2] Vornado Vornado Vornado[2] 2019+ 2022 2024 P6 330 West 34th St. P7 2 Pennsylvania Plaza (New construction)[4] P8 100 West 33rd St. (Manhattan Mall)[3] Expansion: Penn Plaza 6 H1 450 West 33rd St. (Five Manhattan West) Brookfield 2019 H2 66 Hudson Blvd. (The Spiral) Tishman Speyer H3 34th St. & 10th Ave. (50 Hudson Yards) H4 H5 Vornado 2024 2027 2,500,000 2,500,000 1,130,000 Existing 615,000 5,000,000 Existing Lease New construction Lease, ground lease or sale Existing Lease C6-6; Special Midtown District None Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space 323,000 Existing Lease C6-4 None Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space; floor by floor DX units fed by cooling tower Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space LEED Certified $95-120 2022 2,600,000 New construction Lease C6-4; Hudson Yards Special District None Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications; service planned with multiple carriers and multiple points of entry Minimum LEED Silver $140 Related 2022 1,700,000 New construction Lease C6-4; Hudson Yards Special District None Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications LEED Gold $95-120 3 Hudson Blvd.. The Moinian Group 2022 1,610,000 New construction Lease C6-4; Hudson Yards Special District None Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications LEED Gold & Green Roof $90-160 438-444 11th Ave. Tishman Speyer 2022 1,200,000 New construction Lease C6-4; Hudson Yards Special District None Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications; service planned with multiple carriers and multiple points of entry Minimum LEED Silver $120 None Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications LEED Silver $95-120 None Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications LEED Silver $95-120 None Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications; floor by floor DX units fed by cooling tower Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications LEED Gold (Target) $95-120 H6 517 West 35th St. H7 33rd St. & 11th Ave. (40 Hudson Yards) Vornado 2027 1,120,000 12,865,000 Related Related[1] 2022 2023 1,100,000 2,100,000 H8 385 Ninth Ave. (Two Manhattan West) Expansion: Hudson Yards & Manhattan West 8 12,413,000 Expansion Subtotal 14 25,278,000 TOTAL 16 26,603,000 Brookfield 2023 1,780,000 New construction New construction New construction Lease Lease C6-4; Hudson Yards Special District C6-4; Hudson Yards Special District Lease C6-4 *"Net Illustrative Rent" indicates effective rent after as-of-right incentives on a per rentable square foot basis in 2017 dollars. [1] Ground leased from public entity. [2] Ground leased from private entity. [3] Alternative scenario would involve new construction of one building in place of existing Manhattan Mall and Fifteen Penn Plaza, which would provide ~4 million gross square feet. [4] Alternative scenario would involve rehabilitation of existing building, which would provide an incremental ~1 million gross square feet. *"Net Illustrative Rent" indicates effective rent after as-of-right incentives on a per rentable square foot basis in 2017 dollars. [1] Ground leased from public entity. [2] Ground leased from private entity. [3] Alternative scenario would involve new construction of one building in place of existing Manhattan Mall and Fifteen Penn Plaza, which would provide ~4 million gross square feet. [4] Alternative scenario would involve rehabilitation of existing building, which would provide an incremental ~1 million gross square feet. –30– –New York City– –New York City– –31– Long Island City Site Details Long Island City Context Map Neighborhood Zone Phase One Option Expansion Site 15-Minute Walking Radius 7 Proximate Subway Location Pedestrian Connectivity –32– –New York City– Long Island City Site Details Site ID Site Address Owner/Developer Occupancy Date Square Footage Site Type Deal Structure Current Zoning Entitlements/Approvals Needed Utilities/Infrastructure Connectivity Sustainability Features Net Illustrative Rent* Lease Term (Years) Months of Free Rent Tenant Improvements C1 One Court Square[1] Savanna 2019 500,000-1,500,000 Existing Lease C5-3 None Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space; pursuing Wired Score Certification Target LEED certification $46 20 12 $65 Phase 1 Subtotal 1 C2 31‐00 47th Ave. (Falchi Building) Existing Lease M1-4 None Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Ability to meet Amazon's sustainability goals $29 C3 37‐18 Northern Blvd. (Standard Motor Products Building)[2] None Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Ability to meet Amazon's sustainability goals $26-28 None Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications Ability to meet Amazon's sustainability goals $29 None Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Ability to meet Amazon's sustainability goals $24-49 None Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications Ability to meet Amazon's sustainability goals $24-49 None Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications Ability to meet Amazon's sustainability goals $24-49 Land use action required Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications Ability to meet Amazon's sustainability goals $24-49 Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications Ability to meet Amazon's sustainability goals $24-49 C4 C5 C6 C7 500,000-1,500,000 Savanna RXR 4555 Pearson St TF Cornerstone[3] 24-02 49 Ave. Innovo Property Group; Westbrook Partners 42‐50 24th St. Fisher Brothers; Hakim Org. 2019 2019-2020 2019-2020 2020 2021 300,000 213,000 374,000 272,000 Rehabilitation Existing New construction Lease Lease Lease Lease M1-5/R9 C9 42-22 22nd St, 42-25 21st St. Silvercup Properties; RXR 2023 605,000 New construction Lease M1-5 None Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications C10 21-21 43rd Ave. Silvercup Properties; RXR 2023 84,000 New construction Lease M1-5 None Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications Ability to meet Amazon's sustainability goals $24-49 C11 47-40 21st St. Plaxall 2024 402,000 New construction Lease M1-5/R7X None Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications Ability to meet Amazon's sustainability goals $24-49 C12 21-16 Jackson Ave. City-/State-owned; Developer TBD TBD 3,000,000-7,500,000 New construction Lease, ground lease or sale M1-5/R7X Land use action required Requires infrastructure investment; ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications Requires connectivity investment; ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications Ability to meet Amazon's sustainability goals $24-49 C13 22-09 Queens Plaza N and 22-09 41st Ave. Criterion Group[4] TBD 557,000 New construction Lease M1-5 None Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications Ability to meet Amazon's sustainability goals $24-49 C14 28-11 47th Ave. LaGuardia Community College TBD 106,000 New construction Lease M1-4 Land use action required Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications Ability to meet Amazon's sustainability goals $24-49 Expansion: Core 13 W1 42-30 Vernon Blvd. Silvercup Properties; RXR [5] New construction Lease MX9 (M1-5/R10) Land use action required Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications Ability to meet Amazon's sustainability goals $24-49 41-98 to 42-16 Vernon Blvd. Silvercup Properties; RXR Land use action required Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications Ability to meet Amazon's sustainability goals $24-49 44-36 44 Dr. City-owned; Developer TBD Land use action required Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications Ability to meet Amazon's sustainability goals $24-49 Land use action required Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications Target LEED Silver $24-49 None Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications Ability to meet Amazon's sustainability goals $40-65 Land use action required Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications Target LEED Silver $24-49 Land use action required Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications Ability to meet Amazon's sustainability goals $24-49 None Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications Ability to meet Amazon's sustainability goals $40-65 None Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications Ability to meet Amazon's sustainability goals $24-49 TBD Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications Ability to meet Amazon's sustainability goals $24-49 W3 W4 W5 W6 W7 W8 W9 New construction M1-4 11-24 Jackson Ave. W2 Lease Lease, ground lease or sale M1-5/R7-3 Criterion Group[4] 290,000 New construction M1-5 City-/State-owned; Developer TBD 2022 255,000 Existing 31-08 and 31-16 Northern Blvd. C8 2021 140,000 M1-5 M1-5 6,598,000-11,098,000 4-99 44th Dr. 4-40 44th Dr. 5-40 44th Dr. 44-00 and 44-02 Vernon Blvd. 5-37/39 46th Ave. 5-26 46th Ave. TF Cornerstone[6] Plaxall TF Cornerstone[6] Sussman Plaxall Plaxall ConEd 2020 2020 2020 2023 2023 2023 2024 2024 2025 TBD 752,000 594,000 510,000 1,150,000 648,000 470,000 1,375,000 286,000 239,000 W10 43-82 Vernon Blvd. TBD Expansion: Waterfront 10 6,024,000 Expansion: Subtotal 23 12,622,000-17,122,000 TOTAL 24 13,122,000-18,622,000 New construction Rehabilitation New construction New construction New construction New construction New construction New construction New construction Lease Lease Lease Lease Lease Lease Lease Lease TBD MX9 (M1-5/R10) M1-4 M1-4 Various (M1-4 & M1-4/R6A) M1-4 R9, C2-5/R7A & R7A Various (M1-4 & M1-4/R6A) Various (M1-4 & M1-4/R6A) M1-4 *"Net Illustrative Rent" indicates effective rent after as-of-right incentives on a per rentable square foot basis in 2017 dollars, assuming 170 gross square feet per employee. *"Net Illustrative Rent" indicates effective rent after as-of-right incentives on a per rentable square foot basis in 2017 dollars, assuming 170 gross square feet per employee. [1] Initial 500,000 square feet available in 2019. Up to 1 million square feet available by 2020. [1] Initial 500,000 square feet available in 2019. Up to 1 million square feet available by 2020. [2] Additional space available post 2020, with new addition. [2] Additional space available post 2020, with new addition. [3] Ground leased from private entity. [3] Ground leased from private entity. [4] Under contract for purchase by 2019. [4] Under contract for purchase by 2019. [5] Option on publicly owned site. [5] Option on publicly ground owned site.lease from public entity. [6] Anticipated [6] Anticipated ground lease from public entity. –34– –New York City– –New York City– –35– Brooklyn Tech Triangle Site Details Brooklyn Tech Triangle Context Map Neighborhood Zone Phase One Option Expansion Site 15-Minute Walking Radius 4 Proximate Subway Location Pedestrian Connectivity –36– –New York City– Brooklyn Tech Triangle Site Details Site ID N1 Site Address 63 Flushing Ave. #300 (Dock 72) Owner/Developer Boston Properties; Rudin[1] D1 25/30 Columbia Heights Phase 1 Subtotal 2 N2 15 Washington Ave. Steiner[1] 63 Flushing Ave. (BP/Rudin Site) Boston Properties; Rudin[3] N3 N4 N5 63 Flushing Ave. (BNYDCKent) 63 Flushing Ave. (BNYDCFlushing) LIVWRK[2] Occupancy Date 2019 2019 Square Footage Site Type Deal Structure Current Zoning Entitlements/Approvals Needed Utilities/Infrastructure Connectivity Sustainability Features Net Illustrative Rent* Lease Term (Years) Months of Free Rent Tenant Improvements 610,000 Under construction with delivery by 2019 Lease M3-1 None Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space; high speed, scalable, redundant and delivered by multiple carriers. LEED Silver; extensive resiliency measures, including telecom backups $43 20 12 $75 Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space; houses main telecom hub for several service providers' dark fiber distribution Target LEED certification $59 20 6 $75 772,000 Existing Lease M2-1 None Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Rehabilitation or new construction Lease M3-1 State Historic Preservation Office approval needed for portion Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications Target LEED certification $43 Land use action required Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications Target LEED certification $43 Land use action required Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications Target LEED certification $43 Land use action required Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications Target LEED certification $43 Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications Target LEED certification $43 1,382,000 BNYDC BNYDC 2020-2027 2020-2027 2020-2027 2020-2027 1,000,000 600,000 New construction 430,000 New construction from demolition Lease 322,000 New construction from demolition 250,000 New construction from demolition Lease M3-1/M1-2 Land use action required Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications Lease Lease M3-1 M3-1 M3-1 N6 63 Flushing Ave. (BNYDCNavy) Expansion: Brooklyn Navy Yard 5 D2 55 Prospect St. LIVWRK[2] 2019-2029 206,000 Existing Lease M1-6 None Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Ability to meet Amazon's sustainability goals $54 D3 90 Sands St. RFR[2] 2020 363,100 Rehabilitation Lease M1-6 None Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications Ability to meet Amazon's sustainability goals $54 D4 175 Pearl St. RFR[2] 2020 192,000 Existing Lease M1-6 None Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Ability to meet Amazon's sustainability goals $54 D5 85 Jay St. LIVWRK[2] 2025 1,020,000 New construction Lease M1-2/R8 (MX-2) Land use action required Requires infrastructure investment; ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications Requires connectivity investment; ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications Ability to meet Amazon's sustainability goals $64 D6 147 Front St. Guttman 2025-2030 320,000 Rehabilitation Lease M1-4/R8A None Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications Ability to meet Amazon's sustainability goals $54-64 D7 117 Adams St. LIVWRK[2] 2026 164,000 Existing Lease M1-6 None Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Ability to meet Amazon's sustainability goals $54 None Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Ability to meet Amazon's sustainability goals $54 Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Ability to meet Amazon's sustainability goals $54 D8 77 Sands St. D9 81 Prospect St. Expansion: DUMBO 8 DT1 41 Flatbush Ave. DT2 1 Pierrepont Plaza DT3 12 MetroTech Center DT4 420 Albee Square W. (One Willoughby) DT5 DT6 141 Willoughby St. 15 MetroTech Center BNYDC 2020-2027 2,602,000 LIVWRK[2] LIVWRK[2] 2026-2031 2031 192,000 82,000 Existing Lease M1-6 Existing Lease M1-6 None Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Existing Lease C6-4  None Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Ability to meet Amazon's sustainability goals $49-59 None Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Ability to meet Amazon's sustainability goals $49-59 None Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Ability to meet Amazon's sustainability goals $49-59 None Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Target LEED Silver $49-59 None Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Target LEED Silver $49-59 None Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Ability to meet Amazon's sustainability goals $49-59 Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications Minimum LEED Silver $49-59 2,539,100 Quinlan Development; Lonicera Partners Forest City Forest City JEMB Savanna Forest City[1] 2019 2019 2019 2020 2020 2020-2024 225,000 213,000 111,000 376,000 278,000 574,000 Existing Existing Under construction Under construction Existing Lease Lease Lease Lease Lease C6-4  C5-4 C6-4.5 C6-1 C6-1A DT7 625 Fulton St. Totem; Rabsky 2021 1,330,000 New construction Lease C6-4 Land use action required Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications DT8 565 Fulton St. RedSky 2021 711,000 New construction Lease C6-4.5 Land use action required Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications Minimum LEED Silver $49-59 DT9 590 Atlantic Ave. (Building 3) Forest City[1] 2023 990,000 New construction Lease C6-4 None Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications Minimum LEED Silver $49-59 DT10 590 Atlantic Ave. (Building 4) Forest City[1] 2024 830,000 New construction Lease C4-4A Land use action required (State) Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications Minimum LEED Silver $49-59 DT11 Atlantic Terminal Forest City[1] 2024 298,000 Existing Lease C6-4  None Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Ability to meet Amazon's sustainability goals $49-59 DT12 1 MetroTech Center Forest City[1] 2024 298,000 Existing Lease C6-1A None Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Ability to meet Amazon's sustainability goals $49-59 DT13 590 Atlantic Ave. (Building 1) Forest City[1] 2025 1,140,000 New construction Lease C6-2 Land use action required (State) Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications Minimum LEED Silver $49-59 None Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications Minimum LEED Silver $49-59 DT14 590 Atlantic Ave. (Building 2) Expansion: Downtown Brooklyn 14 9,214,000 Expansion Subtotal 27 14,355,100 Forest City[1] 2027 1,840,000 New construction Lease C6-4 *"Net Illustrative Rent" indicates effective rent after as-of-right incentives on a per rentable square foot basis in 2017 dollars, assuming 170 gross square feet per employee. [1] Ground leased from public entity. [2] Owner is one of several in a joint venture. TOTAL 29 *"Net Illustrative Rent" indicates effective rent after as-of-right incentives on a per rentable square foot basis in 2017 dollars, assuming 170 gross square feet per employee. –38– [1] Ground leased from public entity. [3] Option on publicly owned site. 15,737,100 –New York City– –New York City– –39– Lower Manhattan Site Details Lower Manhattan Context Map Neighborhood Zone Phase One Option Expansion Site 15-Minute Walking Radius 4 Proximate Subway Location Pedestrian Connectivity –40– –New York City– Lower Manhattan Site Details Site ID LM1 Site Address 175 Greenwich St. (Three World Trade Center) Owner/Developer Silverstein Properties[1] LM2 28 Liberty St. Phase 1 Subtotal 2 LM3 200 Greenwich St. (Two World Trade Center) Silverstein Properties[1] LM4 130 Liberty St. (Five World Trade Center) City- and State-owned; Developer TBD LM5 200 Liberty St. Brookfield Property Partners[1] Silverstein Properties[1] LM6 250 Greenwich St. (Seven World Trade Center) Expansion: World Trade Center 4 LM7 77 Front St. Fosun Holdings Limited Occupancy Date 2019 2019 Square Footage Site Type Deal Structure Current Zoning Entitlements/Approvals Needed Utilities/Infrastructure Connectivity Sustainability Features Net Illustrative Rent* Lease Term (Years) Months of Free Rent Tenant Improvements 1,423,000 Under construction with delivery by 2019 Lease C6-4 None Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space; fibre-optic system, DAS cellular enhancment system Designed LEED Gold (certifcation TBD) $57 15-20 15 $90 Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space; multiple data carriers and fibre network Ability to meet Amazon's sustainability goals $56 20 12 $80 622,000 Existing Lease C5-5 None Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space New construction Lease C6-4 None Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications Target LEED GOLD $47-87 None Ability to build out utility/infrastructure to Amazon's specifications Ability to provide connectivity to Amazon's specifications Target LEED GOLD $47-87 None Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space; Platinum Wired Score LEED GOLD $49-59 Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space; fibre-optic system, DAS cellular enhancment system LEED GOLD $56 2,045,000 2023 2023 2026 2027 2,465,000 1,275,000 940,000 833,000 New construction Existing Lease C6-9 Lease Battery Park City Special District (Zone B) Existing Lease C6-4 None Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Existing Lease C6-9 None Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space; fibre network Ability to meet Amazon's sustainability goals $42-46 Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space; Platinum Wired Score LEED Certified (O&M) $40-46 Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space; Gold Wired Score LEED Certified $40-53 5,513,000 RXR Realty[2] 2019 359,000 LM8 199 Water St. Resnick & Sons 2019 333,000 Existing Lease C5-3 None Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space LM9 180 Maiden Ln. MHP Real Estate Services 2019 296,000 Existing Lease C5-3 None Full access commensurate with New York City Class A office space Expansion: Water Street 3 988,000 Expansion Subtotal 7 6,501,000 TOTAL 9 8,546,000 *"Net Illustrative Rent" indicates effective rent after as-of-right incentives on a per rentable square foot basis in 2017 dollars, assuming 170 gross square feet per employee. [1] Ground leased from public entity. [2] Ground leased from private entity. *"Net Illustrative Rent" indicates effective rent after as-of-right incentives on a per rentable square foot basis in 2017 dollars, assuming 170 gross square feet per employee. [1] Ground leased from public entity. [2] Ground leased from private entity. –42– –New York City– –New York City– –43– PART 2: INCENTIVES Broadband Infrastructure New York City boasts – and is continuing to invest in – the broadband infrastructure that Amazon will need on Day 1. The City is home to over 32 fiber and cable providers that serve large, commercial clients with robust service and capacity spanning all five boroughs. These providers can connect to some of the largest colocation data centers in the world, including 60 Hudson St, 111 8th Ave, and 32 Avenue of the Americas. In addition to the incredible set of wireline offerings, there are a plethora of non-fiber options for redundancy. Numerous fixed wireless providers offer enterprise-level service and reliability by extending physical fiber plants using wireless-based last mile solutions. Furthermore, all major US carriers are seeking new telecommunications sites in the city at a pace never before experienced. This increase is fueled by existing deployments of next-generation, high-capacity spectrum (e.g., AT&T at 28 Ghz, Verizon at 39 Ghz), and in anticipation of thousands of new 5G sites that all providers will be deploying over the next years. The investment in 5G throughout New York City will keep it one of the highest density networks in the country. Beyond existing offerings, we are ready to leverage the existing Empire City Subway conduit network in Manhattan and the Bronx, and make additional capital investments in other boroughs. We are already investigating sizeable capital investments in the design, acquisition, construction, maintenance, and operation of new conduit and dark fiber within all five boroughs of the city. Each of the four proposed geographies are served by 10+ fiber providers, all of which provide robust capacity and service levels suitable for the connectivity needs of a company like Amazon. All of these proposed geographies are also served by all four major cellular carriers with 4G LTE service. Q2. Please provide a summary of total incentives offered for the Project by the state/province and local community. In this summary, please provide a brief description of the incentive item, the timing of incentive payment/realization, and a calculation of the incentive amount. Please describe any specific or unique eligibility requirements mandated by each incentive item. With respect to tax credits, please indicate whether credits are refundable, transferable, or may be carried forward for a specific period of time. If the incentive includes free or reduced land costs, include the mechanism and approvals that will be required. Please also include all timelines associated with the approvals of each incentive. We acknowledge a Project of this magnitude may require special incentive legislation in order for the state/province to achieve a competitive incentive proposal. As such, please indicate if any incentives or programs will require legislation or other approval methods. Ideally, your submittal includes a total value of incentives, including the specified benefit time period. Summary New York City’s appeal is evident in the companies that choose to locate here, and in the talent pool that those companies attract. The City offers a suite of incentive programs that may benefit Amazon, without the need for legislative or other approval. These incentives are designed to promote the City’s objectives of generating employment and encouraging economic expansion and business activity. As detailed below, business incentives administered at the City and State range from tax exemptions based on location to support for businesses that make a substantial commitment to job growth. New York City offers programs designed to spur new investment in capital projects, incentivize the hiring of new employees, and reduce operating costs. The total value of incentives will depend on the program, location, and timing of Amazon’s buildout among other factors. Industrial and Commercial Abatement Program (ICAP) Benefit and Area: • Property tax abatements for real estate projects involving new construction or substantial renovation. • Projects can be anywhere in the City, except for some parts of Manhattan. • The term of benefits varies depending on geography and the type of project: οο Renovation projects in Manhattan south of 59th Street or in Lower Manhattan are eligible for 10 years of property tax benefits; οο New construction projects outside the area of Manhattan south of 96th Street (excluding Lower Manhattan), or located in boroughs outside of Manhattan, are eligible for 15 years of property tax benefits; οο Projects located in special areas are eligible for up to 25 years of property tax benefits. Eligibility and Administration: –44– –New York City– • Buildings must be built, modernized, expanded, or otherwise physically improved after submission of a formal ICAP application. • Company must spend at least 30 percent of the property’s taxable assessed value no later than four years from the date a building permit was issued (or from start of construction if no permit is required). • Construction must be completed no later than five years from the date of issuance of the first building permit (or from start of construction if no permit is required). • Benefits are formalized on January 5 following the issuance of a certificate of occupancy, and the Company will begin receiving benefits on July 1 thereafter. • ICAP is administered by the New York City Department of Finance. –New York City– –45– Refund/Transfer/Carryover: Eligibility and Administration: • ICAP property tax benefits are not refundable, nor can they be transferred across projects. • • ICAP benefits stay with the abated property if the property remains commercial and the retail portion does not exceed 5 percent. Company must make real property improvements in excess of 30 percent of the assessed valuation of the building and land. • • ICAP benefits may not be carried forward to future years. Company must receive matching benefits through ICAP or operate in a building owned by the City of New York or Empire State Development Corporation, where the property will be improved by at least 10 percent of the property’s assessed value. • Upon receipt of application, a response is generated within one week and benefits are made available within two months. • This program is administered by the NYC Department of Small Business. Relocation and Employment Assistance Program (REAP) Benefit and Area: • Annual income tax credit of $3,000 for 12 years for each job created in designated locations, or relocated from outside of the City to such designated locations. Refund/Transfer/Carry Over: Benefits are not refundable, transferable and may not be carried forward. • Designated locations include areas of Manhattan north of 96th Street, or anywhere in the other four boroughs. Commercial Expansion Program (CEP) Benefit and Area: Eligibility and Administration: • Expenditures must be made for improvements to the property in excess of 50 percent of the assessed value (25 percent of the assessed value for industrial properties) at the start of the improvements. • Businesses must have been conducting substantial business operations for at least 24 consecutive months immediately before relocating. • Provided that companies can demonstrate the relocation or hiring of employees, as well as the other eligibility criteria stated above, REAP benefits will be made available. • REAP is administered by the New York City Department of Finance. Refund/Transfer/Carryover: • Benefits are refundable for the year of relocation and the following four years. • Unused credits from subsequent years may be carried forward for five years. • Provides a benefit for 15 years (10 years with a five-year phase-out). • Benefits are not refundable or transferable and may not be carried forward. • Benefit is provided for five years (three years, with a two-year phase-out). Eligibility and Administration: • Company must make improvements of $25 per square foot. • Company must execute a lease of 10 years or more if more than 125 people will be employed in the premises. • A formal CEP application must be submitted to the New York City Department of Finance. Confirmation of eligibility will be provided within 90 days, at which point benefits will be retroactively applied to the 1st of the month following the rent commencement date. LOWER MANHATTAN INCENTIVES Benefit and Area: Reduces the delivery components of electricity bills by 30 percent to 35 percent. Provides property tax abatements up to $2.50 per square foot for new, renewal, and expansion leases for commercial offices and industrial spaces in a facility north of 96th Street in Manhattan, or anywhere in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, or Staten Island. Refund/Transfer/Carry Over: Benefits are not refundable, transferable and may not be carried forward. Business Incentive Rate (BIR) • • Programs that provide benefits to businesses establishing operations in Lower Manhattan include LM-REAP, LM Sales Tax Exemption, CRT Special Reduction, and LM-EP. Lower Manhattan Relocation and Employment Assistance Program (LM-REAP) Benefit and Area: Eligibility and Administration: • Company must demonstrate a matching city or state incentive, such as ICAP, Recharge New York, or ECSP energy benefits (see below). • Annual income tax credit of $3,000 for 12 years for relocating jobs from outside New York City to the area in Lower Manhattan south of Houston Street. • Company must make a commitment to increase employment by 10 percent in three years. • Incentive is capped at $300,000 annually, or two times employment prior to relocation, whichever is greater. • Company must conduct an energy survey of the facility it plans to occupy. • Upon delivery of application materials, benefits will be made available within two months. • Aside from its neighborhood-specific nature, the LM-REAP approval process is identical to that for REAP. • This program is co-administered by New York City Economic Development Corporation and Con Edison. • LM-REAP is administered by the New York City Department of Finance. Eligibility and Administration: Refund/Transfer/Carryover: Energy Cost Savings Program (ECSP) Benefit and Area: • Reduces the delivery portion of regulated electricity costs by up to 45 percent and regulated natural gas costs by up to 35 percent for eligible businesses. (Regulated costs are the transmission and distribution costs by the regulated utility.) • Provides an incentive for 12 years to companies that locate a new facility in any area of the City other than south of 96th Street in Manhattan. –46– –New York City– • Benefits are refundable for the year of relocation and the following four years. • Unused credits from subsequent years may be carried forward for five years. –New York City– –47– Lower Manhattan Sales and Use Tax Exemption Benefit and Area: • Exemptions from State and local sales tax (8.875 percent) on expenditures for material and equipment. οο Defined as property purchased by a tenant or landlord for improving commercial premises; property sold to a contractor for use in improving commercial premises; and service of installing property.  οο For leases in the Lower Manhattan area in the initial year of expansion. Q3. If any of the programs or incentives described in the summary of total incentives are uncertain or not guaranteed, please explain the factors that contribute to such uncertainty and estimate the approximate level of certainty. Please also describe any applicable claw backs or recapture provisions required for each incentive item. Certainty of incentives Eligibility and Administration: • The tenant must be the one that is making the improvements or using the property and applying for the exemptions. • Provided the eligibility criteria are met, sales tax benefits will be made available to the applicant business. • This program is administered by the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance Refund/Transfer/Carryover: All of the City-level programs described above are “as-of-right” incentives, meaning that they are available to any applicant who can demonstrate that a project meets eligibility requirements of geography, capital expenditures, employment, or other factors. Q4. Please provide a timetable for incentive approvals at the state/province and local levels, including any legislative approvals that may be required. Benefits are not refundable or transferable, and may not be carried forward. Commercial Rent Tax Special Reduction (CRT) Benefit and Area: • • Reduces the Commercial Rent Tax, also known as an occupancy tax, that is ordinarily assessed at 3.9 percent of base rent. Requires a lease for premises in Lower Manhattan or a World Trade Center facility. Timetable of incentives For all incentive programs listed above, a determination of initial eligibility can be provided within 90 days. These programs have been legislatively authorized; no additional legislative authorization is required. Eligibility and Administration: • Leases must be for no fewer than 10 years for a facility at which 125 people will be employed. • Company must make improvements of $35 per square foot. • The CRT special reduction is administered by the New York City Department of Finance. Refund/Transfer/Carryover: Benefits are not refundable or transferable, and may not be carried forward. Lower Manhattan Energy Program (LMEP) Benefit and Area: • A reduction of up to 45 percent in electricity, transportation, and delivery costs at any Lower Manhattan property. Eligibility and Administration: • A Company must make real property improvements in excess of 30 percent of the assessed valuation of the building and land. • Full benefits last for eight years, followed by a four-year phase-out during which benefits are reduced by 20 percent each year. • Provided the eligibility criteria are met, benefits will be made available to the applicant business. • This program is administered by the New York City Department of Small Business Services. Refund/Transfer/Carry Over: Benefits are not refundable or transferable, and may not be carried forward. –48– –New York City– –New York City– –49– PART 3: WORKFORCE AND LABOR Ability to attract regional talent Q5. Please provide labor and wage rate information in the general job categories described. Please provide relevant labor pool information and your ability to attract talent regionally. Also, include specific opportunities to hire software development engineers and recurring sourcing opportunities for this type of employment. Please include all levels of talent available in the MSA, including executive talent and the ability to recruit talent to the area. Labor pool and wages Employee counts and median wages for six Amazon-requested occupations New York-Newark-Jersey City MSA New York City # of employees Median wage # of employees Median wage Software development engineers  278,950 98,430* 137,450 103,230* Other engineers 57,370 98,430* 10,040 103,230* Executive / management 163,700 141,960* 85,080 156,440* Legal 109,720 110,360 66,410 131,860 Accounting 115,680 84,140 68,380 88,520 Administrative 1,527,120 39,250 662,800 41,560 *Estimated median wages, derived using the component occupation codes of the broader occupational category Employee counts for six Amazon-requested occupations across each metropolitan area Software development engineers Other engineers Executive / management Legal Accounting Administrative New York-Newark-Jersey City 278,950 57,370 163,700 109,720 115,680 1,527,120 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria 209,800 44,500 77,810 68,000 40,980 408,880 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim 155,050 65,070 110,660 51,820 60,960 982,470 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington 134,200 41,470 51,820 24,750 37,960 625,950 San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward 131,540 32,920 45,720 24,380 25,790 332,300 Chicago-Naperville-Elgin 128,760 42,520 107,440 37,730 43,160 700,350 San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara 126,770 42,680 19,530 7,790 13,620 130,540 Boston-Cambridge-Nashua 125,850 32,110 65,280 25,910 30,900 385,060 Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue 120,810 30,600 30,270 14,790 19,340 262,120 Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell 111,800 27,020 65,020 22,310 27,500 401,220 Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington 90,710 30,560 38,190 31,200 29,540 465,930 –50– –New York City– Comparison of college student counts by metropolitan areas (2014) Metro Area Total college students enrolled in 2014 New York 1,057,288 Los Angeles 974,013 Chicago 502,189 Boston 346,157 Philadelphia 342,994 • Metro retention rate for graduates of four-year institutions: 71.1 percent • Number of people with a bachelor’s degree or higher who relocated to New York City in 2016: 82,500 Degrees conferred for five Amazon-requested occupations in New York City Degree Type (Metro Area) 2013 2014 2015 Total Engineering 5,244 5,382 5,902 16,528 Executive Management 17,504 18,186 18,294 53,984 Legal 3,874 3,416 3,056 10,346 Accounting 3,575 3,546 3,564 10,685 Administration 13,300 13,479 13,557 40,336 Total 43,497 44,009 44,373 131,87 5.3 million residents with a bachelor’s degree or higher, including 2.28 million with graduate or professional degrees, live in the New York-New Jersey-Pennsylvania region, seamlessly connected by the Metro-North, Long Island Railroad, and New Jersey Transit commuter systems. –New York City– –51– Opportunities to hire software development engineers Q6. Please include programs/partnerships currently available and potential creative programs with higher education institutions in the region in your response. Please also include a list of universities and community colleges with relevant degrees and the number of students graduating with those degrees over the last three years. Additionally, include information on your local/regional K-12 education programs related to computer science. Growth in employees in tech occupations (2011-2016, New York-Newark-Jersey City MSA) Cluster of 2011 and 2016 job counts for each occupation; growth rate percentages over each cluster NYC has grown its tech talent substantially in the past 5 years Tech Occupation Employment in 2011 Employment in 2016 Growth (2011-2016) Software Developers, Programmers, Analysts, and Network Architects 116,070 146,400 26.13% Computer Support, Database, and Systems 118,000 132,550 12.33% Computer & Information Systems Managers 30,460 32,140 5.52% Technology Engineering-Related 18,800 21,670 15.27% Total 283,330 332,760 17.45% Thousands of computer scientists graduate from New York City’s higher education institutions each year New York City has more than 25 higher education institutions offering computer science education at the bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, and doctorate level. During the 2014-2015 academic year, more than 2,500 students in computer science disciplines graduated from those institutions. A table further in the appendix lists New York City’s universities and community colleges offering engineering degrees, and the number of graduates from each over the last three years. This extensive network of institutions would provide ample opportunities to recruit software development engineers locally. Annual career fairs hosted by academic institutions provide recruiting opportunities Local and regional K-12 programs related to computer science Institution Program Name School Year Focus Program Description NYC Department of Education Computer Science for All (CS4All) K-12 Computer Science In 2015, Mayor de Blasio announced CS4All, a 10-year, $81 million initiative that will enable all 1.1 million students in NYC’s school system to study computer science across grades K-12 by 2025. Nearly 1,000 teachers have been trained and last year, close to 90,000 students received instruction across 500+ schools. NYC Department of Education Career and Technical Education (CTE) High School Various Areas CTE students graduate from high school with industry-recognized technical and employability skills. CTE supports nearly 60,000 students annually, with over 200 programs, including engineering, robotics, media tech, design, business management, and distribution and logistics. NYC Department of Education NYC P-TECH High School through Associate’s Degree Various Areas A six-year high school program, that prepares students for college and a career in a competitive industry. Each of seven NYC P-TECH schools is affiliated with a CUNY Community College that offers courses towards an Associate’s Degree (at no cost), an industry partner to help students explore careers options, and skills training. NYC Department of Education BROOKLYN STEAM CENTER @Brooklyn Navy Yard High School Brooklyn S.T.E.A.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) S.T.E.A.M. Center students receive high quality preparation, real work experience and industry networks, and tangible pathways to economic opportunity. The Brooklyn S.T.E.A.M. Center community is represented by eight New York City Department of Education Public High Schools, elected officials, the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and corporate and industry tenants of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, all dedicated to delivering high quality career and technical education and real-world learning experiences. NYC Department of Education Urban Assembly High Institute of Math & School Science for Young Women Math and Science The UA Institute empowers young women through rigorous math and science education. Through partners, students have the opportunity to participate in a range of internships. Partners connect students with role models and mentors who inspire them to not only to challenge their self-perceptions but also the stereotypes that exist for women in math and science. Each year, over 1,000 career fairs take place in New York City, ranging from general sessions to those that focus on a particular industry (e.g. tech) or skill (e.g. engineering). Many of the fairs include a conference component, providing employers with opportunities for promotion and networking with others in the industry. Here are two examples of New York City-based career fairs relevant to Amazon: • Uncubed: Tech-focused career fairs that help companies from startups to the Fortune 100 fill anywhere from five to 500 or more open roles. Attendees include Snapchat, Pinterest, United Technologies, Boxed, Jet, IBM, and BuzzFeed. The conference portion has featured the Head of Global Human Resources at GE Business Innovations, the CTO of Rent the Runway, and the CEO of Makerbot. • Startup Job Fair New York City: Connects talented job seekers with the best New York City-based startups. It receives support from organizations including Indeed, IAC, Techstars, Columbia University, and New York University. Many of the 100+ academic institutions in New York City host on-campus recruiting sessions throughout the year, often with a particular focus, like engineering, legal, business, or computer science. New York City has more coding bootcamp schools than any other city New York City has 22 coding bootcamp schools – more than any other city in the United States or Canada (as of June 1, 2017). These schools provide an expansive and growing pool of recruits in software development. –52– –New York City– –New York City– –53– NYC Department of Youth & Community Development School’s Out New York City (SONYC) NYC Department of Youth & Community Development Leggo My LEGO CUNY CUNY Early College Initiative NYU Cornell Tech –54– GenCyber Computer Science for Cyber Security Computer Science Teachers Association Meetings Middle School 4th to 8th grade High School High School K-12 STEM Robotics STEM Cybersecurity Computer Science Across 500 after-school programs, more than 67,000 students participate in SONYC. The City requires all SONYC programs to provide a minimum of two hours per week in STEM or Literacy. Public NYC technical schools or schools that offer technical electives High School with CTE Programs   Location School CTE High School Students compete in a project-based, handson LEGO robotics competition that introduces STEM concepts to fourth- to eighth-grade students. Over 300 project submissions were received in the most recent competition. 1 Bronx Alfred E. Smith Career and Technical Education High School x 2 Bronx Bronx Academy for Software Engineering x 3 Bronx Bronx Design and Construction Academy x 4 Bronx Crotona International High School x At 17 public schools in New York City, this program blends a rigorous college-prep curriculum with the opportunity to earn up to two years of college credit while in high school – at no cost to students or their families. The focus is on under-represented groups of young people embarking on STEM-focused careers. Participants include 4A’s, Con Ed, IBM, Microsoft, and Montefiore Medical Center. 5 Bronx Health Education and Research Occupations x 6 Bronx High School for Energy and Technology x 7 Bronx High School of Computers and Technology x 8 Bronx Academy for Language and Technology x 9 Bronx Academy for Scholarship and Entrepreneurship: A College Board School x 10 Bronx Banana Kelly Collaborative High School x 11 Bronx Bronx Early College Academy x 12 Bronx Bronx Engineering and Technology Academy x 13 Bronx Bronx High School for Business x 14 Bronx Bronx High School for Law and Community Service x 15 Bronx Bronx High School for Visual Arts x 16 Bronx Bronx International High School x 17 Bronx Bronx School of Law and Finance x 18 Bronx Bronxdale High School x 19 Bronx Felisa Rincon De Gautier Institute for Law and Public Policy x 20 Bronx Fordham High School for the Arts x 21 Bronx Herbert H. Lehman High School x 22 Bronx In-Tech Academy (M.S./ High School 368) x 23 Brooklyn Academy for Health Careers x 24 Brooklyn Academy of Innovative Technology x 25 Brooklyn Automotive High School x 26 Brooklyn City Polytechnic High School of Engineering, Architecture and Technology x 27 Brooklyn Clara Barton High School x 28 Brooklyn George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School x 29 Brooklyn High School for Innovation in Advertising and Media x 30 Brooklyn Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-Tech) x 31 Brooklyn Transit Tech Career and Technical Education High School x 32 Brooklyn W.H. Maxwell Career and Technical Education High School x 33 Brooklyn William E. Grady Career and Technical Education High School x 34 Brooklyn Williamsburg High School for Architecture and Design x 35 Brooklyn Urban Assembly School for Collaborative Healthcare x 36 Brooklyn Abraham Lincoln High School x 37 Brooklyn Boys and Girls High School x 38 Brooklyn Brooklyn Academy for Global Finance x 39 Brooklyn Brooklyn Studio Secondary School x 40 Brooklyn Brooklyn Technical High School x 41 Brooklyn Cobble Hill School of American Studies x In this free three-week, full-day summer program, high school women are introduced to the fundamentals of cyber security and computer science at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Cornell Tech’s campus is host of the Computer Science Teachers Association chapter and one of the largest monthly CS teacher meet-ups in the nation, bringing together CS teachers and nonprofits that incorporate computing. –New York City– –New York City– –55– CTE High School High School with CTE Programs   Location School CTE High School High School with CTE Programs   Location School 42 Brooklyn Edward R. Murrow High School x 84 Queens Benjamin Franklin High School of Finance and Information Technology x 43 Brooklyn Fort Hamilton High School x 85 Queens Business Technology Early College High School x 44 Brooklyn High School for Enterprise, Business and Technology x 86 Queens Energy Tech High School x 45 Brooklyn High School for Telecommunications, Arts and Technology x 87 Queens High School for Construction Trades, Engineering and Architecture x 46 Brooklyn James Madison High School x 88 Queens Institute for Health Professions at Cambria Heights x 47 Brooklyn John Dewey High School x 89 Queens Queens Vocational and Technical High School x 48 Brooklyn Life Academy High School for Film and Music x 90 Queens Thomas Edison Career and Technical Education High School x 49 Brooklyn Midwood High School x 91 Queens Academy of Finance and Enterprise x 50 Brooklyn New Utrecht High School x 92 Queens August Martin High School x 51 Brooklyn School for International Studies x 93 Queens Bayside High School x 52 Brooklyn School for Legal Studies x 94 Queens Cambria Heights Academy x 53 Brooklyn Science Skills Center High School for Science, Technology and the Creative Arts x 95 Queens Flushing High School x 54 Brooklyn World Academy for Total Community Health High School (WATCH) x 96 Queens Forest Hills High School x 55 Manhattan Academy for Software Engineering x 97 Queens Francis Lewis High School x 56 Manhattan Art and Design High School x 98 Queens Frank Sinatra School of the Arts x 57 Manhattan Chelsea Career and Technical Education High School x 99 Queens George Washington Carver High School for the Sciences x 58 Manhattan Food and Finance High School x 100 Queens Grover Cleveland High School x 59 Manhattan High School of Fashion Industries x 101 Queens High School for Arts and Business x 60 Manhattan Inwood Early College for Health Information Technologies x 102 Queens Hillcrest High School x 61 Manhattan Manhattan Early College School for Advertising x 103 Queens Information Technology High School x 62 Manhattan Stephen Mather for Building Arts and Craftsmanship High School x 104 Queens John Adams High School x 63 Manhattan Union Square Academy for Health Sciences x 105 Queens John Bowne High School x 64 Manhattan Urban Assembly Gateway School for Technology x 106 Queens Long Island City High School x 65 Manhattan Urban Assembly Maker Academy x 107 Queens Newtown High School x 66 Manhattan Urban Assembly New York Harbor School x 108 Queens Queens High School for Information, Research and Technology (QIRT) x 67 Manhattan Urban Assembly School for Emergency Management x 109 Queens Richmond Hill High School x 68 Manhattan Urban Assembly School for Global Commerce x 110 Queens The Young Women’s Leadership School of Astoria x 69 Manhattan Urban Assembly School for Green Careers x 111 Queens Townsend Harris High School x 70 Manhattan Columbia Secondary School x 112 Queens William Cullen Bryant High School x 71 Manhattan Fiorello H. La Guardia High School for Music and Arts and Performing Arts x 72 Manhattan High School for Health Professions and Human Services x 113 Staten Island Ralph McKee Career and Technical Education High School 73 Manhattan High School for Law and Public Service x x Manhattan High School of Economics and Finance x Staten Island Curtis High School 74 114 75 Manhattan Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis High School x 115 New Dorp High School x 76 Manhattan Manhattan Bridges High School x Staten Island 77 Manhattan Manhattan Business Academy x 116 Staten Island Port Richmond High School x 78 Manhattan Maxine Greene High School for Imaginative Inquiry x 79 Manhattan Murry Bergtraum High School for Business Careers x 117 Staten Island Staten Island Technical High School x 80 Manhattan Talent Unlimited High School x 81 Manhattan University Neighborhood High School x 118 Staten Island Susan Wagner High School x 82 Queens Academy for Careers in Television and Film x 119 Tottenville High School x 83 Queens Aviation High School x Staten Island –56– –New York City– –New York City– x –57– Universities and community colleges with relevant degree programs GRADUATES OF NYC HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS OVER PAST THREE YEARS (2014–2016) IN ENGINEERING DISCIPLINES RELEVANT TO AMAZON - - - - - - - - - - 4 - CUNY, Baruch College 389 127 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 389 127 CUNY, Brooklyn College 231 84 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 231 84 CUNY, City College 83 129 106 47 162 100 286 130 203 73 80 47 - - - - - - 920 526 CUNY, Graduate Center - 66 - 5 - 1 - 13 - 4 - 9 - - - - - - - 98 CUNY, Hunter College 132 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 132 - - - - - - - - - 13 - CUNY, John Jay College of Criminal Justice 93 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 93 - CUNY, Lehman College 200 22 - - - - - - - - - 17 - - - - - - 200 39 CUNY, Medgar Evers College 53 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 53 - CUNY, New York City College of Technology 472 CUNY, Queens College 210 39 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 210 39 CUNY, York College 109 - - - - - - - - - - - 33 - - - - - 142 - Columbia University in the City of New York 273 Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, The - Cornell University, Graduate School of Medical Sciences - –58– - 724 - - - 132 68 - - 164 18 11 - 171 67 - - 488 18 - - 136 86 - - 703 14 - - 182 79 - - 266 11 - - 158 17 - - 215 - - 315 - - - - - - - - 12 - - - - 240 - - 19 - - - 42 - - –New York City– 787 1,083 317 - - 2,842 61 Graduate - - Bachelor’s - - Total Graduate - - Bachelor’s - - Materials Engineering Graduate - - Bachelor’s - - Industrial Engineering Graduate - - Bachelor’s 4 - Engineering Technologies Graduate Berkeley College, New York - Bachelor’s 13 Other Engineering Graduate Graduate Bachelor’s Graduate Bachelor’s Graduate Bachelor’s Graduate Bachelor’s Graduate Bachelor’s Graduate Bachelor’s Graduate Bachelor’s Graduate Bachelor’s Barnard College Bachelor’s Academic Institution (standardized) Total Mechanical Engineering Graduate Materials Engineering Bachelor’s Industrial Engineering Electrical Engineering Graduate Engineering Technologies Bachelor’s Other Engineering Civil Engineering Graduate Mechanical Engineering Bachelor’s Electrical Engineering Chemical Engineering Graduate Civil Engineering Graduate Bachelor’s Graduate Bachelor’s Academic Institution (standardized) Chemical Engineering Bachelor’s Computer Science Computer Science Fordham University 122 104 - - - - - - - - 34 - - - - - - - 156 104 Long Island University, Brooklyn 28 23 - - - - - - - - - - - 62 - - - - 28 85 Manhattan College 43 - 80 30 285 92 87 22 114 60 - - - - - - - - 609 204 Monroe College, Bronx 257 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 257 - New York University 314 1,629 88 14 92 161 156 514 161 72 - 42 25 53 - 101 - - 836 2,586 Pace University, New York 195 337 1 - - - - 34 - - - - 97 21 - - - - 293 392 Polytechnic Institute of New York University 57 240 30 18 49 98 61 239 65 23 - 26 - - 28 118 - 4 290 766 SUNY, Downstate Medical Center - - - - - - - - - - - 4 - - - - - - - 4 SUNY, Maritime College - - - - - - 41 - 118 - 170 - - - 72 - - - 401 - School of Visual Arts, New York 185 137 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 185 137 St. Francis College 63 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 63 - St. John’s University, New York 173 - - - - - - - - - - - 133 - - - - - 306 - St. Joseph’s College, Brooklyn 65 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 65 - Touro College 67 133 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 67 133 Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology - - - - - - - - 12 - - - 103 - - - - - 115 - Wagner College 14 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 14 - Yeshiva University 23 - - - - - - - - - 8 - - - - - - - 31 - Total 3,868 3,794 505 307 826 958 853 1,669 934 509 467 360 706 136 112 459 19 46 8,290 8,238 11 –New York City– –59– GRADUATES OF NYC HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS OVER THE PAST THREE YEARS (2014–2016) IN NON-ENGINEERING DISCIPLINES RELEVANT TO AMAZON Administrative Design Total Graduate Bachelor’s Graduate Bachelor’s Graduate Bachelor’s Graduate Bachelor’s Graduate Bachelor’s Graduate Bachelor’s Graduate Bachelor’s Graduate Bachelor’s Graduate Bachelor’s Academic Institution (standardized) Graduate Total Accounting Bachelor’s Design Law Graduate Administrative Bachelor’s Accounting Economics Graduate Law Graduate Bachelor’s Graduate Bachelor’s Academic Institution (standardized) Economics Bachelor’s Business / Management Business / Management New York School of Interior Design - - - - - - - - - - 140 167 140 167 Barnard College - - 182 - - - - - 569 - - - 751 - New York University 2,224 6,628 1,303 254 - 1,513 35 180 2,814 2,234 - 379 6,376 11,188 Berkeley College, wNew York 1,891 - - - - - 244 - - - - - 2,135 - Pace University, New York 1,653 1,365 64 4 - 659 422 463 1,104 315 - - 3,243 2,806 Boricua College 53 - - - - - - - - - - - 53 - 97 - - - - - - - - - - - 97 - Brooklyn Law School - - - - - 1,191 - - - - - - - 1,191 Plaza Business Institute CUNY, Baruch College 6,975 2,523 191 - - - 1,732 660 659 253 - - 9,557 3,436 Polytechnic Institute of New York University - 19 - - - - - - 10 - - - 10 19 CUNY, Brooklyn College 2,167 317 41 82 - - 788 65 1,888 188 21 - 4,905 652 Pratt Institute 39 24 - - - - - - - 324 554 232 593 580 CUNY, City College 197 - 211 72 - - - - 1,633 178 - - 2,041 250 SUNY, Fashion Institute of Technology 1,681 97 - - - - - - 704 10 1,187 5 3,572 112 CUNY, Graduate Center 233 255 - 70 - - - - 290 1,006 - - 523 1,331 SUNY, Maritime College 426 188 - - - - - - - - - - 426 188 CUNY, Hunter College 386 96 253 39 - - 386 96 3,435 399 - - 4,460 630 School of Visual Arts, New York - - - - - - - - 120 75 577 127 697 202 CUNY, John Jay College of Criminal Justice - - 265 - - - - - 2,019 253 - - 2,284 253 St. Francis College 248 80 53 - - - 66 80 400 11 - - 767 171 1,243 1,046 81 - - 814 350 438 1,361 371 27 - 3,062 2,669 CUNY, Lehman College 1,067 186 125 - - - 424 67 1,285 - 22 - 2,923 253 St. John’s University, New York CUNY, Medgar Evers College 545 - - - - - 104 - 200 - - - 849 - St. Joseph’s College, Brooklyn 626 284 - - - - 190 83 418 - - - 1,234 367 CUNY, New York City College of Technology Touro College 662 103 5 - - 611 202 14 1,145 28 41 37 2,055 793 461 - - - - - - - - - 6 - 467 - CUNY, Queens College 1,604 401 668 - - 402 1,288 362 3,102 648 215 - 6,877 1,813 Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology 18 7 - - - - - - - - - - 18 7 CUNY, York College 569 - 43 - - - 203 - 873 - - - 1,688 - Wagner College 220 184 9 - - - - 52 191 - - - 420 236 College of Mount Saint Vincent 128 21 2 - - - 9 - 279 - - - 418 21 Yeshiva University 437 99 87 13 - 1,152 195 84 310 250 - - 1,029 1,598 Columbia University in the City of New York 245 4,793 784 181 - 1,328 - - 974 2,013 - - 2,003 8,315 Total 30,918 23,066 4,762 1,031 - 10,346 7,549 3,136 28,648 11,688 4,180 1,138 76,057 50,405 Columbia University, Teachers College - - - 123 - - - - - 1,600 - - - 1,723 Fordham University 1,727 2,496 340 75 - 1,347 396 371 1,590 335 - - 4,053 4,624 Jewish Theological Seminary of America 22 30 - - - - - - 18 - - - 40 30 LIM College 863 195 - - - - - - - - - - 863 195 Long Island University, Brooklyn 144 274 6 - - - 42 82 194 156 - - 386 512 Manhattan College 453 79 30 - - - 82 39 336 - - - 901 118 Marymount Manhattan College 99 - - - - - 10 - 345 - 15 - 469 - Metropolitan College of New York 189 629 - - - - - - 38 - - - 227 629 Monroe College, Bronx 1,326 441 - - - - 381 - - - - - 1,707 441 New School, The - 206 19 118 - - - - 344 1,041 1,375 191 1,738 1,556 New York Law School - - - - - 1,329 - - - - - - - 1,329 –60– –New York City– –New York City– –61– Examples of existing R&D programs within higher education institutions   Academic Institution 1 2 3 4 Program Industry Partners NYC CrossMedia Tech University Collaboration (Columbia, NYU, School of Visual Arts, The New School, CUNY, IESE, and Pratt Institute) NYC Media Lab: Dedicated to driving innovation in media and technology by facilitating collaboration between the City’s universities and its companies. In 2016, the program launched the Combine, a technology accelerator aimed at moving university technologies from lab to market by providing teams with commercialization education, and engagement with Media Lab member corporation resources and mentorship. In the past two years, the Combine has received over 70 applications, accepted 21 teams, and launched 15 startups. These startups have collectively raised $2.5MM in venture funding, federal grants and other investments; they employ more than 60 people. A+E Networks, Audible, Bloomberg LP, ESPN, Hearst Corporation, MLB Advanced Media, NBCUniversal, News Corp, Publicis Groupe, Charter Spectrum, Verizon, Viacom, The Weather Company, Associated Press, Rogers Comm., Singtel, and Tenfore Holdings NYC CrossUniversity Collaboration (CUNY, Columbia, Cornell, Stony Brook University, Brookhaven National Lab) Cleantech PowerBridge: Its mission is to turn academic research labs into cleantech businesses. It consists of two components: The PowerBridgeNY accelerator helps technologists/ scientists determine product-market fit, de-risk their tech by building early prototypes, and validates their technology through customer and industry interactions. In Hacking for Energy (H4E), grad students working in interdisciplinary groups are given 14 weeks to solve real energy challenges posed by large companies using the Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship methodology. In the past five years, PowerBridgeNY has received 139 applications, awarded $3.1M to 27 teams, and launched 12 startups. Awardees have leveraged their success in the program into an additional $14.9M in follow-on funding National Grid, GE Ventures, National Grid, Arch Ventures, Dow Chemical, Cycle Capital, True North Ventures, Osage Partners, Rethink Energy, Planet-A-Technology Partners, Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital, NYSERDA Columbia Data Science Data Science Institute: With over 250 faculty affiliates working in a wide range of disciplines, the Institute seeks to foster collaboration in advancing techniques to gather and interpret data, and to address the urgent problems facing society. The Institute works closely with industry to bring promising ideas to market. Areas of focus include core machine learning, cybersecurity, video and speech processing, robotics, sensors, wireless communications. The Institute is a $45M initiative. Adobe, Bloomberg, Booz Allen Hamilton, Capital One, Cisco, Dassault, GE, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, KPMG, MediaMath, Microsoft, SAP, Synergic, Two Sigma, Unilever, Vanguard, VSP Artificial Intelligence Research Group: Conducts research on machine learning (including topic modeling, graphical models, unsupervised ML, frequent patterns mining), natural language processing (speech generation and analysis, spoken dialogue systems, mining text and speech for emotion and sentiment, machine translation, morphological analysis, and others), and vision/robotics (facial recognition, dexterous manipulation, 3D modeling.) This is a $6.2M initiative. Amazon, AT&T, Audible, Bloomberg, DEC, Dropbox, Ford Motor Co., Google, Grammarly, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Mitsubishi, Persado, Philips, SAP Software Solutions, The Greatest Good, Yahoo Columbia –62– Focus Artificial Intelligence –New York City– 5 Columbia Machine Supply Chain and Logistics Research Group: Conducts Learning, Supply cutting-edge research on policies for inventory control and Chain scheduling, scalable algorithms for inventory and transshipment planning in very large supply chains, machine learning for consistent estimation of demand quantiles, RNN-based policies for inventory management, online platforms for transportation and logistics, smart contracts for supply chains, and reinforcement learning based methods for managing inventories of ads. 6 Cornell Tech Multidisciplinary with tech focus The Studio: Every fall, leading startups, companies, and organizations in NYC pose Product Challenges to create and build new digital products and services in response to the business needs of real companies and organizations. There are 52 challenges active in the Studio this semester. In the spring, students embark on a startup founding experience that includes identifying nascent markets, generating new product ideas, engaging customers, creating and telling a compelling startup story, and using technical and business expertise to rapidly develop new products. Since 2014, 38 startups (94 percent NYC-based) have formed on campus by 81 founders, employing 173 people, with $31 million in preseed, seed, and Series A funding raised. 7 Cornell Tech Tech Runway Startup Postdoc Program: Part business school, part Amazon, Google, IBM, research institution, and part startup incubator. Based at the Microsoft, Mathworks, Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, Runway ushers recent Docsend PhDs in digital technology fields from an academic mindset to an entrepreneurial outlook. The program lasts for 12–36 months and incorporates academic and business mentorship. Runway provides a package valued at $175,000 that includes a salary, research budget, housing allowance, space and more in the first year. In addition, the Startup Postdoc receives significant benefits and perks and corporate support valued at $400,000. Since 2013, 16 companies have been created, with more than 70 employees total, and more than $19M of investment has been obtained. 8 Cornell Tech Connected and Augmented Reality Connected Experiences Lab: The lab pursues multiple AOL, Verizon, Oath topics exploring connected and augmented environments, including augmented reality, recommendation systems, and content quality using methods from machine learning, human computing interaction and social computing. The initiative’s work is responsible for Immersive Recommendation Systems, Customizable AR-based Vision Enhancement System, and Hedonic-based Computer Vision. Throughout the year, the lab hosts research discussions, collaboration between supporting entities, and an annual daylong workshop. 9 Cornell Tech Cryptocurrencies The Initiative for CryptoCurrencies & Contracts (IC3): This is a collaboration with domain experts in finance and banking, entrepreneurs, regulators, and open source software communities to move blockchain-based solutions from white boards and proof-of-concepts to fast and reliable financial systems of execution and record. –New York City– Amazon, Fresh Direct, Dussault, Uber, Lyft, Louis Vuitton, Mars, Google, Microsoft, etc. Amazon, New York Times, Oscar Health, Two Sigma, JetBlue Technology Ventures, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Weill Cornell Medical College, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Blue Ridge Labs @ Robin Hood Chain, Microsoft, Intel, Fidelity Labs, Digital Asset, IBM, Maryland Cybersecurity Center, UC Berkeley, UIUC –63– 10 CUNY Nanotechnology NanoFabrication Facility @ the CUNY Advance Science Available upon request Research Center (ASRC): Enables the fabrication and characterization of a wide range of structures and houses a comprehensive set of tools that aid researchers in developing novel micro- and nanoscale devices, such as nanophotonic and solid-state circuits, microelectromechanical systems, and microfluidic systems. The NanoFab is comprised of 5,000 square feet of ISO 6 (Class 1,000) and ISO 5 (Class 100) cleanroom space and contains additional lab space for backend processing and support areas. 11 CUNY Software The CUNY Institute for Software Design and Development (CISDD): Pairs CUNY’s experienced faculty with software industry professionals and governmental institutions to sponsor and develop the research and creation of new and marketable software technologies, provides specialized professional development courses, and creates job opportunities. CISDD focuses on operating system enhancements, server-side software, Linux, security issues with software, distributed computing, logic, and visualization. Current and past projects include building HVAC systems automation, creating an MTA Express Bus red-light simulation, and developing Taxicab data and messaging system API. IBM, Intel, HP, Redhat, MTA New York City Transit, NYC Fire Department, NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission, NYC Department of Education, Building Performance Lab, UNICEF 12 CUNY Advanced Manufacturing The Engineering Technology 3-D Lab: Helps businesses gain exposure to and training in the latest manufacturing technologies and techniques. Since its launch, students and faculty have developed partnerships with SAP for High Fidelity Prototyping in support of projects using the company’s Design Thinking methodology: Memorial SloanKettering Cancer Center, for research on a CAT scan of a patient that will be converted into a 3D model with features that include a skull, brain, eye, skin and other soft tissues, and Standard Motor Products for research centered around the application of QCC’s 3D Printing CMM Metrology facility. SAP, Memorial SloanKettering Cancer Center, Standard Motor 13 NYU Wireless Devices, Networks, and Applications NYU WIRELESS: Research covers a wide range of problems in the development of next-generation wireless technology, from basic devices to networks to applications. A key focus area of NYU WIRELESS is in millimeter wave (mmWave) systems operating in the high frequency bands above 10 GHz. This is a $25M initiative. AT&T, CableLabs, Huawei, Intel, L3 Communications, National Instruments, Oppo, Qualcomm, UMC, Verizon, Crown Castle, Ericsson, InterDigital, Keysight Technologies, Nextlink, Nokia, SiBeam, Sprint 14 NYU Urban Informatics, Big Data & Data Visualization Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP): Urban informatics uses data to better understand how cities work, using NYC as its living laboratory. This understanding can remedy a wide range of issues affecting the everyday lives of citizens and the long-term health and efficiency of cities — from morning commutes to emergency preparedness to air quality. This is a $40M initiative. IBM, Microsoft, Xerox, Cisco, ConEd, Lutron, National Grid, Siemens, AECOM, Arup, IDEO, Lockheed Martin, University of Warwick, King’s College London, and 16 NYC City agencies –64– –New York City– 15 NYU Gov-Tech The Governance Lab: Designs open data policies and platforms and studies the impact of open data globally. It has advanced public-private big-data partnerships, studied ways expert networks can improve how federal agencies issue patents or examine medical devices, and pioneered the use of “smarter crowdsourcing” to tackle problems like the Zika virus $8M initiative. MacArthur Foundation, Omidyar Network, LJAF, MIT Media Lab 16 The New School Data and Design The Center for Data Arts: Working in collaboration with scientists, humanities scholars, policy makers, and artists, CDA’s research lab and creative studio works to expands the boundaries of data representation, pioneering radical new techniques for transforming complex information into meaningful narrative experiences. Using advanced realtime graphics, immersive physical environments, and virtual reality, CDA aims to fluidly integrate data with people’s sensory perception of the world. CDA’s practice redefines data visualization to include sound, touch, space, and motion, along with interaction and simulation, resulting in expressive multi-sensory data narratives that make the most of human’s perceptual and cognitive strengths. NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, BAE Systems, HP, D&B, Dow Jones, Goldman Sacs, Siemens, Venters Health Administration, Environmental Research Institute, Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Media Lab Sciences Po Paris, The Chair for Modern Art History at the Technische Universität Berlin, Columbia University 17 The New School Retail and Consumer Goods XRC Labs: An innovation accelerator for the next generation of disruptors in the retail and consumer goods sectors. Sponsored by world class retailers and brands as well as founding sponsor organizations Kurt Salmon and the Parsons School of Design at the New School, it is the first of its kind design-centric innovation ecosystem for the retail and consumer goods industries. Providing workspace on the campus of Parsons, access to capital, mentoring, and operational support to emerging companies in the retail and consumer goods industries, XRC Labs runs two 14 week programs each year bringing together entrepreneurs, investors, and sponsors to foster rapid innovation and unlock new opportunities in retail. BEST BUY, Intel, Lowe’s, National Retail Federation, Penguin Random House, Reebok, Shoptalk, Retail Industry Leaders Association, TJX 18 The New School Data and Design Parsons Design Lab: The Lab hosts competitions, hackathons, and brainstorming sessions that offer short-term, intensive engagement to source early stage ideas. Interdisciplinary teams with students drawn from across Parsons’ five schools capitalize on the school’s full complement of expertise to generate innovative and creative solutions to business’ most compelling challenges. The Parsons Design Lab conducts indepth design research to generate advanced prototypes and plans. Industry partnerships and support are vital, ensuring that a Parsons education fuses innovative exploration with real-world application. MasterCard, Intel, Panasonic, Godiva, Cognizant Technology’s, Baltimore Symphony, Hugo Boss, Share Our Strength, Ikea, Jeera Foundation, Ford, Lowes –New York City– –65– Examples of existing workforce programs with higher education institutions   Program 6 Advancing Computer Science Careers through Enhanced Networking and Training (NYC ASCENT) Available upon request Inspired by New York City’s emerging tech markets and advances in computer science and engineering, four academic institutions formed a consortium to enhance the postdoctoral experiences and connect the growing community of computing science and engineering postdoctoral fellows with entrepreneurs, technology professionals, and senior researchers both within academia and industry. This academic collaboration provides professional development and increased networking opportunities for its members by implementing several best practice programs, including resources for obtaining funding and getting published, travel awards, the introduction of the Individual Development Plan (IDP), and robust career services. 2 Women in Technology and Entrepreneurship-NY (WITNY) Aims to increase the number of young women pursuing careers in technology by offering summer programs in technology product design and entrepreneurship for graduating high school senior girls en route to CUNY, scholarships for CUNY undergraduate women, as well as internships and community support to help young women persist in pursuing computer science and related technology degrees. For women considering a master’s degree or Ph.D. in computer science and related technology disciplines at Cornell Tech, the WiTNY awards fellowships is available to selected students. 7 Career Pathways Initiative 8 9 5 LaGuardia Community College was one of a handful of sites across the country selected to participate in President Barak Obama’s signature technology training initiative, TechHire. Through a $3.9M grant from the Department of Labor over the next few years, LaGuardia will promote diversity in the technology workforce by training 425 young adults with barriers to employment and incumbent workers for positions averaging $60,000 a year in web development, software development, and computer network support. The intensive full-time program lasts 4 to 5 months and begins with a tech pre-training program and foundational coding course at LaGuardia before students continue to advanced training tracks offered by General Assembly, Udacity, Uncubed, and the Software Guild in partnership with LaGuardia. –66– 10 JPMorgan Chase Foundation, The New York Community The CTC supports re-envisioning and enhancing CUNY’s tech-related programs by Trust, Women in Technology updating curricula, actively engaging with the local tech ecosystem, and better connecting New York, Code to Work students and graduates with internships and jobs in New York City’s tech sector. The Consortium offers a forum where CUNY Central and its college members can learn about tech-related programs and initiatives across CUNY, launch new initiatives that address system-wide opportunities and challenges, and partner with employers, intermediary organizations such as the Tech Talent Pipeline (TTP), and industry partners regarding workforce needs. TechHire Available upon request IBM, Walmart, Google, Facebook, General Assembly, Udacity, Software Guild –New York City– Revature @ CUNY Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Emblem Health, NYC Department of Administrative Service, others available upon request Revature Since CUNY began working with Revature in 2016, more than 3,500 CUNY students and graduates from a range of majors have enrolled in Revature’s tuition-free, noncredit online coding programs. Revature is on track to hire more than 200 CUNY graduates by the end of 2017. While the initial partnership offered online training to CUNY students and alumni regardless of gender, the latest initiative targets women, who are greatly underrepresented in the tech workforce. Available upon request CUNY Tech Consortium LaGuardia’s Center for Contract Training (CCT) CCT provides customized consultative learning and development services for corporations, public sector agencies, and nonprofit organizations. Its staff assesses, designs, develops, delivers and evaluates customized training initiatives that support the growth of an organization’s employee skill base. Verizon/AOL, Citibank, IBM, Xerox The Career Pathways Initiative will focus on 10 key economic sectors and serve as CUNY’s central hub between potential employers and CUNY’s 24 colleges. The goal is to increase the number of students participating in career development, career exploration, career-focused experiential learning, and internships. In FY2019, CUNY aims to place more than 5,000 students in internships and full-time jobs. 4 CUNY Techworks Launched in 2017, CUNY Techworks’ mission is to connect underrepresented and lowincome New Yorkers to the growing number of opportunities in New York City’s thriving tech sector via no-cost applied skills education and training in software application development, web design and development, and IT systems administration. CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK (CUNY) 3 Available upon request This yearlong program provides exceptional computer science majors from 11 CUNY senior colleges with industry-informed web development training and professional development coaching. Participants attend once-a-week classes that blend technical instruction and experiential learning via small team projects. The 2017-18 program will equip approximately 110 undergraduate students with in-demand technical and professional skills and connections to paid technical internships or full-time technical employment. Industry Partners NYC CROSS-UNIVERSITY COLLABORATION (COLUMBIA, CORNELL, CUNY, NYU) 1 CUNY Tech Prep AR/VR Training Academy & Development Lab EON Reality Inc. In January 2017, EON Reality Inc. partnered with Lehman College to offer an Augmented and Virtual Reality Academy and Development Lab. CUNY students and NYC residents participate in an 11-month applied course of study. Coursework includes animation, 3D graphics, and web design, with direct links to employment opportunities. 11 Infor Center of Excellence (CoE) Infor City Tech’s partnership with Infor, through its Education Alliance Program, led to the development of the Center of Excellence (CoE), an innovative lab and learning environment where participants enjoy access to cutting-edge software, such as Infor’s Mongoose, as well as guidance from faculty who collaborate with students on projects. Hands-on experience will prepare participants to enter career paths including system analyst, developer, integration consultant, and application developer. OTHER SAMPLE PARTNERS 12 Per Scholas A 22-year-old national nonprofit, founded and based in the South Bronx. Through rigorous and tuition-free technology training and professional development, it prepares motivated and curious adults who are low-income and unemployed or underemployed for successful careers as IT professionals, and creates on-ramps to businesses that need them. Per Scholas provides technical career training, job placement, and comprehensive support services for 500 to 550 jobseekers each year. Amazon has hired 12 Per Scholas graduates, including eight in NYC. –New York City– Barclays, Cognizant, JP Morgan & Chase, AT&T, Bloomberg, CapitalOne, Citi, Google, MetLife, PIMCO Foundation, TEK Systems, Thrive, Workday, BNY Mellon, CompuCom, ConEd, Dynamic Network Solutions, Intersection, Kate Spade & Company Foundation, Nationwide, Neuberger Berman, Verizon, among others –67– 13 General Assembly General Assembly is designed to prepare students for a new career in their field of study, in topics such as web development, user experience design, Android development, data science, front-end web development, digital marketing, and more. 14 INFRONT Minority Venture Partners (MVP) INFRONT connects local women and minority technologists to business training and technology resources to develop the technical skills to gain access to high-tech jobs or develop their own tech ideas commercially. Programming includes workshops (e.g. 3-D printing, coding), at no cost; entrepreneurship training; facilities and support by staff, faculty and students; and networking opportunities and internships with other businesses and partners. Winner of the 2015 US Small Business Administration Growth Accelerator Competition. 15 YMI Training Partnerships Various Fortune 1000 companies, available upon request JobsPlus Available upon request Available upon request JobsPlus is a proven, place-based employment program designed to increase the earnings and employment potential of working-age residents in designated public housing developments. It has resulted in a 16 percent increase in average annual earnings for working-age public housing residents through job readiness assistance, skills training, and other support services. The City of New York has invested over $24 million to expand the Jobs-Plus program to nine sites across 26 housing developments citywide. This expansion is designed to secure job placements for more than 4,400 residents and is a significant component of the Young Men’s Initiative. 17 Upwardly Global’s Job Search Training Program Upwardly Global directly serves highly skilled immigrants, refugees, and asylees with degrees and work experience outside the United States who seek to continue careers in fields including engineering, accounting, law, business, and data. Participants receive industry-specific resources, networking events, and opportunities for reskilling and certification courses through national partnerships with Accenture, Coursera, and others. In the last year, the organization has supported 220 placements overall in New York across all industries and are aiming to impact 50,000 nationally through 2020. –68– Our institutions have a track record of joint appointments and corporate-faculty exchanges that allow employers to inform the curriculum of the future. Academic Institution Industry Partner Description 1 Columbia Google Network Infrastructure: Redesigning optimization mechanism that does bandwidth allocation 2 Columbia Google Algorithms for parsing and machine translation 3 Columbia Microsoft Advanced machine learning algorithms 4 Columbia IEX Improving secure trading protocols 5 Columbia 23andme Inference of haplotypes from direct to consumer genetics data 6 Columbia Dropbox Face recognition 7 Columbia Infinio Networking software 8 Columbia Meta Company Virtual reality innovation 9 Columbia Chip Scan Inc. Security for drones 10 Columbia MyHeritage Commercial aspects of genomics 11 Columbia IBM Research Video interpretation/understanding 12 Columbia Qualcomm Hardware security and chip design 13 NYU Facebook Yann LeCun, Professor of Computer Science and Founding Director of NYU’s Center for Data Science also serves Director of AI Research at Facebook 14 NYU NY Genome Center Faculty work with the NY Genome Center on projects while retaining their positions at NYU 15 NYU Simons Foundation Faculty work with the NY Genome Center on projects while retaining their positions at NYU 16 The New School Cognizant Technologies Ethnography, data, and healthcare innovation for Cognizant’s healthcare vertical 17 The New School Godiva User experience design for Godiva’s retail locations: How to attract and capture the millennial market in a crowded space 18 The New School Intel New innovations for the Intel chip 19 The New School MasterCard Wearable tech new methods of payment 20 The New School Baltimore Symphony Make music people can see UniWorld Group, NY Private Equity Forum, Pryor Cashman, LLP YMI connects tech training partners with communities of low-opportunity, highpotential New Yorkers. YMI can help connect employers to a vast youth, young adult, and adult population through partners including NYCHA, the Department of Education, the Department. of Youth and Community Development), and the Department of Probation. Particular areas of training focus are the advanced coding and cloud applications that are critical for growth. YMI could, for example, help a company develop a partnership with the City’s JobsPlus program to develop a certification for public housing residents through “self‐guided” online AWS training. Other options also include developing an intensive Per Scholas program for communities of color that creates a dedicated certification track for AWS, or working with Tech Talent pipeline to develop custom solutions for specific communities. 16 Examples of existing faculty exchanges Accenture, Per Scholas, JP Morgan Chase, Oliver Wyman, Boston Consulting Group, Western Union, Wells Fargo, AIG, Microsoft –New York City– –New York City– –69– Ideas for R&D partnerships with higher education institutions Ideas for workforce programs with higher education institutions   Program Similar Models in NYC Potential Academic Partner 1 Cross-University R&D Labs That Cater to Amazon’s Needs PowerBridgeNY Cornell Tech, Columbia, CUNY, NYU, among others Our institutions can build on their strong track record of R&D partnerships, working with you to develop new labs dedicated to key focus areas like artificial intelligence, voice, and machine learning. Labs can supply R&D equipment, platforms for shared research, co-working space, and even start-up accelerators. 2 Entrepreneur-In-Residence Program Partnerships Work with our institutions to design entrepreneurs-in-residence programs to fit your research needs. Programs match start-up founders with domain experts and venture capital funding, often supported by corporate partners. For example, you could sponsor a program in Artificial Intelligence and have direct access to startups that may become future customers or acquisition targets. 3 Amazon Faculty Exchange Our universities host a number of faculty exchanges with companies like Google, Facebook, and the Genome Center that allow faculty to work for a company while retaining teaching positions. The new CUNY Tech-inResidence Corps program, for example, will connect industry professionals with opportunities to serve on campus and in the classroom, devising and delivering education that aligns with evolving industry needs. You can leverage these joint appointments for new talent and to educate our faculty about your talent needs, whether they be in artificial intelligence or voice technology. 4 Hacking for Amazon Various entrepreneursin-residence programs Various potential partners Faculty Exchanges with Google and Facebook; the Genome Center Columbia, NYU, among others NYC Media Lab Like the cross-university projects we’ve developed through the NYC Media Lab and other programs, we can develop organized competitions for teams across our universities to solve Amazon’s technical challenges with mentorship from our faculty and your employees. 5 Cornell Tech Studio Students across all Cornell Tech programs come together to design, build, and share their work, getting vital feedback from their peers, faculty, and practitioners from the NYC tech community. Every fall, leading startups, companies, and organizations in NYC pose Product Challenges to create and build new digital product and services in response to the strategic business needs of real companies and organizations -- including, this semester, Amazon. Currently, there are 52 active challenges in The Studio. Other partners include The New York Times, Oscar Health, Two Sigma, and JetBlue Technology Ventures. –70– Cornell Tech Studio   Program 1 Tech Talent Pipeline Join the Tech Talent Pipeline’s council of 28 top tech employers to help build a pipeline of diverse talent equipped with the tech skills you need. We invite you to meet with TTP’s Academic Council – 16 presidents and provosts of local public and private colleges — and explore new areas of potential collaboration across degree programs. Or join industry partners who are helping to shape the City’s investments to double the number of tech bachelor’s recipients. 2 Degrees and Certifications Designed Around Your Needs Similar Models in NYC Potential Academic Partner Tech Talent Pipeline Various potential partners NYC ASCENT NYU, CUNY, Columbia, Cornell Tech, other potential partners Per Scholas Per Scholas Building on the success of NYC ASCENT (Advancing Computer Science Careers through Enhanced Networking and Training) at NYU, CUNY, Columbia, and Cornell Technion – together we can develop a certification program for specific skills you need. This could be a collaboration across a number of our academic institutions, or in partnership with individual universities. 3 Amazon-Specific Per Scholas Training Programs and Hiring Per Scholas is a non-profit focused on overlooked talent pools, teaching tech skills and professional development tailored to the needs of businesses. Per Scholas is developing a Systems Administrator course featuring AWS certifications to be launched in 2018, and looks forward to collaborating on new curricula. Cornell Tech, Columbia, CUNY, NYU, The New School, School of Visual Arts, Pratt Institute, among others Cornell Tech –New York City– 4 Women in Technology and Entrepreneurship in New York (WiTNY) 5 Customized Training at LaGuardia Community College Women in Cornell Tech, Technology and CUNY Many of WiTNY’s programs were innovations born from academic and corporate Entrepreneurship partnerships. WiTNY is seeking additional companies to offer customizations to its in New York programs in Curriculum Innovation, Career Access, and Community Development. This includes but isn’t limited to engaging with Amazon employees to teach innovative concepts and subjects at CUNY and Cornell Tech, creating new programs to help young women prepare for careers in tech, as well as Amazondesigned business and civic challenges for Build-a-thons and Summer Guild programs, and apprenticeship and internship experiences. LaGuardia has experience in close employer collaboration and the delivery of customized, rapid, intensive training needed to meet workforce development needs at scale. For over 25 years LaGuardia’s Center for Contract Training (CCT) has offered on-demand training customized to the needs of specific corporations, government agencies, and non-profit organizations, including executive training and hybrid and distance learning. –New York City– LaGuardia Center CUNY for Contract Training –71– 6 General Assembly General Assembly’s Enterprise team helps the world’s largest companies design custom training programs to work for each company’s context, culture, and needs. General Assembly also works with employers to develop new products to respond to marketplace gaps and develop a set of skills-based assessments for web development, digital marketing, and other disciplines. General Assembly has completed the initial pilot with over 500 companies and is now working with a broader network of employers to leverage the assessments in hiring. It also offers Talent Pipeline as a Service (TPaaS), where companies share their talent acquisition goals, and General Assembly creates a custom pipeline that meets their needs. 7 INFRONT-MVP AWS WEB Services Certifications Add AWS WEB Services Certifications and cloud fundamentals courses to INFRONT-MVP training/bootcamp style portfolio targeting community programs to increase the diversity of Amazon’s hiring pool. These courses would cover designing applications and systems, developing cloud applications; and creating automatable and repeatable deployments of applications, networks, and systems. 8 The New School Amazon Employees can choose a pathway — Game Design or Creative Technology — and solve design problems by creatively remixing software, hardware, art, and design. In this program, code becomes the participant’s second language and expressive means of connecting with others. Participants develop a sustainable process for researching, experimenting, designing, prototyping, iterating, and producing projects that keep pace with evolving technology. This course can be customized for Amazon with service design, sustainability, and transportation and delivery. General Assembly for Companies General Assembly PART 4: LIVABILITY Q7. Please provide highway, airport, and related travel and logistics information for all proposed sites. Please also include transit and transportation options for commuting employees living in the region. For each proposed site in your region, identify all transit options, including bike lanes and pedestrian access to the site(s). Also, list the ranking of traffic congestion for your community and/or region during peak commuting times. For all site-specific transit options, please see the sites portion of the NYC Section. INFRONTMinority Venture Partners (MVP) The New School Design and Technology Curriculum INFRONT-MVP Air travel Flights from New York Airports (July 2017) The New School John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) LaGuardia Airport (LGA) Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) Non-stop domestic cities served 64 74 95 Non-stop international cities served 107 3 79 Total cities served non-stop 171 77 174 Daily domestic flights 331 461 391 1,183 Daily international flights 255 38 127 420 Total daily flights 586 499 518 1,603 Total domestic passengers (for past 12 months) 27.3 million 27.5 million 29.7 million 84.5 million Total international passengers (for past 12 months) 32.3 million 1.9 million 12.8 million 47 million Total passengers (past for 12 months) 59.6 million 29.4 million 42.5 million 131.5 million Total Daily direct flights from NYC to relevant Amazon locations (Average daily number of flights to destination city in Q2 2017) John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) –72– –New York City– LaGuardia Airport (LGA) Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) Total Seattle 3.8 --- 2.7 6.5 SF Bay Area 12.1 --- 10.5 22.6 Washington, DC 6.8 12.3 6.6 25.7 Austin 3.0 --- 2.8 5.8 Boston 8.6 14.9 7.1 30.7 Chicago 4.9 23.5 10.5 38.9 London 11.2 --- 4.7 15.9 Tel Aviv 1.5 --- 1.4 2.9 Delhi 0.5 --- 0.5 1 Beijing 0.9 --- 0.8 1.7 Shanghai 1.0 --- 0.5 1.5 Tokyo 2.0 --- 0.5 2.5 –New York City– –73– Transportation Congestion Rankings for Major U.S. Cities 1. Los Angeles 2. Washington, D.C. 3. San Francisco 4. Houston 5. New York 6. Seattle 7. Boston 8. Chicago 9. Atlanta 10. Honolulu Street congestion is highly correlated with economic success. New York, though the fifth most congested region in the nation, is in good company with San Francisco (third), Houston (fourth), Seattle (sixth), and Boston (seventh). In short, in a thriving urban environment, congestion comes with the territory. New York City’s superior transit options give it a leg up over other cities. Street congestion in NYC is acute during peak commuting times, but less than 10 percent of commuters in Manhattan use private vehicles and about 80 percent of commuters to the central business district use public transit. The density of New York City’s business districts enables transit and walking commutes, creating journeys to work that bypass congested roads and are qualitatively better than those in many other US cities. Q8. Please include information on your community with respect to daily living, recreational opportunities, diversity of housing options, availability of housing near potential sites for HQ2, and pricing, among other information. Please also include relevant crime data and cost of living data. Cost of living and diversity of housing A vast public transportation system and pedestrian-friendly environment eliminate the need for a car, saving New Yorkers on transportation costs. Residents who rely on public transportation benefit from an annual transportation cost below $1,500, a savings of over $10,000 compared with the median expenditure by Seattle households. Information on cost of living and affordability is included in sections containing narrative and site details. The median monthly rent for the New York City metro area is lower than that of other major U.S. metro areas, including San Jose; San Francisco; Washington, D.C.; San Diego; and Los Angeles. By metro area, New York City’s median monthly rent was $1,290, just $40 higher than Seattle’s. As visualized in the map below, the NYC metro area offers housing options in every price range. Furthermore, the housing stock is the largest in the nation, with immense variety in construction, size, and neighborhood. The cost of living in Brooklyn or Manhattan is similar to or even lower than Seattle, across three major categories: Living cost Manhattan, NY Brooklyn, NY Newark-Elizabeth, NJ Bergen-Passaic, NJ Stamford, CT Groceries 5.24% more than Seattle Equal to Seattle 16.04% less than Seattle 16.36% less than Seattle 3.10% less than Seattle Utilities 0.33% more than Seattle 0.57% less than Seattle 6.14% less than Seattle 7.36% less than Seattle Equal to Seattle Health 8.50% less than Seattle 11.99% less than Seattle 20.73% less than Seattle 19.14% less than Seattle 9.13% less than Seattle New York City Metro Region Housing Stock Housing units Number of owner-occupied housing units 3,629,453 Number of renter-occupied housing units 3,498,424 Building type Share of rental units that single-family home 10.7% Share of rental units that are in multi-family buildings 89.3% Bedroom type Share of rental units that are studios or 1 bedrooms 43.8% Share of rental units that are 2 bedroom units 35.4% Share of rental units that are 3+ bedroom units 20.8% –74– –New York City– –New York City– –75– Safety 1. Reduce crime by using advanced technology and integrated data systems New York City is safer than it’s ever been. Among 34 cities with a population over 500,000, New York City has less violent crime than 19 of them, and less property crime than 33 of them. In fact, Seattle has more violent crime than New York, and a property crime rate that is almost four times higher. Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia have almost double the violent crime rate of New York, and three times and two times the property crime rate respectively. 2. Reduce crime through changes to criminal justice facilities that will promote concepts of fairness and confidence in the law 3. Enable crime prevention through environmental design 4. Reduce incarceration by examining risk, needs, programming, and system flow Figure 4: Serious Crime Rate (per 1,000 Residents) by Major Type, New York City Figure 4: Serious Crime Rate (per 1,000 Residents) by Major Type, ■ Serious Crime New York City ■ Property Crime ■ Violent Crime Property Crime and Violent Crime Rates for Cities greater than 500,000 (2014) (Ranked by Highest to Lowest Violent Crime – per 100,000 population) Figure 5: Serious Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000 Residents) by Borough Figure 5: Serious Violent■Crime Rate (per■1,000 Residents) by Borough ■ Bronx ■ Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island ■ New York City ■ ■ Bronx ■ Brooklyn ■ Manhattan ■ Queens City State Violent Crime Rate Property Crime Rate Violent Crime Ranking Property Crime Ranking Detroit MI 1,990 4,819 1 9 Memphis TN 1,744 5,995 2 2 Milwaukee WI 1,485 4,588 3 12 Baltimore MD 1,339 4,718 4 10 Indianapolis IN 1,255 4,823 5 8 Washington Metropolitan DC 1,185 5,013 6 7 Nashville-Davidson Metro TN 1,125 3,647 7 21 Philadelphia PA 1,021 3,388 8 24 Houston TX 991 4,694 9 11 Albuquerque NM 883 5,446 10 3 Las Vegas Metropolitan NV 841 2,923 11 27 San Francisco Police Dept. CA 795 5,303 12 5 Oklahoma City OK 774 4,411 13 13 ’00 ’01 ’02 ’03 ’04 ’05 ’06 ’07 ’08 ’09 ’10 ’11 ’12 ’13 ’14 ’15 ’16 Boston MA 726 2,639 14 28 ’00 New ’01 ’02 ’05Department, ’06 ’07 ’08U.S. ’09Census, ’10 ’11NYU ’12 Furman ’13 ’14 Center ’15 ’16 Sources: York’03 City’04 Police Jacksonville FL 684 3,941 15 19 Dallas TX 665 3,589 16 22 Tucson AZ 653 17 #N/A Seattle WA 604 6,146 18 1 Denver CO 602 3,367 19 25 New York City Police Dept. NY 597 1,602 20 33 Louisville Metro KY 592 4,196 21 15 Charlotte-Mecklenburg NC 590 3,567 22 23 Phoenix AZ 572 3,724 23 20 Columbus OH 559 4,278 24 14 City of Fort Worth TX 558 4,001 25 18 San Antonio TX 539 5,418 26 4 Los Angeles CA 491 2,128 27 31 Portland OR 473 5,235 28 6 Fresno CA 464 4,112 29 17 Austin TX 396 4,142 30 16 El Paso TX 393 2,142 31 30 San Diego CA 381 1,959 32 32 Goal 3: New York City will have the best air quality among all large U.S. cities by 2030. San Jose CA 321 2,434 33 29 Chicago IL NA 3,133 34 26 Goal 4: New York City will clean up contaminated land to address disproportionately high exposures in low-income communities, and convert land to safe and beneficial use. As part of a groundbreaking plan, “OneNYC: The Plan for a Strong and Just City”, the City has set a goal to become the safest large American city. New initiatives will: –76– –New York City– ■ Serious Crime ■ Property Crime ■ Violent Crime ■ Staten Island Sources: New York City Police Department, U.S. Census, NYU Furman Center ■ New York City ’00 ’01 ’02 ’03 ’04 ’05 ’06 ’07 ’08 ’09 ’10 ’11 ’12 ’13 ’14 ’15 ’16 ’00 ’01 ’05 Department, ’06 ’07 ’08 U.S. ’09 Census, ’10 ’11 NYU ’12 ’13 ’14 Center ’15 ’16 Sources: New’02 York’03 City’04 Police Furman Sources: New York City Police Department, U.S. Census, NYU Furman Center Since the plan’s implementation, we have continued to see notable decreases in crime and expect this trend to continue. For example, the number of major felony crimes fell by 5 percent from 2015 to 2016. Q9. Please use your response as an opportunity to present any additional items and intangible considerations with respect to your state/province and community that Amazon should include in its analysis. Sustainability and resiliency New York City is continuously investing in the sustainability and resiliency of the city to prepare for the long term. In April 2015, we made a commitment to become the most sustainable big city in the world and a global leader in the fight against climate change. OneNYC is a strategic plan for inclusive and sustainable growth and the first global resilience strategy released by any city. This plan outlines a number of goals and a roadmap for achieving them: Goal 1: New York City’s greenhouse gas emissions will be 80 percent lower by 2050 than in 2005. Goal 2: New York City will send zero waste to landfills by 2030. Goal 5: New York City will mitigate neighborhood flooding and offer high-quality water services. Goal 6: All New Yorkers will benefit from useful, accessible, and beautiful open spaces. –New York City– –77– Over the past few years, the City has made impressive progress towards achieving these goals. We quadrupled our solar photovoltaic installations from 2014 to 2015 and we became the first city to mandate that existing buildings meet standards or accelerate efficiency upgrades. We’ve added nearly 1,000 electric vehicles to our municipal fleet, provided more than 1 million New Yorkers with organics collection, and diverted 20 million pounds of waste through re-fashion and e-cycle programs. We also recently hosted the Formula E New York City ePrix, the world’s first fully electric single-seater racing series. A platform to showcase the latest innovations in electric vehicle technology and alternative energy solutions, the event reinforced our commitment to sustainable technology and green initiatives. By the end of 2015, we had reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent from 2005 levels. PART 5: END NOTES NEW YORK: THE DAY 1 CITY Information about the Cornell Technion campus can be found on the NYCEDC website https://www.nycedc.com/project/applied-sciences-nyc Research from the Brookings Institution has shown that high-quality early childhood education significantly increases academic outcomes and earnings (https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/09_early_programs_isaacs.pdf The impact and cost of our Universal Pre-K programs is reported by the Mayor’s Office http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/376-15/mayor-de-blasio-record-breaking-70-000-families-will-be-offeredpre-k-seats-this-week#/0 Ridership numbers and additional information about our NYC Ferry system can be found on the NYCEDC website https://www.nycedc.com/project/nycferry Data on the number of Fortune 500 companies in New York is routinely reported by Fortune http://fortune.com/fortune500/list Population statistics are reported by the New York City Department of City Planning’s Population Facts https://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/data-maps/nyc-population/population-facts.page The number of foreign born New Yorkers and countries of origin are based on the 2015 American Community Survey and reported regularly by the New York City Comptroller https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/our-immigrant-population-helps-power-nyc-economy/#Self_Employment-Among_US_and_ Foreign_Born_New_York_City_Residents NYC & Company publishes statistics on New York City’s cultural institutions, hospitality industry and convention space http://www.nycandcompany.org The Home of the best and brightest minds The number of foreign born New Yorkers and countries of origin is based on the 2015 American Community Survey and reported regularly by the New York City Comptroller https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/our-immigrant-population-helps-power-nyc-economy/#Self_Employment-Among_US_and_ Foreign_Born_New_York_City_Residents Degree attainment within the city and the region is based on the 2016 American Community Survey, 1-year estimate Information on the number of people relocating to New York with Bachelor’s degrees is based on the 2016 American Community Survey, 1-year estimate The number of 23-29 year olds with a bachelor’s or higher residing in the city but born outside of New York State is reported by the NYC Comptrollers Report on Millennials from 2016 https://comptroller.nyc.gov/wp-content/uploads/documents/NYC_Millennials_In_Recession_and_Recovery.PDF Metropolitan area employment by occupation is from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment Statistics survey, 2016. The data reflected is MSA level data; Software development engineers includes codes 15-1111, 15-1121, 151131, 15-1132, 15-1133, 15-1134, 15-1141, 15-1142, 15-1143, 15-1151, 15-1152, 15-1199; Other engineers includes the codes 17-2011, 17-2031, 17-2041, 17-2051, 17-2061, 17-2071, 17-2072, 17-2081, 17-2111, 17-2112, 17-2131, 17-2141, 17-2161, 17-2171, 17-2199 –78– –New York City– –New York City– –79– Pre-K and K-12: New York City is nurturing the engineers of the future The calendar of conventions in NYC can be found at the NYC & Company website http://www.nycandcompany.org/ Data on high school graduation rates is provided by the New York City Department of Education and reflects the latest 20122016 cohort http://schools.nyc.gov/NR/rdonlyres/04A151BF-F9E4-4960-8881-E1B07AA57DF8/208343/2016GraduationRatesW eb21017.pdf The impact and cost of our Universal Pre-K programs is reported by the Mayor’s Office http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/376-15/mayor-de-blasio-record-breaking-70-000-families-will-be-offered-prek-seats-this-week#/0 An overview of the Javits Center expansion plan is available on the Javits Center website http://www.javitscenter.com/about/expansion/overview/ Information about NYC’s parks can be found at the NYC Parks website https://www.nycgovparks.org/about Commuting statistics are based on American Community Survey and U.S. Census Bureau Data and published by The Transport Politic https://www.thetransportpolitic.com/databook/travel-mode-shares-in-the-u-s/ CTE program enrollment is reported by CTE http://www.cte.nyc/site/content/faq-students-and-parents Borough-specific commuting data can be found on the NYCEDC website https://www.nycedc.com/blog-entry/new-york-commute Computer Science for All’s enrollment, budget, and progress are reported by CSNYC https://csnyc.org/our-work/cs4all Transit statics for NYC and the New York Metropolitan Area can be found on the MTA’s website http://web.mta.info/mta/network.htm Higher education: New York City is making historic investments in Applied Science education Historical information about NYC’s subway network can be found in Clifton Hood’s book 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York The total number of colleges and universities in New York was reported by HR&A in October 2017, using the latest available EMSI data Metropolitan student population is derived from 2014 EMSI enrollment data published by the Martin Prosperity Institute Enrollment and other information about Cornell Technion is provided by the University Statics on bus ridership are published by the American Public Transportation Association http://www.apta.com/resources/statistics/Documents/Ridership/2016-q4-ridership-APTA.pdf The US Department of Transportation regularly publishes statistics on regional highway networks https://www.dot.ny.gov/regional-offices/region11/general-info Empire State Development reports statistics on NYC’s regional airports https://esd.ny.gov/ Information about the CUNY CS doubling initiative is provided by the New York City Tech Talent Pipeline http://www.techtalentpipeline.nyc/cs-doubling Daily flight statistics are reported by the Port Authority https://www.panynj.gov/ Workforce Development: We’re building the diverse hire-ready talent companies need NYC & Company publishes information about New York City’s airports and transit network http://www.nycandcompany.org/ The number of bootcamp programs and their enrollment is provided by Course Report Information about the Tech Talent Pipeline is provided by the Tech Talent Pipeline http://www.techtalentpipeline.nyc/ Information about NYC’s bike lanes and services is available on the NYC Department of Transportation website http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/bicyclists/bicyclists.shtml Our top colleges and universities are committed to working with you to create a direct pipeline of future Amazonians Creative options for talent partnerships were provided by the universities and nonprofits mentioned through a survey done in October specifically for the purpose of this RFP. More information can be found in the appendix. The Tri-State Transportation Campaign tracks the use of cars in NYC http://blog.tstc.org/2017/04/21/car-free-new-york-city Comparative information about NYC and other American rental markets is published by the NYU Furman Center annually http://furmancenter.org/nrhl and http://furmancenter.org/files/NYUFurmanCenter_2017_National_Rental_Housing_ Landscape_04OCT2017.pdf The world’s greatest city to live In CBRE reports rankings of America’s tech ecosystems annually https://www.cbre.us/research-and-reports/Scoring-Tech-Talent-2017 The Housing and Transportation Affordability Index provides neighborhood-level information about the cost of housing and transportation https://htaindex.cnt.org/ The FBI regularly publishes data on trends in criminal activity https://www.fbi.gov/ The New York City Department of Buildings tracks annual permits for residential units http://www1.nyc.gov/site/buildings/index.page A list of New York City’s Broadway theaters can be found at the New York Show Tickets website http://www.nytix.com/Links/Broadway/broadwaytheatres.html Driving innovation across all industries Information and statistics about music events in NYC are reported by the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/mome/pdf/MOME_Music_Report_2017_DIGITAL.pdf Tourism statistics are reported by the Mayor’s Office of NYC http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/963-16/mayor-de-blasio-total-nyc-visitors-surpasses-60-million-first-time –80– –New York City– Data on New York City employment across industries is from the New York State Department of Labor, US Bureau of Labor Statistics, August 2017. We are reinventing our economy to become a global capital for technology –New York City– –81– Workforce data on the number of software engineers is from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment Statistics Survey, 2016; MSA level data. The number of degrees awarded in engineering fields is from a survey conducted by NYCEDC in October 2017 for this purpose; see Appendix for detail. Ability to Attract Talent Regionally The comparison of college student counts by metropolitan areas and the metro retention rate for college graduates from 4 year institutions comes from CityLab: The Reality of America’s College Towns, September 2016. Data on the wages for tech employees comes from CBRE: Scoring Tech Talent in North America 2017. https://www.cbre.us/research-and-reports/Scoring-Tech-Talent-2017 The number of people with bachelor’s degrees or higher that relocated to New York City and the count of degrees conferred for five Amazon-requested in the New York metropolitan area in 2006 comes from the American Community Survey, 1 year estimates, 2016. Information on the expansion of tech companies in NYC over the last three years and Google’s growth comes from data collected by HR&A Advisors. The number of residents with bachelors degrees or higher in the NY-NJ-PA region comes from HR&A’s Tech Ecosystem Study Update, Oct 2017. Start-ups information on the number of startups and incubators comes from Digital.nyc, NYC’s hub for tech and startups. http://www.digital.nyc/ Opportunities to hire software development engineers Data on venture capital funding comes from PitchBook, Inc; New York Metropolitan Area, October 5, 2017. Volumes of funding by industry comes from 2016 data collected by Built in NYC, an online community for NYC startups. Information on the largest workforce of design and creative industry professionals in the country comes from the Center for an Urban Future’s report, Creative New York from June 2015. https://nycfuture.org/research/creative-new-york-2015 The chart on New York City Metropolitan Area total venture capital invested comes from PitchBook, Inc; New York Metropolitan Area, October 5, 2017. We’re building on our longstanding leadership in media and the creative sectors to lead the next wave of innovation Employment data on New York City’s tech talent and growth rates comes from CBRE Research: 2017 Scoring Tech Talent. The number of graduates from New York City’s higher education institutions comes from IPEDS Completions Survey from the National Center for Education Statistics. Existing Programs with Higher Education Institutions The number of coding bootcamp schools come from the Course Report 2017 Coding Bootcamp Market Size Study. Livability The size of the creative industry workforce comes from the Center for an Urban Future’s report, Creative New York from June 2015. https://nycfuture.org/research/creative-new-york-2015 Flight information and schedules for New York airports was provided by the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, which operates all three airports. http://www.panynj.gov/ Information on music record labels, the number of documentaries produced by NYC companies receiving awards comes from a report commissioned by the Mayor’s Office of Music and Entertainment and issued by BCG, “The Media and Entertainment Industry in NYC: Trends and Recommendations for the Future” published in October 2015. US News & World Report ranked New York as fifth on the list of most congested cities, behind LA, Washington, DC, SF, and Houston. https://www.usnews.com/news/slideshows/worst-traffic-cities-in-america-ranked Information on fashion headquarters comes from the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Senate in a report titled, “The New Economy of Fashion” published in February 2016. Data about transit use by commuters in New York City came from the 2006-2010 American Community Survey and from the MTA website. http://web.mta.info/mta/network.htm#statsnyct Data on Kickstarter money raised and the number of Etsy sellers relative to cab drivers comes from the Center for an Urban Future’s Creative New York report. https://nycfuture.org/research/creative-new-york-2015 We’re investing in the next big breakthroughs in healthcare and life sciences Median monthly rent, housing stock, and other housing data for major American cities comes from Furman Center’s 2017 report, National Rental Housing Landscape http://furmancenter.org/files/NYUFurmanCenter_2017_National_Rental_Housing_Landscape_04OCT2017.pdf The size of the healthcare industry comes from New York State Department of Labor, US Bureau of Labor Statistics, August 2017. Seattle’s household spend data comes from the H&T Affordability Index ( https://htaindex.cnt.org The volume of NIH funding comes from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) report published by the Boston Planning & Development Agency Research Division, August 2016. Non-housing and non-transportation living costs come from the Council for Community and Economic Research’s (C2ER) report in Q2 2017. Workforce and labor Crime statistics come from a Politico article reporting on Mayor de Blasio’s comments http://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2017/01/de-blasio-new-york-city-is-a-model-for-reducingcrime-108465 and an FBI report https://ucr.fbi.gov/ Information about our photovoltaic installations comes from NYC & Company’s Research Division. Labor Pool and Wages The employee counts and median wages for Amazon-requested occupations are from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment Statistics survey, 2016; MSA level data; Software development engineers includes codes 15-1111, 15-1121, 15-1131, 15-1132, 15-1133, 15-1134, 15-1141, 15-1142, 15-1143, 15-1151, 15-1152, 15-1199. Updated progress on our greenhouse emissions goals comes from the 2017 OneNYC Progress Report http://onenyc.cityofnewyork.us/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/OneNYC_Progress_Report_2017.pdf The comparison of employee counts for five Amazon-requested occupations across metropolitan areas comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment Statistics survey, 2016; MSA level data; Software development engineers includes codes 15-1111, 15-1121, 15-1131, 15-1132, 15-1133, 15-1134, 15-1141, 15-1142, 15-1143, 15-1151, 15-1152, 15-1199. –82– –New York City– –New York City– –83– PROPOSED NEIGHBORHOODS Brooklyn Tech Triangle Projections relating to the availability of new office space in New York City between 2017 and 2019 are reported by New York Building Congress. Information regarding the number of hotels and hotel rooms in Brooklyn is reported by Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, 2017. Long Island City Data regarding the number of miles of bike lanes in Brooklyn comes from NYC Bike Maps. www.nycbikemaps.com Long Island City Partnership published information regarding hotel construction in Long Island City, “LIC Quickfacts – October 2017.” https://longislandcityqueens.com/media/filer_public/de/8c/de8c28ea-dac2-41ac-9a59-2c48443e5a92/lic_quick_facts_ october_2017.pdf Information on the projected increase in residential development comes from Downtown Brooklyn Partnership. Information regarding the scale of Grand Central Terminal comes from a report by Railway Technology, “Grand Central Terminal, New York City, United States of America.” http://www.railway-technology.com/projects/grandcentralterminal/ Long Island City Partnership published information regarding the residential population of Long Island City. https://longislandcityqueens.com/media/filer_public/de/8c/de8c28ea-dac2-41ac-9a59-2c48443e5a92/lic_quick_facts_ october_2017.pdf Data regarding the number of annual visitors and events for Brooklyn Bridge Park comes from Brooklyn Bridge Park. Information regarding the number of world-class institutions of higher education that provide instruction to 66,000 undergraduate and graduate students comes from Downtown Brooklyn Partnership. Site Details Information regarding the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure comes from New York City Department of City Planning . https://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/applicants/applicant-portal/step5-ulurp-process.page Long Island City Partnership publishes information regarding schools and educational options in Long Island City. https://longislandcityqueens.com/ Lower Manhattan Downtown Alliance publishes information regarding residents and employees in Lower Manhattan. http://www.downtownny.com/sites/default/files/research/Q2_17_LM_Fact_Sheet_Update.pdf Downtown Alliance publishes information regarding the square footage of commercial space in Lower Manhattan. http://www.downtownny.com/sites/default/files/research/Q2_17_LM_Fact_Sheet_Update.pdf Midtown West Information regarding the population of New York City comes from the US Census Bureau, 2015. Information regarding the number of people who visit the Broadway Theater District comes from the Broadway League, 2017. Information regarding Hudson Park & Boulevard, and its completed first phase, comes from Metropolitan Transportation Authority, 2017. –84– –New York City– –New York City– –85– PART 6: LETTERS OF ENDORSEMENT Jeff Bezos Chairman & CEO Amazon 410 Terry Avenue North Seattle, WA, 98109-5210 Dear Mr. Bezos, You may think of New York City as the home of Wall Street, Broadway, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. You may think of New York as the most diverse city in the country, where 45 percent of the labor force is foreign-born, and where over 200 languages are spoken. But less well-known is the fact that New York is also the academic capital of the United States. Today, there are over half a million undergraduate students enrolled at more than 100 colleges and universities throughout the five boroughs. In your search for a place for your second headquarters, we hope that Amazon will recognize the tremendous talent of our students and faculty, the numerous world-changing inventions and startups emerging from NYC research labs, and the strong academic pipeline we can provide to your company. Our robust consortium of colleges and universities is part of what makes New York the clear choice for Amazon’s second headquarters. New York City is home to the most educated workforce in the country. Over 2.3 million residents have a bachelor’s degree or higher; this is more than the number of people with a bachelor’s degree in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Washington D.C., and Atlanta combined. In 2015, NYC universities bestowed approximately 100,000 undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral degrees. Our institutions are committed to research and development, and, like Amazon, are on the cutting edge of innovation. In 2016, New York City’s major academic institutions invested $2.9 billion in basic and translational R&D, primarily from NIH, NSF, and other Federal agency grants, as well as a significant volume from industry collaborations. Our schools are paving the way in the key fields that will continue to drive innovation for Amazon, including data science, artificial intelligence, machine vision, semantic search, robotics, mobile data, autonomous vehicles, augmented and virtual reality, cybersecurity, logistics, healthcare IT, and much more. In the last year alone, the institutions co-signing this support letter collectively saw over 1,000 new inventions emerge from university research labs, leading to over 300 new licenses and options to industry, and 46 new research-backed startups. The total startup ecosystem emerging from the universities’ faculty-, student-, and alumni-led startups is significant and growing. INDUSTRY AND ACADEMIC PARTNERS Our institutions have outstanding undergraduate and graduate engineering and technology programs, as well as many of the world’s leading graduate programs in business, law, journalism, bioinformatics, design and other fields of interest to Amazon. We also have affiliated hospitals serving one of the world’s most dense and diverse patient populations, relevant to Amazon’s explorations in human health. While each of our institutions is strong individually, their impact is amplified by frequent and successful collaborative initiatives. For example, Columbia University, NYU and CUNY jointly run the National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovation Corps node for the region, providing education, mentorship, and ignition funding to the next wave of NSF-initiated startups. Other efforts to accelerate tech innovation include cross-institutional programs such as NYC Media Lab and PowerBridgeNY, which work to turn research into business in media and clean tech, respectively. Combined, those programs have received over 200 applications, spawned 48 projects and led to the launch of 27 startups in the past five years. Potentially of interest to Amazon would be NYC Media Lab startup graduates Vidrovr (computer vision/AI-driven video content management systems), Geopipe (rapid 3D modeling of city environments for urban development), Braiq (human signal based AI/deep learning for self-driving cars), and Gleam (text-based patient reminder service improving access to mental health). From these two collaborations, and other inter-institutional efforts, we have a track record of streamlining the process by which industry and venture capital interacts with university-based innovations, including being able to facilitate industry-sponsored research, intellectual property licensing, and shared data sets. We are also uniting our entrepreneur-in-residence networks to further cultivate the startup community in NYC, enabling venture-fundable serial entrepreneurs from one institution to partner with the most promising startups across the city. In fact, our shared best practices on tech acceleration led to a recent joint article in the peer-reviewed Journal of the National Academy of Inventors. We’ve now also launched a combined Accelerator Network to further streamline and scale these accelerators, moving technologies to market faster and in new areas. The City and our educational institutions have a number of existing programs dedicated to teaching high-demand tech skills. The NYC Tech Talent Pipeline, for example, works with 16 public and private local colleges and 200 top tech firms and is aiming to deliver on the Mayor’s goal of doubling the number of New Yorkers earning tech bachelor’s degrees by 2022. To prime this pipeline, the public high schools and community colleges have developed innovative programs, like College Now, CUNY Start, the Early College Initiative, and the Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP), to guide and support students in exploring career options, persisting in their academic programs and eventually obtaining jobs in high-tech organizations. –86– –New York City– –New York City– –87– We are passionate about and actively support these cross-institutional collaborations, and look forward to developing specific programs tailored to Amazon. For instance, we might build on our successes with the NYC Media Lab and PowerBridgeNY to collaboratively launch NYC Labs for robotics, machine learning and AI, healthtech, data science, or cloud computing, in addition to continuing to grow our media, AR / VR, energy, and cyber presence. We could establish Amazon Faculty Exchanges for joint appointments or temporary researcher exchanges; launch Hacking for Amazon competitions to allow students to work on class projects built around Amazon’s technical or business challenges; or develop Amazon-specific education and training programs. In all of our efforts among ourselves and between industry and academia, we have found the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) to be to be a valued and helpful partner. NYCEDC’s ability to execute innovative collaborations and transformational projects is second to none. NYC’s academic institutions have worked with the City and NYCEDC to expand campuses physically and programmatically and enhance our ability to contribute to the city, region, and larger society. Most recently, NYC celebrated the opening of Cornell Tech, a $2 billion, 22-million-square-foot applied science and engineering campus on Roosevelt Island that will soon be home to more than 2,000 graduate students and faculty who will lead innovative research, companies, and social ventures. NYCEDC’s Applied Sciences Initiative lead to the creation of Columbia’s Data Science Institute in Manhattan, and NYU’s Center for Urban Science & Progress focused on urban informatics in Brooklyn. NYCEDC is truly an innovator in ways to connect our leading educational institutions with the city’s 9,000 startups and existing industry leaders. Just this year, NYCEDC announced a 258,000 SF tech hub in Union Square that will serve as a focal point for tech training and activity in the core of our “Silicon Alley,” co-locating growth-stage tech companies with training organizations like the New York City Foundation for Computer Science Education, General Assembly, Per Scholas, Code to Work, and Coalition for Queens. In our experience, NYCEDC is willing not only to initiate new programs but will also remain a dedicated partner through good times and bad, working through issues that arise to the benefit of all parties. We enthusiastically support New York City’s bid for Amazon’s headquarters. The combination of one of the most impressive higher education platforms in the nation, and the city’s strong track record of connecting academia to industry, means that Amazon in New York would have access to unparalleled resources and talent. We hope to have the opportunity to collaborate to our mutual benefit. Sincerely, Nicholas Allard, President, Brooklyn Law School Marvin Krislov, President, Pace University Jamshed Bharucha, President, Cooper Union Timothy P. O’Connor, Executive Vice President, Rockefeller University Dr. Joyce F. Brown, President, Fashion Institute of Technology Kirk Pillow, Interim President, Pratt Institute Thomas A. Dunne, Vice President, Fordham University David Van Zandt, President, The New School Hank Foley, President, New York Institute of Technology James Milliken, Chancellor, City University of New York Martha E. Pollack, President, Cornell University –88– Lee C. Bollinger, President, Columbia University Andrew Hamilton, President, New York University –New York City– –New York City– –89– Moreover,​ ​there’s​ ​the​ ​construction​ ​of​ ​the​ ​High​ ​Line​ ​and​ ​the​ ​restoration​ ​of​ ​Governor’s​ ​Island—a park​ ​paradise​ ​that​ ​is​ ​only​ ​minutes​ ​from​ ​Manhattan.​ ​Projects​ ​like​ ​these​ ​require​ ​true​ ​public-private partnerships,​ ​and​ ​the​ ​New​ ​York​ ​tech​ ​community​ ​stands​ ​ready​ ​to​ ​do​ ​our​ ​part. Mr.​ ​Jeff​ ​Bezos Founder​ ​and​ ​CEO Amazon.com 410​ ​Terry​ ​Avenue North​ ​Seattle,​ ​WA​ ​98109-5210 NYC​ ​is​ ​also​ ​well-positioned​ ​to​ ​attract​ ​the​ ​future​ ​of​ ​global​ ​talent.​ ​Generation​ ​Z,​ ​a​ ​larger​ ​workforce than​ ​both​ ​Baby​ ​Boomers​ ​and​ ​Millennials,​ ​cares​ ​far​ ​more​ ​about​ ​convenience,​ ​culture,​ ​and experience​ ​than​ ​previous​ ​generations.​ ​New​ ​York​ ​also​ ​continues​ ​to​ ​attract​ ​hundreds​ ​of thousands​ ​of​ ​new​ ​international​ ​residents​ ​each​ ​year​ ​that​ ​are​ ​foundational​ ​to​ ​the​ ​tech​ ​community at​ ​large. October​ ​11,​ ​2017 Dear​ ​Jeff: As​ ​entrepreneurs​ ​and​ ​investors​ ​who​ ​represent​ ​New​ ​York​ ​City’s​ ​robust​ ​and​ ​growing​ ​technology industry,​ ​we​ ​urge​ ​you​ ​to​ ​build​ ​HQ2​ ​in​ ​NYC.​ ​We​ ​say​ ​this​ ​from​ ​a​ ​place​ ​of​ ​experience,​ ​having chosen​ ​ourselves​ ​to​ ​build​ ​and​ ​grow​ ​companies​ ​here​ ​because​ ​we​ ​believe​ ​New​ ​York​ ​is​ ​special, with​ ​a​ ​diverse​ ​and​ ​supportive​ ​ecosystem,​ ​and​ ​a​ ​uniquely​ ​dynamic​ ​culture. New​ ​York​ ​City​ ​is​ ​a​ ​natural​ ​complement​ ​to​ ​Amazon's​ ​presence​ ​in​ ​Seattle—from​ ​South​ ​Lake Union​ ​to​ ​New​ ​York​ ​Harbor,​ ​there​ ​exists​ ​a​ ​strong,​ ​shared​ ​history​ ​of​ ​ingenuity,​ ​grit,​ ​and acceptance​ ​of​ ​new​ ​people​ ​and​ ​ideas.​ ​Both​ ​cities​ ​welcome​ ​adventurers,​ ​inventors,​ ​and​ ​an insatiable​ ​energy​ ​to​ ​create.​ ​In​ ​addition,​ ​New​ ​York​ ​City​ ​offers: ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● A​ ​global​ ​center​ ​for​ ​industries​ ​such​ ​as​ ​finance,​ ​media,​ ​fashion,​ ​and​ ​retail,​ ​boasting​ ​the highest​ ​concentration​ ​of​ ​Fortune​ ​500​ ​companies,​ ​thus​ e ​ nabling​ ​the​ ​cross-pollination​ ​of ideas,​ ​innovators,​ ​and​ ​talent. A​ ​front​ ​row​ ​seat​ ​to​ ​innovation,​ ​with​ ​more​ ​than​ ​6,000​ ​startups​ ​based​ ​here. A​ ​bustling​ ​tech​ ​industry​ ​that​ ​is​ ​now​ ​the​ ​city’s​ ​fastest-growing​ ​sector,​ ​with​ ​more​ ​than 7,000​ ​tech​ ​firms​ ​employing​ ​close​ ​to​ ​300,000​ ​workers. 24​ ​million​ ​square​ ​feet​ ​of​ ​new​ o ​ ffice​ ​space​ ​coming​ ​to​ ​market​ ​during​ ​the​ ​next​ ​five​ ​years. A​ ​significant​ ​commitment​ ​to​ ​teach​ ​computer​ ​science​ ​to​ ​all​ ​1.1​ ​million​ ​students​ ​in​ ​its school​ ​system​ ​by​ ​2025. A​ ​diverse​ ​workforce​ ​that​ ​speaks​ ​more​ ​than​ ​200​ ​languages​ ​across​ ​five​ ​boroughs. Proximity​ ​and​ ​convenience​ ​to​ ​international​ ​and​ ​emerging​ ​markets. Robust​ ​public​ ​transportation​ ​systems​ ​that​ ​are​ ​being​ ​expanded,​ ​revitalized,​ ​and​ ​upgraded throughout​ ​the​ ​city​ ​and​ ​state,​ ​including​ ​NYC​ ​Subway;​ ​NYC​ ​Ferry;​ ​Grand​ ​Central;​ ​Penn Station;​ ​JFK,​ ​LaGuardia,​ ​and​ ​Newark​ ​Airports;​ ​Citi​ ​Bike;​ ​and​ ​the​ ​proposed Brooklyn-Queens​ ​Connector​ ​(BQX). Access​ ​to​ ​1,200​ ​arts​ ​and​ ​cultural​ ​institutions—more​ ​than​ ​any​ ​other​ ​city​ ​in​ ​the​ ​country. Other​ ​factors​ ​set​ ​our​ ​city​ ​apart.​ ​First​ ​and​ ​foremost​ ​is​ ​its​ ​proven​ ​ability​ ​to​ ​accomplish​ ​audacious projects.​ ​In​ ​the​ ​past​ ​month,​ ​as​ ​you​ ​know,​ ​Cornell​ ​Tech​ ​launched​ ​its​ ​new​ ​2​ ​million​ ​square​ ​foot campus​ ​on​ ​Roosevelt​ ​Island,​ ​which​ ​took​ ​less​ ​than​ ​seven​ ​years​ ​to​ ​execute​ ​from​ ​idea​ ​to​ ​three free-standing​ ​buildings.​ ​NYC​ ​has​ ​also​ ​brilliantly​ ​revitalized​ ​former​ ​industrial​ ​spaces​ ​into​ ​homes for​ ​innovative​ ​tech,​ ​including​ ​Manhattan’s​ ​Hudson​ ​Yards​ ​and​ ​the​ ​Brooklyn​ ​Navy​ ​Yard. –90– –New York City– Many​ ​of​ ​us​ ​chose​ ​to​ ​be​ ​here​ ​for​ ​access​ ​to​ ​the​ ​arts​ ​and​ ​cultural​ ​institutions—not​ ​to​ ​mention​ ​the experience​ ​of​ ​walking​ ​the​ ​city’s​ ​sidewalks,​ ​which​ ​provide​ ​a​ ​constant​ ​source​ ​of​ ​creative inspiration,​ ​customer​ ​insight,​ ​and​ ​serendipity​ ​that​ ​only​ ​a​ ​city​ ​of​ ​New​ ​York’s​ ​scale​ ​can​ ​provide. But​ ​more​ ​than​ ​anything,​ ​we​ ​are​ ​all​ ​here​ ​because​ ​we​ ​love​ ​New​ ​York.​ ​This​ ​is​ ​a​ ​shared​ ​sentiment across​ ​our​ ​families,​ ​friends,​ ​colleagues,​ ​and​ ​the​ ​teams​ ​we’ve​ ​built.​ ​It’s​ ​the​ ​ultimate​ ​way​ ​to​ ​attract talent​ ​and​ ​to​ ​inspire​ ​the​ ​kind​ ​of​ ​creativity​ ​and​ ​dialogue​ ​that​ ​allows​ ​companies​ ​to​ ​thrive. Amazon​ ​already​ ​has​ ​a​ ​significant​ ​and​ ​growing​ ​NYC​ ​presence,​ ​so​ ​it​ ​will​ ​be​ ​no​ ​surprise​ ​when​ ​we tell​ ​you​ ​that,​ ​simply​ ​put,​ ​there​ ​is​ ​nowhere​ ​like​ ​New​ ​York. Sincerely, Tim​ ​Armstrong CEO Oath Scott​ ​Birnbaum Founder Red​ ​Sea​ ​Ventures Neil​ ​Capel Founder​ ​and​ ​Chairman Sailthru Arie​ ​Barendrecht CEO WiredScore Aaron​ ​N.​ ​Block Co-Founder​ ​and​ ​Managing Director MetaProp​ ​NYC Alexandra​ ​Cavoulacos Founder​ ​and​ ​COO The​ ​Muse Ayah​ ​Bdeir Founder​ ​and​ ​CEO littleBits Brian​ ​Berger Founder​ ​and​ ​CEO Mack​ ​Weldon Milena​ ​Berry Co-Founder​ ​and​ ​CEO PowerToFly –New York City– Neil​ ​Blumenthal Co-Founder​ ​and​ ​Co-CEO Warby​ ​Parker John​ ​Borthwick CEO betaworks Reza​ ​Chowdhury Founder​ ​and​ ​CEO AlleyWatch Daniel​ ​T​ ​Ciporin General​ ​Partner Canaan​ ​Partners Carter​ ​Cleveland Founder​ ​and​ ​CEO Artsy –91– Sebastian​ ​Cwilich Co-Founder,​ ​President, and​ ​COO Artsy Brian​ ​Distelburger Co-Founder Yext Nisha​ ​Dua Partner​ ​and​ ​Founder BBG​ ​Ventures, #BUILTBYGIRLS Mike​ ​Dudas CRO​ ​and​ ​Co-Founder Button Roger​ ​Ehrenberg Managing​ ​Partner IA​ ​Ventures Adam​ ​Enbar CEO Flatiron​ ​School Chris​ ​Fenster Founder​ ​and​ ​CEO Propeller​ ​Industries Beth​ ​Ferreira Managing​ ​Partner WME​ ​Ventures Dave​ ​Gilboa Co-Founder​ ​and​ ​Co-CEO Warby​ ​Parker Hilary​ ​Gosher Managing​ ​Director Insight​ ​Venture​ ​Partners –92– Erik​ ​K.​ ​Grimmelmann President NY​ ​Tech​ ​Alliance Mark​ ​Josephson CEO Bitly Ro​ ​Gupta Co-Founder​ ​and​ ​CEO CARMERA Nancy​ ​Lublin Founder​ ​and​ ​CEO Crisis​ ​Text​ ​Line Beth​ ​Haggerty Co-Founder​ ​and​ ​CEO Parity​ ​Partners Susan​ ​Lyne Managing​ ​Partner BBG​ ​Ventures David​ ​Hammer CEO Emissary Steve​ ​Martocci CEO​ ​and​ ​Co-Founder Splice Matt​ ​Harrigan Co-Founder​ ​and​ ​Managing Director Grand​ ​Central​ ​Tech Renata​ ​McGriff Founder​ ​and​ ​CEO CareMODERN​ ​Partners Inc. Jay​ ​Hass Partner RRE​ ​Ventures Kathryn​ ​Minshew Founder​ ​and​ ​CEO The​ ​Muse Cat​ ​Hernandez Partner Primary​ ​Venture​ ​Partners Charlie​ ​O'Donnell Partner Brooklyn​ ​Bridge​ ​Ventures David​ ​Hirsch Managing​ ​Partner Compound​ ​VC Brian​ ​O'Kelley CEO​ ​and​ ​Co-Founder AppNexus Brian​ ​Hirsch Managing​ ​Partner Tribeca​ ​Venture​ ​Partners Serkan​ ​Piantino CEO Spell Jalak​ ​Jobanputra Managing​ ​Partner Future\Perfect​ ​Ventures Nathan​ ​Richardson CEO TradeIt –New York City– David​ ​Rosenblatt CEO 1stdibs Reshma​ ​Saujani Founder​ ​and​ ​CEO Girls​ ​Who​ ​Code Ragy​ ​Thomas CEO Sprinklr Kevin​ ​Ryan Chairman​ ​and​ ​CEO Alleycorp Mario​ ​Schlosser CEO​ ​and​ ​Co-Founder Oscar​ ​Insurance Julie​ ​Samuels Executive​ ​Director Tech:NYC Brian​ ​Shoicket COO Uncubed Pedro​ ​Torres-Mackie Founder​ ​and​ ​Managing Director Quotidian​ ​Ventures John​ ​Saroff Chief​ ​Executive​ ​Officer Chartbeat Mike​ ​Steib Chief​ ​Executive​ ​Officer XO​ ​Group Amol​ ​Sarva CEO Knotel Paul​ ​Strachman Venture​ ​Partner Red​ ​Sea​ ​Ventures Matt​ ​Turck Managing​ ​Director FirstMark​ ​Capital Liz​ ​Wessel Co-Founder​ ​and​ ​CEO WayUp Fred​ ​Wilson Chairman​ ​and​ ​Partner Tech:NYC,​ ​USV Katharine​ ​Zaleski Co-Founder​ ​and​ ​President PowerToFly –New York City– –93– Jeff Bezos Chairman & CEO Amazon 410 Terry Avenue North Seattle, WA, 98109-5210 October 9, 2017 Dear Mr. Bezos, As the leaders of technology education nonprofits and innovation programs that represent our talent and entrepreneur development infrastructure, we urge you to build HQ2 in New York City. NYC is a major international hub for innovation that incubates new talent and businesses at scale. One of our greatest strengths is our robust educational system. NYC is home to more than 100 institutions of higher learning, the largest K-12 public school system in the country, and an extensive network of youth-serving educational nonprofit organizations. Together we are developing the next generation of entrepreneurs, inventors, and leaders. NYC is the perfect place for Amazon to build a resilient and relevant workforce that will identify opportunities in the new economy. New York City is a leader in the national K-12 computer science education movement. In 2015, Mayor de Blasio announced a 10-year, $81 million initiative called Computer Science for All (CS4All) that will enable all 1.1 million students in our school system to study CS across grades K-12. CS4All is by far the most ambitious effort in the country to educate students in CS. In just a few years, our city partners have trained nearly 1,000 teachers, and tens of thousands of students are currently participating in CS learning opportunities both in and out of school. Meaningful CS education for all students is critical to both building a diverse workforce to support our innovation-based economy and developing computational literacy for all students. Investment in technology training continues well beyond the city’s schools by more organizations devoted to this mission than anywhere in the country. We provide unique programs and opportunities for children throughout the five boroughs in partnership with employers, philanthropic organizations, and city government. And we strive to ensure that we close the gender and diversity gap in technology. With Girls who Code, the Lower East Side Girls Club, Black Girls Code, FIRST Robotics, nPower, Per Scholas, and CQ4, we are building a future where our next generation will prosper and create solutions informed by and responsive to the city’s vast and diverse trust of brain and experiences. The scale of NYC’s 120+ innovation-focused programs means that as this generation comes of age, it has an opportunity to build new products and start new businesses. With the scale of its talent and opportunities for innovators and entrepreneurs, NYC has fueled the transformation of startups to dominant market players and fed the exponential growth of tech giants like Facebook and Google. Amazon’s existing operations here are already tapping into this pool, so it will be no surprise that with headquarter-level presence here, you will be able to create the distinct and ambitious training and R&D partnerships you need from Day 1. We are thrilled to support the city’s proposal and look forward to building a partnership between Amazon and the country’s largest and most diverse urban workforce. Sincerely, Michael Preston, Executive Director, CSNYC Aviva, Markowicz, Managing Director, NUMA Andy Saldana, Director of Operations, NY Tech Alliance Bruce Lincoln, Co-Founder, Silicon Harlem Anoop Kansupada, Co-Founder, Founder’s Organization Chad Arroyo, Executive Director, Bunker Labs Ash Kaluarachchi, Co-Founder, StartEd Chike Ukaegbu, Founder and Managing Director, Startup 52 Avi Flombaum, Dean, Flatiron School Christina Lewis Halpern, Founder and Executive Director, All Star Code –94– –New York City– Christine Souffrant, Co-Founder, Global Startup Ecosystem KJ Singh, Director, Techstars NYC Daniel A. Rabuzzi, Executive Director, MOUSE Matt Harrigan, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Grand Central Tech David Belt, Co-Founder and CEO, New Labs Maurya Couvares, National Executive Director, ScriptEd, Inc. Debera Johnson, Executive Director, BK Accelerator Micah Kotch, Managing Director, Urban-X Devin Chasanoff, Developer Evangelist, SendGrid Michael Lapin, Founder, Beginex Einstein Ntim, Co-Founder, Global Startup Ecosystem Michael Zhu, CEO and Co-Founder, Lair East Fernando Alvarez, Director of Programming, Bunker Labs Michael Zigman, President and CEO, NYC FIRST Frances Simowitz, Program Designer, NUMA Grand Central Tech Molly Erman, VP Strategy and Communications, New Labs Iynna Halilou, Director of Programs, Yunus&Youth Jackie Trebilcock, Managing Director, New York Fashion Tech Lab Jason Wang, Executive Relations, Defy Ventures Nicole McKnight, Managing Director, Biolabs Harlem Jeffrey Hittner, Founder, Your Project X Scott Cohen, Co-Founder, New Labs Jennifer Litorja, Partner, JKC Ventures Shaun Johnson, Co-Founder, Startup Institute Joana Vicente, Executive Director, IFP Made in NY Media Center Shen Tong, Co-Founder, Food Future John Lynn, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Studio Project Tarika Barrett, VP of Programs, Girls Who Code John Matson, Managing Director, Voyager Tom O’Connell, Interim Executive Director, Code/Interactive Jukay Hsu, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, C4Q Tristan Bel, Executive Director, NY Designs Julia Kaganskiy, Director, New Museum Andrew Rasiej, Chairman, NY Tech Alliance Justin Hendrix, Managing Director, NYC Media Lab Jake Schwartz, CEO and Founder, General Assembly Kelly Richardson, Managing Director, NY, Per Scholas –New York City– –95–   October 16, 2017 In New York, you will find a community of super-achievers who hail from every country in the world. That is the reason we are here and it is what makes this the logical place for Amazon’s HQ2. We hope you agree. Mr. Jeff Bezos Founder and CEO Amazon.com Sincerely, Dear Jeff and Amazon Team: New York is the premier headquarters city for global companies. It is where traditional and new economies are converging, most dramatically in the retail and advertising industries. It is the clear choice for Amazon’s second headquarters. Amazon has already recognized the New York advantage with your decisions to locate several important business operations here. Establishing HQ2 in the city would complete Amazon’s transition from West Coast disruptor to mainstream leader in direct-to-consumer commerce. New York Metro is the world’s largest and most diverse regional economy. It has the country’s biggest concentration of discerning and demanding customers and clients. It offers co-location with companies that are industry leaders in financial and professional services, media and entertainment, fashion and retail, health and life sciences, education, design and development. It features unparalleled diversity of industry talent and institutional resources, all of which would enhance Amazon’s prodigious strengths and generate new opportunities to learn, grow, and partner. New York City and its surrounding communities represent a rapidly evolving ecosystem, with a broad spectrum of life style choices and prices, an excellent and affordable public transportation system, and an amazing array of cultural and recreational amenities. New York will challenge your company and its people to be more productive, outward looking and forward thinking than ever. A few facts about what makes New York best-suited for HQ2:       –96– The largest and most comprehensive air transport system in the U.S., serving over 350,000 passengers a day 97% of the city’s population lives within a quarter mile of public transit and 82% live within a 10-minute walk from a park 5.8 million residents with a bachelor’s degree or better in the metropolitan region —80% more than Los Angeles, 5 times more than Seattle, 7 times more than Denver and 3.5 times more than Boston 100 great universities that awarded 18,000+ post-secondary STEM degrees in 2016 2.3 million residents with graduate or professional degrees —more than the combined populations of Boston, Denver and Atlanta R&D spending by major academic institutions of $2.9 billion in 2016, complemented by over $1.6 billion in NIH grants 45% of New York’s workforce is foreign born, reflecting the city’s attraction to top global talent 47 Fortune 500 headquarters across multiple industries —more than any other city –New York City– Lee S. Ainslie, III, Managing Partner, Maverick Capital Candace K. Beinecke, Senior Partner, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP William H. Berkman, Managing Partner, Associated Partners, LP Michael W. Blair, Presiding Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP Jeff T. Blau, Chief Executive Officer, The Related Companies, L.P. Kathy Bloomgarden, Chief Executive Officer, Ruder Finn, Inc. Martin S. Burger, Chief Executive Officer, Silverstein Properties, Inc. Patrick J. Burke, President & CEO, HSBC Bank USA Kenneth I. Chenault, Chairman & CEO, American Express Company H. Rodgin Cohen, Senior Chairman, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Michael L. Corbat, Chief Executive Officer, Citigroup Inc. Kenneth D. Daly, President, National Grid New York Barry Diller, Chairman & Senior Executive, Expedia, Inc. and Chairman & Senior Executive, IAC William R. Dougherty, Chairman, Executive Committee, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP Douglas Durst, Chairman, Durst Organization Inc. Blair W. Effron, Co-Founder, Centerview Partners LLC Joel S. Ehrenkranz, Partner and Co-Founder, Ehrenkranz Partners L.P. Joseph R. Ficalora, President & CEO, New York Community Bancorp, Inc. Winston C. Fisher, Partner, Fisher Brothers Alan H. Fishman, Chairman, Ladder Capital Finance LLC Blair Fleming, Managing Director & Head, U.S. Investment Banking, RBC Capital Markets, LLC William E. Ford, Chief Executive Officer, General Atlantic LLC Paul Fribourg, Chairman & CEO, Continental Grain Company Eric J. Friedman, Executive Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Mark T. Gallogly, Co-Founder and Managing Principal, Centerbridge Partners MaryAnne Gilmartin, President & CEO, Forest City New York James P. Gorman, Chairman & CEO, Morgan Stanley Barry M. Gosin, Chief Executive Officer, Newmark Knight Frank James H. Herbert, II, Chairman & CEO (Founding), First Republic Bank Marc Holliday, President & CEO, SL Green Realty Corp. Kenneth M. Jacobs, Chairman & CEO, Lazard Ltd Harry Kargman, Founder & CEO, Kargo Brad S. Karp, Chair, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Jeremy M. Kroll, CEO & Co-Founder, K2 Intelligence William P. Lauder, Executive Chairman, The Estée Lauder Companies, Inc. Rochelle B. Lazarus, Chairman Emeritus, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide –New York City– –97– Martin Lipton, Senior Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Daniel Lubetzky, Founder & CEO, KIND Healthy Snacks Anthony E. Mann, President & CEO, E-J Electric Installation Co. Donald B. Marron, Chairman, Lightyear Capital John McAvoy, Chairman, President & CEO, Con Edison, Inc. Avner Mendelson, President & CEO, Bank Leumi USA Ken Moelis, Chairman and CEO, Moelis & Company Greg Mondre, Managing Partner & Managing Director, Silver Lake Deanna M. Mulligan, President & CEO, The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America JJ Ofer, Chief Executive Officer, Global Holdings Management Group (US) Inc. Jon Oringer, Founder & CEO, Shutterstock, Inc. John Paulson, President, Paulson & Co., Inc. Michael A. Peterson, Chief Executive Officer, Peterson Management, LLC Charles E. Phillips, Jr., Chief Executive Officer, Infor Deirdre Quinn, Co-Founder & CEO, Lafayette 148 New York Daniel L. Rashin, Co-President and CEO, Rockefeller Group International, Inc. Scott H. Rechler, Chairman & CEO, RXR Realty LLC James D. Robinson, III, Co-Founder & General Partner, RRE Ventures John Romeo, Managing Partner, Americas, Oliver Wyman Michael I. Roth, Chairman & CEO, Interpublic Group Kevin P. Ryan, Chairman & Founder, MongoDB, Zola, Workframe, Nomad Health Alexander Saint-Amand, Chief Executive Officer, GLG Robert A. Sauerberg, Jr., President & CEO, Condé Nast Alan D. Schnitzer, Chairman & CEO, The Travelers Companies, Inc. Alan D. Schwartz, Executive Chairman, Guggenheim Partners, LLC Stephen A. Schwarzman, Chairman, CEO & Co-Founder, Blackstone Tarek Sherif, Chairman & CEO, Medidata Solutions, Inc. Tad Smith, President & CEO, Sotheby's Jerry I. Speyer, Chairman, Tishman Speyer Robert K. Steel, Chief Executive Officer, Perella Weinberg Partners LP Michael Steib, President & CEO, XO Group Inc. Arthur P. Steinmetz, Chairman & CEO, OppenheimerFunds, Inc. Steven R. Swartz, President & CEO, Hearst Paul Taubman, Chairman & CEO, PJT Partners, LP Owen D. Thomas, Chief Executive Officer, Boston Properties Mary Ann Tighe, Chief Executive Officer, NY Tri-State Region, CBRE, Inc. Daniel R. Tishman, Vice Chairman, AECOM & Principal, Tishman Realty George H. Walker, Chairman & CEO, Neuberger Berman Group LLC Charles Weinstein, Chief Executive Officer, EisnerAmper LLP Kathryn S. Wylde, President & CEO, Partnership for New York City Brett Yormark, Chief Executive Officer, Barclays Center &, Brooklyn Nets Strauss Zelnick, Partner, ZMC Angela Sung Pinsky Executive Director Association for a Better New York 355 Lexington Avenue New York, NY 10017 t. 212.370.5800 f. 212.661.5877 www.abny.org October 13, 2017 Mr. Jeff Bezos Founder and CEO Amazon.com 410 Terry Avenue North Seattle, WA 98109-5210 Dear Mr. Bezos: For decades, ABNY has brought together New York City’s business, labor, non-profit and political leaders to focus on exploring and implementing initiatives that keep it moving forward. So, it should come as no surprise how proud we are to advocate for New York City as the perfect host for Amazon’s HQ2. The City’s tech and academic community, educated workforce, unparalleled diversity, collaborative work environment, and long history of ingenuity are just some of the ways that it complements Amazon’s values, and would truly be the perfect place to call home. Today, the City’s stakeholders and academic institutions are working in tandem to produce an educated workforce who will drive our 21st century economy forward. Just last month, we witnessed the ribbon cutting at Cornell Tech, a graduate school intended to attract the best minds to New York and serve as an incubator to the big ideas of tomorrow. Cornell Tech joins hundreds of New York higher education institutions churning out the type of leaders and big thinkers Amazon will need to continue its unmatched growth. Our colleges are exploring new ways to attract new and diverse individuals to the tech industry. For example, CUNY operates the WiTNY, a program to encourage women with little to no computer science background to become more active in the tech industry, and IN2NYC, the first municipal program designed to provide international entrepreneurs with access to visas to promote economic growth in the area. NYU’s Center for Urban Science & Progress is using applied data science and incubator space to encourage those in the tech field to help build smarter, more connected cities. In total, NYC schools are producing 4,500 computer science degrees each year. You will not find a stronger talent pool anywhere in the world. The City and its boroughs alone boast a workforce of 1.18 million workers with college degrees. But with our world-class transportation system, Amazon can tap into a much wider a pool of talent including 5.44 million eligible workers with a bachelor’s degree, and an outstanding 2.28 million with a graduate or doctoral degree. And we are adding tech jobs each year. According to the recently released The 2016 Tech Ecosystem report, New York City is home to 326,000 tech-related jobs, –98– –New York City– –New York City– –99– and that number stands to grow. New York does more than grow and nurture the best talent, it attracts talent from across the globe. New Yorkers speak more than 200 different languages, and hosts several neighborhoods and enclaves that often provide a comfortable, and familiar place to call home for many different cultures. The pool for diverse talent is vast and adds 82,500 international or out-ofstate college educated employees each year, including 39,600 additions to the work force with graduate degrees. Amazon can greatly benefit from the diversity of viewpoints and cultures that only New York City offers. There is no place better for a business to collaborate – New York is home to leaders in finance, advertising and digital strategy and retailing. It has the greatest concentration of Fortune 500 companies in the nation, and is eager to make Amazon one of its crown jewels. Silicon Alley and other areas of the City have burnished our reputation as a tech innovator, and Amazon can cement that reputation. And New York is always in search of the “next big thing.” The remote control, credit cards, air conditioning, and the pneumatic railway all got their start in New York City. There is nothing this City would enjoy more than serving as the birthplace to Amazon’s next big idea. We also know how much your employees will enjoy our City’s world-class food and entertainment, over 1,000 museums and cultural institutions, the stunning views of the New York City skyline, and our rich history. All while getting around and meeting critical business needs with the world’s largest mass transportation system, and access to international airports, major roadways and arteries, and global shipping ports. There is no place we would rather live and work, and we think your employees would agree. Finally, as the skyline confirms, this City can build anything, including Amazon’s next workplace. Our real estate industry is booming and our network of 188 culturally diverse neighborhoods have long served as a home away from home for residents from around the globe. Any of these neighborhoods are willing and able to extend New York’s unique brand of hospitality to Amazon’s offices and its employees. ABNY’s core mission is to make New York City a better place to live, work and visit, and serving as the home to Amazon 2HQ will achieve all three. We are ready, willing and able to assist in anyway needed as your next neighbor. Sincerely, Association for a Better New York 355 Lexington Avenue New York, NY 10017 –100– –New York City– –New York City– –101– –102– –New York City– –New York City– –103– October 12, 2017 Jeff Bezos President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board Amazon 410 Terry Avenue North Seattle, WA 98109-5210 Dear Mr. Bezos: On behalf of more than 21,000 JetBlue crewmembers, and particularly the 7,500 based in New York State, I am writing to encourage Amazon to select New York for its second headquarters. As New York’s Hometown AirlineTM and the only major passenger airline headquartered in New York, JetBlue has experienced firsthand the benefits New York has to offer. Today, JetBlue is a 17-year old company that has grown to be the sixth largest airline in the country. Much like Amazon, we still see ourselves as a startup and we aspire to maintain that ethos forever. Nearly eight years ago, JetBlue engaged in a comprehensive multi-state search – not unlike yours – to explore headquarters relocation but ultimately decided to remain in New York City. Our decision was driven by the region’s strengths – a strong and diverse talent pool and community, a business friendly climate, and broad access to bus, rail and, of course air travel. We are proud to call Long Island City in Queens, New York home. If Amazon chooses New York for its second headquarters, the company and its employees will have access to unparalleled air service around the country and the across the globe from local airports, including comprehensive service offered by JetBlue. With up to 232 daily departures from New York JFK, New York LaGuardia, Newark Liberty, Westchester County, and Newburgh/Stewart, JetBlue provides its award winning customer service on nonstop flights to 71 destinations in 20 countries. Service from New York JFK to Los Angeles and San Francisco – and Seattle beginning April 2018 – features JetBlue’s Mint Experience, offering a completely rethought design and a more personal approach to service, addressing the needs of the modern traveler with a premium experience priced as low as one-third the premium fares on legacy airlines. With more than 40 partner airlines, JetBlue provides seamless access to international destinations around the world. JetBlue’s 2010 decision to further invest and grow our presence – both at New York’s airports and as we moved our headquarters to create JetBlue’s Long Island City Support Center – was driven by the connection our company, our crewmembers and our customers share with New York. Every JetBlue crewmember, no matter where they work across our network, knows that we are New York’s Hometown AirlineTM. We live and work in New York, we contribute to and participate in community and charitable efforts in New York, and we play in New York just like our customers and yours. I’m confident that Amazon will have the same positive experience. As you know, Amazon and JetBlue have a broad marketing partnership in which Amazon has sponsored JetBlue’s Fly-Fi, the only free, high-speed inflight Wi-Fi offering in the United States, and JetBlue markets Amazon’s Video streaming service and Amazon’s original content inflight. We hope you will build on that partnership by selecting a JetBlue Focus City to build your second headquarters. Sincerely, Robin Hayes President and Chief Executive Officer –104– –New York City– –New York City– –105– –106– –New York City– –New York City– –107– CHARLES E. SCHUMER Democratic Leader NEW YORK WASHINGTON, DC 20510-3203 Jeff Bezos Chairman & CEO Amazon 410 Terry Avenue North Seattle, WA, 98109-5210 Dear Mr. Bezos: As a native New Yorker and proud representative of the people of this city, I urge Amazon to make New York City the home of its second corporate headquarters. Here in New York we never stop thinking ahead, and we never stop innovating. With 8.5 million residents, over 9,000 startups and more Fortune 500 companies than any other city in America, the energy of New York City is unparalleled. It is that energy that will help propel Amazon’s future growth and usher the company into its next chapter. We look forward to welcoming your continued growth here and helping you become a true New York institution. ELECTED OFFICIALS As the nation’s largest academic hub with 105 institutions of higher learning, we are able to offer the single most important resource a growing company requires: talent. The city’s growing, educated, and diverse workforce – the largest and most talented in North America – is the applicant pool you need to bring Amazon to the next level. There are more New Yorkers with a bachelor’s degree or above than there are residents of most cities. Those degree holders represent the ethnic and economic diversity of our city. Here in New York, we pride ourselves on the equity and excellence of our higher education system. The permanent extension of the American Opportunity Tax Credit (AOTC) which I authored in 2009, has helped make a college education accessible to young people citywide, including nearly 100,000 students at CUNY, one the largest and most diverse university systems in the nation. But it’s not enough for education to be affordable, it must also be applicable to the demands of the 21st century economy. That’s why last year U.S Senator Kristen Gillbrand and I committed nearly $7 million in federal funds for STEM education initiatives at New York City colleges. In New York, we connect talent with opportunity. Simply put, New York is the nation’s most prosperous city because of its infrastructure. Without it, commerce never could have thrived here. Our robust subway and bike-sharing systems, constantly improving bus system, and new five borough ferry service ensure that no matter which neighborhood Amazon decides to call home, it will be part of the fabric of the city. A federal commitment of $16 billion in direct infrastructure funding to New York State through the 2015 FAST Act ensures that we will continue to innovate with projects like Second Avenue Subway Phase 2, the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway Triple Cantilever, and Select Bus Service. Home to the nation’s largest international freight gateway for –108– –New York City– –New York City– –109– Jeff Bezos Chairman & CEO Amazon 410 Terry Avenue North Seattle, WA, 98109-5210 October 16, 2017 Dear Mr. Bezos: We, as a united body of elected officials, urge Amazon to make New York City the home of its second corporate headquarters. As the most dynamic and diverse city in the world, New York City will help propel Amazon’s future growth and kickstart an exciting new chapter in the company’s history. And we know that, no matter which city neighborhood it might choose for its new headquarters, Amazon will be a strong contributor to our civic and commercial life. Put simply, noplace has more to offer Amazon than New York City. Our five boroughs are hives of ingenuity—we have over 9,000 startups and more Fortune 500 companies than any other city in the nation. New York City firms receive more venture capital funding than nearly any other metro area. We are also the nation’s largest academic hub, with 105 institutions of higher learning and world-class teaching hospitals that are shaping the future of healthcare. air cargo and the destination of more than 60 million tourists a year, we’ve made great strides to upgrade our airports and remain a leading global transportation and freight hub. Like Amazon, our commitment to “being green” is more than a passing fad. Being a leader in sustainability isn’t just the right thing to do; it is imperative to creating stronger, more resilient communities and fortifying our position as an economic powerhouse. We came face to face with this reality in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy in 2012, which is why I fought for a $60 billion relief bill. The bill provided the largest injection of federal dollars into New York infrastructure since the New Deal, with nearly a third of these funds supporting infrastructure like transportation systems, hospitals, public housing and coastlines, all while making us greener and more resilient. Over the years, New York City has been a port of hope for millions of immigrants from more than 150 counties seeking refuge and opportunity. We remain an example of the creativity, innovation, and forward-thinking that is possible in this country. Like Amazon, we prize energy and new ideas, and we will never stop thinking of ourselves as a startup. We remain nimble, adaptable, and bold. Come join us so we can make history together. Sincerely, For these reasons and others, New York City is able to offer the single most important resource a growing company requires: talent. New Yorkers are an unbelievably skilled group. Amazon will be able to source 50,000 new employees immediately from the city’s growing, educated, and diverse workforce, the largest and most talented in North America. Of the 8.5 million New Yorkers, 3.3 million are immigrants hailing from 150 countries. There are more New Yorkers with a bachelor’s degree or above than in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington, D.C., and Atlanta combined. We are home to industry leaders in tech, law, media, and medicine. And we are making sure that the next generation of New Yorkers is prepared for the 21st century economy by integrating computer science education at every level of the academic pipeline. Moreover, New York City continues to grow: by 2040, we will be home to 9 million people eager to share their skills and build their futures here. What else separates New York City from the competition? • Accessibility: We are the heart of the Boston-Washington corridor, the most heavily urbanized region of the country. New York City is already Amazon’s largest market for Prime, and an early adopter market for services like Prime Now. By putting HQ2 in New York City, the company will have direct access to 52 million residents of our metro area. And with three regional international airports, the entire world is only a plane ride away. • Affordability: New York City is making unprecedented investments in housing, childcare, and transportation to make it more affordable for everyone. Since 2014, the city has financed over 75,000 affordable units of housing, significant progress towards our 200,000-unit 10-year goal. Our housing options are diverse and span the five boroughs and the metropolitan region. We have all types and price points for junior engineers and senior executives alike. Moreover, New York City is one of the few places that offer high-quality universal, full-day pre-kindergarten for every 4-year-old. And our world-class public transportation system helps residents save thousands of dollars each year. • Infrastructure: With the largest subway and bike-sharing systems in the world, a first-rate bus system, and a new ferry service, New York City has the transportation infrastructure Amazon needs to thrive. We also are the most walkable city in the country, and have miles of greenways and bike lanes. New York is upgrading its airports to remain a leading global transportation and freight hub. By 2020, all three of New York’s airports will have undergone extensive renovations and enhancements. To date, more than $20 billion has been committed to these projects. Charles E. Schumer United States Senate • Sustainability: Like Amazon, New York City is committed to being a leader in sustainability. New Yorkers know being green isn’t just the right thing to do; it also improves the city’s economic output and creates stronger, more resilient communities. In September 2014, the city committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80 percent by 2050, with the goal of curbing the most devastating effects of climate change. The following year, we put forth a plan to ensure we were setting a global standard for urban growth and sustainability. Called OneNYC, the plan includes a roadmap for shoring up our transportation infrastructure and making our buildings more energy efficient. –110– –New York City– –New York City– –111– No city embodies the American traditions of innovation and creativity quite like New York City. It has transformed from a Dutch settlement, to the nation’s first capital, to a booming industrial center. It became a port of hope for millions of immigrants looking for a better life, and a model for urban revitalization. From Broadway, the Bronx Zoo and the Brooklyn Bridge, to Citi Field and the shores of Staten Island, New York City is a place where history is made every day. Our tradition of reinvention matches yours, and we invite you to join us in writing our next chapters together. NYS Senator Andrew J. Lanza NYS Senator Velmanette Montgomery Sincerely, NYS Assembly Member N. Nick Perry NYS Senator Brad Hoylman Public Advocate Letitia James NYS Assembly Member Jaime R. Williams Representative Gregory Meeks City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito NYS Senator Jose M. Serrano NYS Assembly Member Michael Cusick Representative Joseph Crowley NYS Senator Brian Benjamin Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer NYS Assembly Member Carmen N. De La Rosa Representative Yvette Clarke NYS Senator Marisol Alcantara Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams NYS Assembly Member Dan Quart Representative Hakeem Jeffries NYS Senator Gustavo Rivera Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. NYS Assembly Member Michael Blake Representative Grace Meng NYS Assembly Member Andrew Hevesi Queens Borough President Melinda Katz NYS Assembly Member Mark Gjonaj Representative Daniel Donovan Jr. NYS Assembly Member Clyde Vanel Staten Island Borough President James Oddo NYS Assembly Member Victor M. Pichardo Representative Adriano Espaillat Representative Eliot Engel NYS Assembly Member Joseph R. Lentol NYS Assembly Member Catherine Nolan NYS Senator James Sanders NYS Assembly Member Luis R. Sepúlveda NYS Assembly Member Rodneyse Bichotte Representative Jose Serrano NYS Senator Michael Gianaris City Council Majority Leader Jimmy Van Bramer NYS Assembly Member Robert C. Carroll Representative Jerrold Nadler NYS Senator Roxanne J. Persaud Council Member Margaret S. Chin NYS Assembly Member Steven Cymbrowitz Representative Carolyn Maloney NYS Senator Jesse Hamilton Council Member Daniel R. Garodnick NYS Assembly Member Pamela Harris Representative Nydia Velázquez –112– NYS Senator Kevin S. Parker Council Member Ben Kallos –New York City– –New York City– –113– Council Member Helen Rosenthal Council Member I. Daneek Miller Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez Council Member Karen Koslowitz Council Member Andrew Cohen Council Member Elizabeth S. Crowley Council Member James Vacca Council Member Fernando Cabrera Council Member Ritchie J. Torres Council Member Vanessa L. Gibson Dear Mr. Bezos: Council Member Antonio Reynoso The Midtown West district extends approximately from Sixth Avenue to the Hudson River, from 31st Street to 37th Street — 36 blocks covering more than 200 acres. Across its primary sub districts — Penn Plaza and Hudson Yards — Midtown West contains a multitude of existing buildings and development sites that would meet Amazon’s near-term and long-term space requirements in new high-rise glass and steel towers, century-old buildings featuring limestone and granite, and everything in between. Council Member Mathieu Eugene Council Member Anabel Palma Council Member Jumaane D. Williams Council Member Costa Constantinides As elected officials who represent the Midtown West area of Manhattan at the state and local levels, we write to express our support for the City of New York’s proposal that Amazon locate its proposed HQ2 in this district that sits at the very heart of New York City. Council Member Robert E. Cornegy Jr. Council Member Vincent Gentile Council Member Peter Koo Jeff Bezos President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of the Board Amazon.com 410 Terry Avenue North Seattle, WA 98109-5210 Council Member Stephen T. Levin Council Member Rafael Salamanca Jr. Council Member Paul Vallone October 13, 2017 In choosing to locate in Midtown West, Amazon would find itself at the center of the strongest transportation network in the region, and in the entire nation. The greater New York City metropolitan area has almost 20 million people, many of whom can rely on direct mass transit access to the district via Penn Station, subways, buses and ferries. Midtown West also is at the core of Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor service with additional direct rail links to the region’s major airports allowing unmatched access to talent, markets and partners. Council Member Chaim M. Deutsh Once in Midtown West, Amazon’s employees would find a neighborhood rich in amenities: dramatic open spaces such as the Hudson River Park and the High Line; Madison Square Garden, Broadway, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and museums; and of course the vibrant street life of Manhattan. We trust you and your colleagues are well aware of the many attractions of this area, given that Amazon already has signed leases totaling some 800,000 square feet in two buildings along the greater 34th Street corridor. Council Member Deborah Rose Council Member Joseph C. Borelli We are confident that New York City can suggest multiple suitable neighborhoods for Amazon’s HQ2 but we would be delighted to welcome your continued expansion in this area. Council Member Barry Grodenchik Very truly yours, Gale Brewer Manhattan Borough President –114– –New York City– –New York City– Brad Hoylman State Senator Richard N. Gottfried Assembly Member –115– October 13, 2017 Jeff Bezos President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of the Board Amazon 410 Terry Avenue North Seattle, WA 98109-5210 Amazon to join us as we continue to grow our neighborhood. We are anxious to welcome Amazon to a community that is, at once, fully-formed and continuing its evolution, thereby offering Amazon the opportunity to help shape its future. We look forward to working together with you, the City, the State, and local stakeholders in the coming months to bring Amazon HQ2 to Long Island City, Queens. Dear Mr. Bezos: We are the elected officials representing Long Island City, Queens, and we write to express our strong support for Long Island City as home for Amazon’s second corporate headquarters. As outlined in the proposal from the City and State, Long Island City offers a unique combination of existing buildings, ground-up, shovel-ready development sites, and longer-term expansion opportunities—all in one of the most culturally vibrant, well-connected, and fastest growing neighborhoods in the USA. We are confident that what the neighborhood has to offer well exceeds Amazon’s requirements. Thank you for your consideration. We write to you today because we know that Long Island City would be the perfect location for Amazon. The area’s incredible access to transit, including subways, commuter rail, buses, bike sharing, and ferries, as well as its very close proximity to New York City’s two major airports, position it as a true regional hub, with superb connections to local and regional housing markets and the unmatched talent base that lives in it. Long Island City is also already a truly mixed-use neighborhood, combining commercial, residential, tech, industrial, cultural and educational uses. Together, all of these assets make Long Island City among the most sought after communities in New York City and one of the most desirable in the United States. Joseph Crowley Member of Congress, NY-14 United States House of Representatives Carolyn B. Maloney Member of Congress, NY-12 United States House of Representatives Michael Gianaris New York State Senator 12th District Catherine Nolan New York State Assembly 37th District Melinda Katz President Borough of Queens Jimmy Van Bramer Majority Leader, Chair of Cultural Affairs & Libraries The Council of the City of New York 26th District We are very proud that our neighborhood is, in a world of increasing homogenization, one that is truly mixed-use and diverse, offering a vibrant business sector with leading companies across a range of industries, beautiful parks, amazing restaurants, spectacular views and robust cultural assets. Others claim it, but our residents actually do come from every walk of life, with our home borough, Queens, recognized as the most diverse county in the nation. Additionally, we are surrounded by some of the world’s leading institutions of higher education, including, literally a stone’s throw away, the beautiful new Cornell-Tech campus on Roosevelt Island, home to Cornell’s world-class engineering school and Israel’s renowned Technion University. Sincerely, As we hope our signatures on this letter will show, Long Island City also benefits from an uncommonly strong collaboration among varied stakeholders—elected officials, residents, property owners, artists, educators and researchers, and real estate developers. Together, we are aligned and clear: Amazon HQ2 belongs in Long Island City! In our neighborhood, Amazon will be able to select from an almost limitless array of real estate options (high-rise, low-rise, brand-new buildings, adaptive reuse projects, privately owned, publicly owned, etc.). Our neighborhood further offers more than enough available space to allow Amazon to create an entire campus on a scale similar to its Seattle campus, either on the iconic East River waterfront or in the transit-rich downtown area or both—all within an easy and pleasant 15-minute walking radius. It is our opinion that one of the great strengths of Long Island City is that we think boldly and creatively. We welcome the opportunity to further strengthen the area as a regional commercial hub, and invite –116– –New York City– –New York City– –117– October 13, 2017 Mr. Jeffrey Bezos Chief Executive Officer President and Chair, Board of Directors Amazon.com, Inc. 410 Terry Avenue North Seattle, WA 98109 Brooklyn – A Prime Location for Amazon HQ2 Dear President Bezos, We are excited that Amazon is seeking a second headquarters in North America and believe that Brooklyn is the only location that makes sense for Amazon HQ2. Brooklyn’s diverse and highly skilled workforce, as well as its established cultural scene, are beyond compare. Brooklyn’s population of nearly 2.7 million represents a breadth of diversity and talent that is truly unique. We speak more than 90 languages and represent over 130 countries. As a result, reinvention and innovation are at the core of our being. Whether by bike share, bus, subway, ferry, rail or plane we have the physical infrastructure and mass transit to easily move Amazon’s employees to and from work, into Manhattan and connect to our region and the world. Open space, stunning waterfront views and astonishing greenspaces abound throughout the borough. We have more than 100,000 university students in Brooklyn who choose to be here because of the accessibility to jobs and the excellence of our institutions of higher learning. Our quality of life is second-to-none, with world-class arts and culture, unbeatable culinary variety and excellence, healthy workplace initiatives, and unparalleled transit access to all of the natural beauty our region has to offer. Brooklyn is the living embodiment of the United Nations and hosts 13 million visitors annually from across the country and around the world, and this number grows every year. The diverse talent that Amazon needs to continue to thrive is right here in Brooklyn, USA. We welcome Amazon with open arms! Sincerely, –118– –New York City– –New York City– –119– Eric L. Adams Brooklyn Borough President Stephen T. Levin NYC Council, 33rd District Laurie A. Cumbo NYC Council, 35th District Chaim M. Deutsch NYC Council, 48th District Helene E. Weinstein NYS Assembly, 41st District Rodneyse Bichotte NYS Assembly, 42nd District William Colton NYS Assembly, 47th District Jaime R. Williams NYS Assembly, 59th District Martin Malavé Dilan NYS Senate, 18th District Jo Anne Simon NYS Assembly, 52nd District Roxanne J. Persaud NYS Senate, 19th District Jesse Hamilton NYS Senate 20th District Peter J. Abbate, Jr. NYS Assembly, 49th District Martin J. Golden NYS Senate, 22nd District Joseph R. Lentol NYS Assembly, 50th District Velmanette Montgomery NYS Senate, 25th District Robert E. Cornegy Jr. NYC Council, 36th District Alan N. Maisel NYC Council, 46th District Mark Treyger NYC Council, 47th District –120– Robert C. Carroll NYS Assembly, 44th District Steven Cymbrowitz NYS Assembly, 45th District Pamela Harris NYS Assembly, 46th District Félix W. Ortiz NYS Assembly, 51st District Walter T. Mosley NYS Assembly, 57th District N. Nick Perry NYS Assembly, 58th District –New York City– –New York City– –121– –122– –New York City– –New York City– –123– LONG ISLAND Private & Confidential –Long Island– –125– EXHIBIT 3 –126– –Long Island– –Long Island– –127– EXHIBIT 3 –128– EXHIBIT 4 –Long Island– –Long Island– –129– EXHIBIT 5 –130– –Long Island– –Long Island– –131– –132– –Long Island– –Long Island– –133– –134– –Long Island– –Long Island– –135– –136– –Long Island– –Long Island– –137– –138– –Long Island– –Long Island– –139– EXHIBIT 6 –140– –Long Island– –Long Island– –141– EXHIBIT 7 –142– –Long Island– –Long Island– –143– –144– –Long Island– –Long Island– –145– –146– –Long Island– –Long Island– –147– –148– –Long Island– –Long Island– –149– LOWER HUDSON VALLEY Private & Confidential –Lower Hudson Valley– –151– Our Site for the Symposium IRG Pearl River Campus 401 N. Middletown Rd., Pearl River NY –153– –Lower Hudson Valley– –Lower Hudson Valley– –152– EXHIBIT 9 EXHIBIT 8 Pfizer: Pharmaceu-cal manufacturer, research & development group November 2015 announced plan to sell off 207 acres of their 550 acres of land along with 15 buildings for reuse California based IRG, a Na-onal Real Estate Investment & development group, is handling the transi-onal pieces of the property. Their focus: Adap1ve Reuse – retail, office, industrial & commercial Our Site for the Symposium IRG Pearl River Campus 401 N. Middletown Rd., Pearl River NY –155– –Lower Hudson Valley– –Lower Hudson Valley– –154– Muddy Creek –156– –Lower Hudson Valley– –Lower Hudson Valley– –157– –158– –Lower Hudson Valley– –Lower Hudson Valley– –159– Great facility for research, internships & workplace experience Image from Urban Electric Power –161– –Lower Hudson Valley– –Lower Hudson Valley– –160– PharmaceuGcal Accomplishments Ernest Lederle 1.  1906 - Diphtheria anGtoxins 2.  1915 Smallpox (1 million doses/week) 3.  1941 – Typhoid Vaccine 4.  1941-45 – Largest blood plasma plant in the world 5.  1948 – First broad spectrum anGbioGc – Aureomycin 6.  1954 – Polio vaccine 7.  1955 – Methotrexate to treat cancer of the blood, bone, lung, breast, head, and neck & arthriGs 8.  1961 – TB Tine – tubercular skin test 9.  1971 – Minocin - anGbioGc 10. 1978 – Centrum - vitamin 11. 2000 -Prevnar 7, 13 and Mylotarg – vaccines to prevent pneumococcal bacteria which leads to pneumococcal disease, the leading cause of vaccine preventable death worldwide in children under 5 yrs. 12. 2006 – Tygacil - anGbioGc Building on site legacy 1.  1906 - Ernest Lederle established the Lederle AnGtoxin Laboratories on 99 acres in Pearl River. Ernest Lederle was the Chief Chemist of the NYC Department of Health, and twice NY Health Commissioner. During his tenure he curtailed the spread of diphtheria in the late 19th century and used this new locaGon in Rockland to produce diphtheria anGtoxins and other formulas for both humans animal use. 2.  1930 became just Lederle Laboratories a division of the American Cyanamid Company, and became a leader of research, tesGng and manufacturing of anGtoxins, vaccines, anGbioGcs, vitamins. 3.  World War II was a major supplier of blood plasma 4.  1994 became American Home Products (AHP) ~3000 employees 5.  2002 AHP becomes Wyeth, who called it Wyeth-Lederle, then Wyeth-Ayerst. 6.  2009 sold to Pfizer –163– –Lower Hudson Valley– –Lower Hudson Valley– –162– EXHIBIT 10 Summary of Key Points 1.  Pfizer will conGnue to own 25 acres, 3 buildings and 600 jobs. It will conGnue pharmaceuGcal manufacturing, research and development work on the site and will hold onto some undeveloped land. 2.  IRG has purchased the balance of the site which will be reimagined with a focus on science, technology, educaGon and retain. PotenGal new uses of shopping, dining, meeGng spaces, educaGonal venues. 3.  There are exisGng & commitments from businesses on this site at the moment including: 1.  Protein Sciences – developing safer & more effecGve vaccines 2.  Anellotech –researching sustainable bio-sourced chemicals 3.  Urban Electric Power - Manufactures rechargeable zincmanganese dioxide baheries staGonary energy storage applicaGons. Safe, low cost alternaGve to Lead-Acid & Lithium-ion baheries. 4.  RCC InnovaGon Center - a combinaGon technology incubator, Start-Up NY campus, Super 3D PrinGng SMARTT lab and a Business InnovaGon Mall with a group informaGon desk. –165– –Lower Hudson Valley– –Lower Hudson Valley– –164– EXHIBIT 11 –166– –Lower Hudson Valley– –Lower Hudson Valley– –167– –168– –Lower Hudson Valley– –Lower Hudson Valley– –169– –170– –Lower Hudson Valley– –Lower Hudson Valley– –171– October 16, 2017 Mr. George Oros Director Economic Development County of Westchester 148 Martine Avenue White Plains, New York 10601 Dear Mr. Oros: Pace University fully supports Westchester County’s proposal to make the future second headquarters of Amazon here in Westchester County. Westchester County is the ideal location for Amazon’s second headquarters and Pace University wholeheartedly supports the County’s efforts to attract Amazon here. We enthusiastically join with our partners in government, education, business and the civic community in this endeavor. Our county is well-suited to respond to Amazon’s requirements, among them a future pipeline of talented workers supported by Westchester’s strong ecosystem of institutions of higher education. Pace University is proud of our students, many of whom are first in their family to go to college, who are pursuing bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral, and law degrees at Pace University’s campuses in the Village of Pleasantville and in the City of White Plains. We stand willing and able to work collaboratively with the Westchester County Office of Economic Development, and Amazon, to ensure that Pace University’s curriculum will meet Amazon’s future and continued need. Sincerely, Vanessa J. Herman Assistant Vice President Pace University –172– –Lower Hudson Valley– –Lower Hudson Valley– –173– –174– –Lower Hudson Valley– –Lower Hudson Valley– –175– APPENDIX NEW YORK METRO AREA AMAZON HQ2 RFP RESPONSE Private & Confidential Printed in New York City 100% post-consumer recycled paper FSC certified